The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System
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The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System
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Re: The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System
#2The age of plausibly buying a legacy is gone, so these vanity projects inspire more cynicism than anything else.
Re: The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System
#3The age of plausibly buying a legacy is gone, so these vanity projects inspire more cynicism than anything else.
Well, this is better than what Bezos is using his surplus money for.
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Re: The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System
#5The age of plausibly buying a legacy is gone, so these vanity projects inspire more cynicism than anything else.
I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?
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Re: The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System
#7The age of plausibly buying a legacy is gone, so these vanity projects inspire more cynicism than anything else.
I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?
> Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants.
A guy has woken up to the fact that he'll be remembered as a villian and is trying to whitewash his reputation.
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It's a shame they're taking advice from leading astro project groups about the globe rather than yourself.
Still, I'm suprised to hear from you that the Lazuli Space Observatory will apparently operate from ground level.
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But that's objectively not true unless you're just trolling or being sarcastic? The cost and reach of ground based systems still has a considerable amount of use, still have many projects of those types ongoing. There's been a ton of great work on things like adaptive optics and laser guides have been excellent breakthroughs in extending that reach.
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From the website:
“The Lazuli Space Observatory is a 3-meter–class space-based astronomical facility designed for rapid-response observations and precision astrophysics across optical and near-infrared wavelengths.”
And we wall should be happy he doesn’t want to put a swarm of micro telescopes into the sky to mimic his approach for the ground based telescopes.
The last thing astronomy needs is even more satellite constellations polluting the night sky.