Talk:Overwhelmingly Large Telescope

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:If built, it would be the largest optical telescope ever constructed. It has been claimed that OWL would have a greater mirror surface area than that of all previous professional telescopes combined.
Really? I'm pretty sure that's entirely wrong. As it's been needing a citation for about 3 months I'm removing it.Larryisgood (talk) 19:26, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

message: I just stumbled over a funny TRIVIA on :
"If budgetary considerations will force the final OWL to be smaller than 100-m, it may eventually mean Originally Was Larger ..."
Shall we add it in a ==Trivia== section? Greetings, --Zeptomoon 21:15, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Owl2.jpg

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Owllogo.gif

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:OWL modulardesign.jpg

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:OWL optdesign.jpg

message: What precisely is it going to be overwhelming?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.71.6.167 (talk) 00:09, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Hopefully any investigation into the opportunity cost. <snark> But seriously, is it going to help us find threatening meteors and comets? Chrisrus (talk) 06:33, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obvious Question 

message: "Also, there appears to be some inconsistency as to the actual construction costs of the OWL, with some estimating its cost an order of magnitude higher (EELT currently at €1.3 billion,[6] equivalent to around $1.6 billion, scaled using D^2.77 proportionality assuming a 100 meter diameter yields $21 billion).[7]" - this seems to be original research, since the source doesn't mention the OWL at all. The author just did some math himself. --2003:6:6134:3563:606F:2600:2A24:ACCD (talk) 22:22, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  OR