It would be a great engineering accomplishment, ...................> Whatever the current motivation - this would seem to be very superior to the HST - it would serve as a logical first step in a very long term colonization program..................>
'Professor Andrew Cameron, an astronomer at University of St Andrews, said: "If they live up to the design goal, we will be able to detect Earth-like planets tens of light years away."
[quote=Mike Kremer]
Yes agreed, it would be a tremendous engineering accomplishment.
But would it really do any better than the Kepler Telescope?. (which incidentally is about to start photographing, having blown off its dust cover the other day)
The Euro-Telescopes big advantage is that it will out-last Kepler, by fifty times,... if its ever built?.
Then again, if they do hurry up and build it, it might be put to good use, by focussing upon the Moon and Mars Astronauts, as they set up their blowup rubber-metallized habitation unit, for colonisation purposes. Likewise for Mars
Then we could all actually see the astronauts walking about, and riding their Mooncar. Prime realtime TV for the masses.
