XPost: sci.space.policy   
   From: simberg.interglobal@org.trash.retro.com   
      
   On 20 Feb 2005 15:24:38 -0800, in a place far, far away,   
   alexterrell@yahoo.com made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a   
   way as to indicate that:   
      
   >Just seen some pictures of Hubble, and The "Very Large Telescope"   
   >(original name) in Chile. It made me think.   
   >   
   >With a reasonable space based industry, moon mining, metal working,   
   >aluminium and glass production, precision engineering, how big an   
   >optical telescope could be built in zero-g?   
   >   
   >What are the limits? Could a 100m diameter optical telescope be built?   
      
   Possibly, but there'd be little point, since you can get equivalent   
   resolution with multiple-mirror systems.   
      
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