How could this be the largest telescope given that the 40m E-ELT was approved last year?

Okay, what I meant was: what has a single quasar got to do with all this? It was not an appropriate image to use in this context.

Come on, UCLan? Really, a quasar is 4 Gly long?

Not that it necessarily validates the finding, but this paper has appeared in a peer-reviewed journal published by the Geological Society of America.

What you're referring to is interferometry. I came across a news in the last few months that someone somewhere making suggestions along similar lines. As has already been said, space-based observation is comparatively costlier both to build (and send it up) and difficult to maintain or upgrade compared to ground-based installations.

Who says Pi or 22/7 don't have an exact values? 22/7 is mileading because it's a rational number while Pi is not.

Astronomy isn't exactly about pretty pictures, you know! But even then, you can make pretty pictures out of data from other bands of the EM spectrum, like the AC mentioned earlier.

At least once a day.

Finally! I can now fiddle with Python at work. No, wait, it doesn't run on IE6, does it?

It is illegal for US companies to pay bribes abroad.

I wasn't aware that it was O.K. for US companies to be involved in bribery locally.

That observation never quite sat with me though. It works for an ant - incapable of reason, but swap out the situation for a PERSON sitting on another circular surface (like, say, a planet), and we have figured out quite readily that our surface is unending but finite - it's obvious - go in another direction and you end up circling back.

The analogy has nothing to do with the intelligence of the creatures. I agree that ants on a balloon are no different than humans on Earth, so the appropriate analogy will involve imaginary two-dimensional creatures on the two-dimensional surface of the balloon (similar to three-dimensional humans roaming about in a universe with three spatial dimensions). You should consider the surface as it is and not as being embedded in a higher-dimension space, i.e. you should neither consider the volume occupied by the balloon nor the space surrounding it.

3 out of 7: http://www.isro.org/launchvehicles/gslv/gslv.aspx

I did not have problems with accessing Wikipedia, ever. However, the suggestions feature in the search box for Wikipedia as well as Google stopped working ever since 0.2.2 (for me, anyway). 0.9.0 has not rectified this situation.

I appreciate your input.

I can't speak for people from a hypothetical universe and about what their naming conventions would be, but I can tell you that, given the known laws, the "anti-matter" universe would behave in exactly the same way as ours does.