[HN Gopher] The Big Fringe Telescope
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       The Big Fringe Telescope
        
       Author : belter
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2024-08-26 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | rich_sasha wrote:
       | Big Fringe Telescope, or BFT.
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       | Not sure if it's a joke...
        
       | slwvx wrote:
       | If I understand Table 4 [1] correctly, they estimate the cost to
       | be $28.5M, which looks inexpensive for a cutting-edge telescope
       | (BTW, the new html papers on arxiv are nice).
       | 
       | Phys.org [2] has further details.
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       | [1] https://arxiv.org/html/2408.01386v1#S5
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       | [2] https://phys.org/news/2024-08-inexpensive-kilometer-
       | telescop...
        
       | aaron695 wrote:
       | How would a kilometer-scale telescope get past ooga booga
       | indigenous groups in Western society? Some sacred valley,
       | mountain or rock in the way?
       | 
       | If you can get past HN's self harming Sinophobia (at least real
       | racists have the IQ to do it for their own benefit) the Five-
       | hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope is cool -
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-hundred-meter_Aperture_Sp...
        
         | BillSaysThis wrote:
         | "ooga booga indigenous groups"
         | 
         | Whoa, wtaf dude?!?!
        
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