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CNN posted a story yesterday announcing Google’s plans to launch a universal search engine within the next decade. Wehn I say universal, I meant it. Apparently the system would work a lot like Google maps, bringing a high-tech observatory to every laptop.
The project is estimated to cost around $350 million, and well, it’s awesome. Now instead of looking up directions to the nearest Red Lobster, can get directions to Mars!
So how does this nifty contraption work? According to Popular Science:
One thousand times as powerful as previous telescopes, the LSST will survey the entire sky every three nights using a wide-angle mirror and a three-billion-pixel digital camera.
As the telescope rotates on its base, the camera’s 15-second exposures take in an area 50 times as large as the full moon. Software will compile three-dimensional imagery to produce time-lapse digital “movies” of the universe.”
The reason I felt like this was so noteworthy, besides the fact that everyone will no be able to track the meteor that ends us all, is that the technology sounded a lot like Deja Vu’s time machine before they, by “fluke” could bend the continuum. Hmm.
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