Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The Search For Aliens Is About To Get More Intense


 By Meera Dolasia on 10/09/2011 
Dogo News 
http://www.dogonews.com/2011/10/9/the-search-for-aliens-is-about-to-get-more-intense

An "uber sophisticated telescope, innovatively dubbed - European Extremely Large Telescope or E-ELT" will help us see if there is any form of life on the other planets. It was made by "European Southern Observatory," a association of 15 European countries and Brazil, the telescope costs over $1.5 billion USD and should be ready by 2020. Construction will not begin for at least a couple of years. The telescope will have a 40-meter (131 ft.) mirror put together from over 1,000 individual hexagonal parts. The "'World's Biggest Eye On The Sky'" will be 3,060 meter tall (10,000 ft.) It has enough power to find any very old galaxies. 

I think that this is very amazing what they are doing and i think they will definitely find something there, might not be aliens, but it sure will be something. And about that telescope, on this picture, well it does look big, but I wonder how big it is really when you come in front of it. I believe that it is big enough for hundreds of people to go inside it at the same time. Eve if I don't believe in aliens, I am still exited for them finding out more about our universe. It is fun to know about other living creatures just like us, we are also creatures, on other planets.

2 comments:

  1. Nice post! I like the words you used. Though the title is a bit scary!

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  2. i agree with Francesca. How much more intense? Do you ever wonder if we are alone? The link to the article is needed here. This ELT will be very useful in studying the universe. I would love to be able to see what it sees.

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