The Planck Space Telescope

[jaime105]

i see the cylinder shape....holy crap:o

[BibleWinScienceFail]

a nice shot. the art of God is incredible.

[MarkoMaddy]

and still with another piece of evidence we live on and believe on the stranglehold that is christianity in todays society

[thenetaficionado2]

Reminds me of the BIS Daedalus Project.

Although they are quite unrelated.

[fordwel5]

What's a "Planck Space"?

[TheBigBADaZz]

@fordwel5 I think "planck space" refers to the smallest unit of space that is physically possible.

[benjaminjean1984]

@TheBigBADaZz or it is just called a singularity.

[TheBigBADaZz]

@benjaminjean1984 I might be wrong but from what i know the concept of a singularity is that it tends to go infinitely small like a mathematical point.In the case of black hole with infinite gravitational pull in the singularity.While "planck space" is limited in size for normal regions and normal phenomenons of space,in extreme objects like black holes in think it differs(they change matter,space,time drastically).Again i might be wrong but thats what i know on the issue.

[benjaminjean1984]

@TheBigBADaZz yes however Planck epoch refers to the period just after a singularity from zero to approximately 10−43 seconds thats what this machine is measuring? awesome stuff so glad to be alive to understand something so big:)

[benjaminjean1984]

@TheBigBADaZz not just any singularity but rather our big bang...This machine is measuring the explosion @ planck space or epoch which is that time zero to10, to the -43 seconds after our big bang.

[Digeridude]

These comments make me want to kill myself.

[Berialavrenti]

@Digeridude

thats not so cool dude!

you should buy a digeridoo so you can continue living as the digeridude!

p.s may the force of max planck be with you!

[celticlune]

Why? Whats the point? Why not use telescopes already in space? If the old still works then you should continue to use it!

[IncoherentRussian]

@celticlune

The point of the planck space telescope is to take a higher resolution image of the microwave background radiation. Other telescopes can't do it because they don't have the correct hardware.

[rngpro]

quite useless

[AlyoshkaCA]

i wonder how long that will take...

[NuMetal2001]

@AlyoshkaCA the website says 6 months

[AlyoshkaCA]

@NuMetal2001 thats sounds very reasonable lets hope it works

[mjlynch712]

15th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[asdfgoogle]

Cool.

[TheSuperRunner]

That has to be great for making stellar maps!

[bmd900]

I wonder if the guys at wired know what the fuck they are talking about or just posting some random shit..

[Eequality72521]

nope, they haven't a clue

[SpongiformSpongee]

@bmd900 Just random shit, their magazine is full of it. xD teehee

[Nebel305]

Hahahaha me too.

[ZidaneFTW]

awesome

[jamiah93]

That...was...AMAZING!

[myshoescramp]

sweet

[CuprousChloride]

cool

[m7oda10q]

cool

[pubtor]

wow

[druidkg]

nice

[doffen5000]

nice