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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 03/04/2005 :  11:26:56  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4319061.stm

96 jupiter masses, 16% larger volume...

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini

Ricky
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Posted - 03/05/2005 :  01:02:06   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
I'm simpily amazed that they call them:

"Very Large Telescope"s

Is there no better name?

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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Starman
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Sweden
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Posted - 03/07/2005 :  03:18:08   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Starman a Private Message
Mighty Star Gazers?
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 03/07/2005 :  06:22:46   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send BigPapaSmurf a Private Message
Only one is called the VLT

"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History

"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini
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