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Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope 171

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday January 05, 2008 @11:18AM from the he's-still-a-nerd-people dept.

coondoggie writes "Bill Gates and the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences this week donated $30 million to an ambitious telescope that researchers say will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights — something never done before. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project got $20 million from the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and $10 million from Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates. Expected to see its "first light" in 2014, the 8.4-meter LSST will survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its 3 billion-pixel digital camera, probing the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy and opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move. With the telescope scientists will be able to quickly find Earth-threatening asteroids and exploding stars called supernovas and will be able to map out 100 billion galaxies, according to researchers."

Comment Re:talk about over protective (Score 1) 533

by Jatstelnet on Monday July 31, 2006 @11:31AM (#15817498) Attached to: Big Mother Is Watching

I agree that "If you feel the need to control what your kid eats in high school through a system like this, you've allready failed as a parent." is entirely wrong but by high school students should have some control,at least, and some maturity to use that control.
Also while "If you let your children eat junk food for lunch, you've allready [sic] failed as a parent" is also wrong it is foolish to believe that if a parent allows their child to eat junk food and never educates their child their child will probably make bad choices later on.

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