NASA contemplates turning a moon crater into a giant, powerful telescope
The far side of the moon would be a great place to stare out into the cosmos.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It will be costly to taxpayers. Congress did, after construction started, kill the Super Conducting Super Collider in Texas.
Other nations’ taxpayers then funded the smaller Large Hadron Collider in Europe, and despite ambiguously-worded claims in press releases to popular magazines, the LHC did not find the Higgs particle. The LHC staff announced that with upgrades it may try again in 2032 or so. Will the upgrades be funded? Stay tuned.
yvilletom
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Apr 9, 2020
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Are you saying CERN is getting it wrong ?
@FearlessFly Have you never heard of taxpayer-funded government boondoggles?
Look up boondoggle in Wikipedia, or in a dictionary.
@yvilletom . . . 'boondogle' is a different topic. You commented "the LHC did not find the Higgs particle". Are you saying CERN got it wrong ?
@FearlessFly boondoggle is not a different topic. NASA and CERN spend billions of taxpayer DOLLARS or EUROS on them. For instance, here in America, LIGO.
I’m sure you know what “...despite ambiguously-worded claims in press releases to popular magazines, ....” means.
@yvilletom I"m not disputing "ambiguously-worded claims in press releases"
Did you mean the press was saying "the LHC did not find the Higgs particle" ?
Your "it may try again in 2032 or so" comment seems to indicate that you think that the Higgs has not yet been found. If so, show some evidence of that claim.
@FearlessFly Read carefully, “...despite ambiguously-worded claims in press releases to popular magazines, the LHC did not find the Higgs particle.”
Do not pick one word, such as “press” from the first ten words.
@yvilletom Read carefully
Did you mean the press releases to popular magazines were saying "the LHC did not find the Higgs particle" ?
Or are YOU personally saying "the LHC did not find the Higgs particle" ?
I'm asking you to clearly answer that issue one way or the other.
@FearlessFly In your first question you omitted the word “despite”.
“...despite claims in press releases to popular magazines,....”
I wrote above that, “The LHC staff announced that with upgrades it may try again in 2032 or so.”
SpaceX Starship will be good for delivering parts, supplies and people to the Moon, around 100 tons and 100 people at a time.
The Chinese have built an Aricebo-like telescope but newer tech that is bigger, and has better direction pointing. Idk if one on the Moon can exceed or match all those specs, considering maintenance and construction challenges on the Moon, but whatever they can make will have unmatched radio silence. Pictures to the edge of the visible universe would be incredible, especially ones also using the SKA and/or other Earth bound radio telescopes.
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