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Old 10-11-2006
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HOLY COW!
I could dream on for days of what it would be like just to look through any of those scopes in those Links!
Imagine what would happen if you bounced the light of the mid-day Sun, off of either of those, and placed a chicken at its Focal Point!
Fried Chicken Anyone?
At that size, do they employ something, to make up for atmospheric difraction?
They are both so huge! Im amazed that the glass, even though its segmented, can hold its shape under its own weight! I would not even contemplate about collimating something like that manually! How do they keep Monsters like that, at Thermal EQ?
Liquid Nitrogen? Alot of AC?
that is so impressive!
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