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has assembling a mega telescope at the space station been seriously considered?<br /><br />for example a telescope (or a set of them) around 30 meters in diameter or larger , composed of many modules, assembled in space walks by the astronauts<br />wouldn't that be so cost effective and easier to accomplish soon? vs. a 100 meter diameter<br />scope on the non existent moon base?<br /> (each mirrormodule or spinning liquid tile or whatever has<br /> its independent fine tuning motor wired to the central computer) each tile module<br />is therefore replaceable and able to be fine tuned in live field operation<br /> <br />the same goes for any kind of large dish antenna...<br />you name it, infrared, radio wave, etc. it can all be put together by<br />the spacewalkers. <br /><br /><br />people already live up there,<br />they already do work outdoors,<br />isn't the next simple step to give them the kits to put together?<br /><br /> then we could even build say a few of<br />them and use them all synergistically a module the size of the shuttle payload could probably<br />be made to control it (or them) and even navigate them too...build 2 or 3 of them, each up to a miilion miles away from the other<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>