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<blockquote data-quote="Number47" data-source="post: 478374" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>There is one scenario for a corporation to make money establishing a colony offworld. By selling the dream of making it in a new frontier to poor saps (like me) here. The corporation doesn't have to actually produce <em>anything</em> viable in the new colony. Because the expense would be so high, transport might be given by lottery. I know I would invest at least a buck a week for the opportunity to live on Mars. Then the poor saps (like me) are pretty much on their own trying to scrape by to achieve self-sufficiency and find something to export in order to survive.</p><p></p><p>Somebody mentioned that optical telescopes will improve faster than spacetravel. I've had an idea for some time now, I wanna see if you think it's feasible. You know the Very Large Array in New Mexico? It uses a bunch of smaller radio telescopes arranged to form a "virtual" radio telescope of immense size. I want to have the same concept applied to optical telescopes on a grand scale. Imagine a series of space telescopes like the Hubble orbiting equidistant from each other around the Sun. Averaging the result of them all focusing on the same object should result in astounding resolution. Not to mention we can finally get some decent parallax reading and actually determine the distance to some things. Do you guys thing it's workable? How many would it take? For a smaller scale, would it work using just the Lagrange points?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Number47, post: 478374, member: 84"] There is one scenario for a corporation to make money establishing a colony offworld. By selling the dream of making it in a new frontier to poor saps (like me) here. The corporation doesn't have to actually produce [i]anything[/i] viable in the new colony. Because the expense would be so high, transport might be given by lottery. I know I would invest at least a buck a week for the opportunity to live on Mars. Then the poor saps (like me) are pretty much on their own trying to scrape by to achieve self-sufficiency and find something to export in order to survive. Somebody mentioned that optical telescopes will improve faster than spacetravel. I've had an idea for some time now, I wanna see if you think it's feasible. You know the Very Large Array in New Mexico? It uses a bunch of smaller radio telescopes arranged to form a "virtual" radio telescope of immense size. I want to have the same concept applied to optical telescopes on a grand scale. Imagine a series of space telescopes like the Hubble orbiting equidistant from each other around the Sun. Averaging the result of them all focusing on the same object should result in astounding resolution. Not to mention we can finally get some decent parallax reading and actually determine the distance to some things. Do you guys thing it's workable? How many would it take? For a smaller scale, would it work using just the Lagrange points? [/QUOTE]
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