Mercury mirrors, almost a century old idea. (Score 1)

Gee, an old idea surfaced again, just on a bigger scale. If the posters would hold back their self ego-centrism and dig up in a local library they will find out that an AMERICAN physisist (since /. seems to be obsessed with americans most of the time) Robert Wood created such a telescope back in 1930s and was using it quite successfuly for some time. Look for an ancient book 'Modern Wizard' by William Seabrook in antique book stores. It is rather strange to see the history repeat itself so precisely.