TMT Work to Resume Says Ige!

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

There have been a number of comments on this thread and other threads suggesting the TMT is basically obsolete even before it's built. It has been stated there are bigger telescopes planned in Chile. We will build space telescopes. Even dark side of the moon telescopes, etc.

There really are no obsolete telescopes. Every functioning telescope on Mauna Kea could be put to good use. Viewing time is at a premium, and if one person isn't using the equipment, someone else will.

Case in point, the discovery / confirmation of the Big Bang Theory in 1960. Bell Labs constructed a listening device for NASA, but NASA abandoned it for better technology. Two scientists asked, and were given permission to use the equipment for a project they had planned.

Here is the true story of how those two men, with access to an unused giant sound horn full of pigeons, discovered the Big Bang. As told drunk. (Skip the first 35 seconds if you prefer not to hear a monologue about various reproductive organs):

http://io9.com/watch-drunk-history-slur-...1728251075