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The Man in the Mirror

March 29, 2010 - 3:20 pm - by Richard Fernandez
Don51
2010-03-30 06:10:06

Optical based astronomy has largely been hampered by the planet’s atmosphere. It’s weather and currents distort the light. Thus, so many observatories were built on high peaks to rise above much of the natural turbulence. Hubble is the ultimate high ground. There is only one Hubble. However, taking advantage of even more modern technology, astronomy has adapted the computer. Light from a faint astronomical object is reflected from a computer-controlled deformable mirror, which removes the optical distortions caused by turbulence in the earth’s atmosphere. It’s a lot cheaper than establishing and sustaining a Hubble. Millions of computers of the internet are now acting as a ‘deformable’ mirror to correct the Man Made distortions of our political atmosphere in which we breath and live.