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Stuart LaForge
Jun 5, 2026, 1:22:56 AM (12 days ago) Jun 5
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The Vera C. Rubin telescope is amazing. 8.4 meter mirror and the largest
digital camera ever built at 3.2 Gigapixels. When they flipped it on for
its first light test, it detected and catalogued a swarm of 989 new
asteroids that had never been seen before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmISbL4yC4
And it was a just a one night test and not part of its actual mission to
survey and catalogue the entire night sky - all night, every night. I
will sleep better knowing the Vera C. Rubin is on the job watching over
us. And the combination of Vera C. Rubin and the JWST enable optical
SETI in ways that Carl Sagan and Francis Drake could only dream of.
Stuart LaForge
digital camera ever built at 3.2 Gigapixels. When they flipped it on for
its first light test, it detected and catalogued a swarm of 989 new
asteroids that had never been seen before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmISbL4yC4
And it was a just a one night test and not part of its actual mission to
survey and catalogue the entire night sky - all night, every night. I
will sleep better knowing the Vera C. Rubin is on the job watching over
us. And the combination of Vera C. Rubin and the JWST enable optical
SETI in ways that Carl Sagan and Francis Drake could only dream of.
Stuart LaForge
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