July 3rd, 2004, 10:08 PM
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Re: OT: Hubble rulez !
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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
...The burden of launch weight for any space telescope makes it very hard to compete with this innovation.
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But the base distance between two or more telescopes in space allows the interferometer type experiments to detect Earth size planets across the Galaxy ... 
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