Wait a minute. I seem to have lost my playbook. I thought it was Bushes fault?

You missed the part where that 80M brought their total investment up to 1B to cover those 17,000 homes. That makes the cost per home 59K. Which is more that an order of magnitude more than you .54 T number.

So your sayin they are the Sam Kinniman of science.

I wouldn't really consider this data as findings so much as creations of data. Funny how the created data only always points in one direction. Whenever I collect real data, sometimes it is higher than what I expect, sometimes it is lower.

Actually, It's only a fortune if you exchange it for Real goods and services now.

Let me introduce you to the rules of dilition. I think lake Ontario will be OK.

Ok question, why would anyone buy from these retailers at 5x the price? Why would not everyone just go to the state store and get their TV for 1/5 the cost? How do you explain this?

I think you are narrowing in on the problem of free healthcare. You needed two vists to doctors before the age of 18. I assume that you didn't develop any life altering diseases in that time. Question, if you would have have a proper free healthcare plan, how many un-necessary visits to the doctor or procedures would you or your parents have used. Whenever you hide the true price of something that something tends to get overused and the resources get allocated improperly.

Shortest animal in a bar joke ever. So this baby seal walks into this club.

Okay remove military professional and insert Climate scientist. Is your argument still the same?

You can get chicks with titles. Wow what was I thinking?

Yep field de-rotators are an option. Sometimes the right option, but they are an added drive system and can be pesky. I would say in this case a much better option than trying to build an equatorial mount for an instrument this large.

Mine also gets the 26 mpg up to about 80 mph. Afraid to average more than this for long stretches due to the high cost of citations.

No not really the same thing at all. Both strategies will form an image but the physics are different. The mirror reflects the light via a paraboloid and thus forms the image without any chromatic abberation. For the lens to form an image the light must pass through the glass and because the speed of light in the glass depends on the wavelenght, the refractive index is slightly different for every wavelenght and the therefore the lens will show significant chromatic abberation. This is assuming that it is a single lens. Multiple element lens are possible to design with different refractive indicies that will minimize this effect but they are much more complex and expensive. Oh by the way the largest refractor ever built is the Yerkes telescope which is only 40" in diameter. Anything larger would distort under it's own weight.

Even with tracking capability, which isn't that hard for a dobsonion, alta-azimuth mounts like this suffer from field rotation effects and exposures longer than about 30 seconds are not ideal. But you can take many 30 second exposures and stack them to give you something resembling a much longer exposure. The stacking de-rotates the images and aligns them.