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  • Two things:

    Why no mention of the Arecibo radio telescope? Its a Fkin Large (radio) Telescope.

    And to the Hikers out there.. Largest optical telescope beeing 42meters across.

  • I say we name it the BFT

    The Big Freakin Telescope

  • i had a crazy idea of a telescope that atracts light (pull light faster than the speed of light it can be made out of black

  • I'm never gonna find an astronomer to date if they're that obsessed about size

  • ''an absolutely shit lode of light''

  • @steampunsniper he said shed :-/

  • Wow I think its safe to say size does matter what do you think

  • Name it "The Big Light Bucket"

  • 'overwhelning large telescope', 'extremely large telescope', large hadron collider...

    I love physics, but they pretty much waste no time at naming stuff

  • You could build a far larger telescope on the Moon, with the resources from the Moon! :P

  • Press 2 for onmonmonmonmnomnomn

  • sexy ass, beautiful face, typically untypical scientist. also has a nice smile. but yeah, nice ass.

  • Must resist. Must resist! MUST RESIST! CAN'T RESIST! Megan you have an incredible ass.

  • Did anyone else hear what I did at 5:45? I rewatched a few times and at first I thought it was dubbed in. But Dr. Merrifield really does says "a shitload of light". Mirrors are brilliant.

  • Did anyone else hear what I did at 5:47? I rewatched a few times and at first I thought it was dubbed in. But Dr. Merrifield really does says "a shitload of light". Mirrors are brilliant.

  • @PDL07to11 Heh, I thought he was going to say that, he says "a shedload of light".

  • Darling, I like your voice!

  • I want a telescope so big - its capable of going all the way round and looking at the back of your head :)

  • do you have to join the que with the biggest ego to use this thing?

  • almost as big as me

  • hahahaha "a shitload of light"

  • I wanna have date with astronomy girl :].

  • @mrdexter86 Listen friend, just because the Professional ASTRONOMER happens to be a Feemale in this Case , she is NOT going to Date "NOBODY". She is Dated to her Giant Astronomical Telescopes and Large Format C.C.D. Cameras. Grow up you people , you've been through School, well you CANNOT Date your Teachers, They are Professional Scientists NOT Dating partners. I thought you would have figured that out , What do you people learn in School Anyway????

  • @Jules7892

    I didn't think about her, I think about for example some astronomy female student in my age ;)

  • @Jules7892 lol calm jules. It's not like scientists don't have significant others once in while. :P

    why are you getting worked up over a compliment someone said. If there had been an attractive male scientist in here for some female to write that she wanted to date him, it's the same thing. Her intelligence is attractive is all

  • @Jules7892 What are you talking about?

    Do you actually believe that crap that all scientists are autistic with no personality or friends?

  • @Jules7892 Ahahahah!! Please..

  • even their bikes have computerz o.o ....

  • what are they looking for a way to spy on God and the angels or something?

  • @iorixs shut the fuck up

  • @ped200014 it's a modern tower of babel

  • @iorixs you're a modern tower of babble

  • build a telescope on moon

  • Talk to me when you reach 1km diametres and can see what spock is having for breakfast at alpha centauri. lol

  • Like she said, BIGGER IS BETTER!

  • Owls can see in he dark, they have big eyes that should say something

  • I'd hate to be at the focal point of that mirror when it happens to aim at the sun.

  • @joshig1983 guess you wouldnt hate it for long... :>

  • can u point it at the moon, so we can see there is no flag finally.

  • ...did...aah...did he say shit?

  • I like the name Extremely Large Telescope! I always get a kick out of the name of the Very Large Array, as well. The fact that they didn't give it some impossible-to-remember scientific name is pretty awesome.

  • @ElveeKaye Over-Whelmingly Large Telescope sounds cool too!! OWL!!

  • THANKS! I like all your videos they are very interesting. My favorites folder seems to be filling with this as well as those from "Periodic Videos". I hope that you also do a video about the James Web Telescope

  • What about the FLT

    The Fuc........ Flipping Large Telescope!

  • why does it have to be a single mirror? why not use dosens or hundreds of smaller mirrors and make the originally planned 100 meter telescope. Imagine if the mirror get's cracked! the whole project is ruined while if there would be more of them only the specific broken part would need to be changed

  • They will start to build a telescope that is 64 meters i think in Chile

  • man FUCK TELISCOPES!

  • @duffmanofmusic Hell Ya

    FUCK PARKING LOTS

    FUCK PEOPLE WITH BROWN HAIR

    FUCK BRITISH PEOPLE

    AND FUCK THOSE MOTHER FUCKEN TELISCOPES!!!

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  • dont look at the sun. lol 

  • What about the LBT (Large Binocular Telescope)?

  • Wow beauty and brains! Is she single?

  • This is going to be amazing!

  • thers a kiwi bird yey im a new zealander / kiwi its our national bird

  • TBH... Seeing the other galaxies and other  stars across the universe is not enough. i wish we actually had the technology to actually TRAVEL to those places...

  • going to chile to see the telescope is one of my dreams..

  • This new telescope sounds just a bit intriguing...! I have enjoyed Astronomy ever since I was a young Boy in Bartlesville, Ok. Car Sagan was probably the most impressive one indiviual involved in Science and Astronomy I have experienced. I could sit and listen to him discuss the stars and the universe for hours.

    I have been involved with Seti@Home for a number of years.....Still "Listening"....lol.

    Best of luck with your endevours....

  • where?? in Chile???.... AGAIN???

  • imagine this telescope staring the sun and burning your eye lol!

  • @Baraquiel62

    heh yeah, sunlight focused onto a retina sized patch through this system would be hot enough to melt steel.

  • It's called theory of relativity... If you watch Susan Boyle then this then yes, she is hot, unfortunately I just been watching Dido so she ain't! All relative.

  • "hubble had to be fixed thanks to an accident in the measuring..."

    bullshit. tell us the truth!

    the whole planet uses the metric system, except for: the united states, liberia, and burma. of course they built the hubble telescope mostly using the metric system. but some US engineers (scientists already use the metric system, even in the US) were involved with the mirror, and they messed it up with their inches and failed to get the distances to be compatible with the metric telescope.

  • 5:47 S&%* load of light! YUP I heard it! =P NTW That's alot of light!

  • did he say were gonna be able to capture a shitload of light? lol

  • Ha ha ha! Rather sadly, he didn't say shitload of light, which would have been excellent. he actually said shedload. It's a slang UK expression. I've always taken it to be like truckload, only in the amusing units of the shed. Ahh,  How we laughed.

  • haha i see.

    science professors or teachers are quite vulgar where im from xD

  • @misterflip20 :D

    Shedload its a slang

    But yeah it sound like shitload :DDDD

  • she is hot, who is she?

  • Wow!! Great telescope! With this European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) observe and detect extrasolar planets and other objects will be much easier! Just incredible!

  • Wow!!

  • Incredible; 42 Meters. ESO telescope Another Great European Project !! Go Europa !!!

  • 5:46 lolololol

  • gives a face to "hot with brains". :D i could learn quantum physics and keep learning and learning and learning.

  • mirrors are great but bikes rule (and come on isn't the vernacular and image better if you have a shitload rather than a shedload?)

  • Wow, just imagine if they actually did build that 100 m telescope!

  • That's gonna be a BIG eye on the Sky.

  • yeah my grandad went to the telescopes in hawii and he had to park his car quite far away from the top of the mountain and walk to the top beacuse up there it is supposed to be one of the less polluted place in the world and u arent allowed to drive up there because of the emitions

  • Could you do a video on how exactly a telescope works. There's a few issues when it comes to telescopes - magnification of an image, how does a big mirror exactly enable us to see whats in front of it, how are the images recorded, passed into an image sensor. Great video, so interesting but I'm still kind of wondering what how exactly they work.

  • 1/50th of a human hair is bigger than a fraction of the wavelength of (visible) light.

  • WOW.then,light does actually have pixels(represented by photon rays).so,that means we can 't infinitely resolve light!and that mean,it is only possible to enlarge/zoom a vision until we see at least a photon!something smaller than photon will never be seen! i m dizzy ={

  • except photons aren't really little dots like a pixel they are used to describe the particle properties of light. just small packets of energy

  • Well, if there's a small number of photons, you can just take the photograph for a long time. The Hubble deep field photographs took months I think. A photon will not limit the resolution at all, until you get to the extremely small, like an optical microscope will have limits. That's why an electron microscope is better than a light microscope (electron has a smaller wavelength).

  • wow all this complicated scientific stuff makes me feel smart! hehe

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  • shedload

  • SHED-load

  • i always like how they give the most complex things very simple names

  • why not to place it in deserted place? you can place solar panels around it what will consume the sunlight to charge it? Lolers, what about other technologies what are used to watch the sky?

  • "Shedload"!

  • The choice of telescopes is to assemble mirror array modules that look like honeycomb arrays, each trip to space add another module to make it bigger, in space you don't have to worry about weight, space array telescopes could be made hundreds of miles in diameter or larger.

  • 42 meters?....hmmm. 42- that truly would be the answer to life, the universe, and everything given the potential for this ELT!

    :)

  • 5:45 LMFAO

  • The biggest single mirror was produced by USSR engineers - diameter: 15m. It was made of single block of glass weighting several tonnes. Unfortunatelly during the cooling process which took about a year (think about how much energy and effort they had put into that) it broke due to internal tensions of glass... great loss. Another cool idea for a mirror is to take liquid mercury and rotate it on a disc. The centrifugal force would make a parabolic concavity serving as mirror.

  • @LechuCzechu: Enjoyed that reply... thanks!

  • @LechuCzechu Well if it broke, or cracked before being used, the it was a failure.  Simply put they did not produce anything usable. Therefore the Russians produced nothing except propaganda which you apparently swallowed. Silly Git!

  • @lynnakramer

    It wasn't propaganda, I've learned this form a professor on my university who worked, at that time, in Russia and saw whole process himself. Yes it was a failure but certainly their intensions were sincere - they just wanted to make a telescope. USA also had many failures and many programes used only as publicity stunts. And please, don't call me names...

  • Photons splatting in the roof of my house after travelling for billions of years... hmm, poor photons. Never thought of it that way. ;-)

    But what I would like to now: How many photons from outside the solar system (or even better from outside the milky way) hit a square meter every second? I really like the notion of "absorbing" photons created in stars billions of lightyears away!

  • Photons from the cosmic background radiation are probably splatting on you right now, The cool afterglow of the Big Bang

  • "Going to collect an absolute shitload of light."

  • Shed load I think

  • Love the astronomy video guys keep them comming!

  • Long live Chile and it's telescopes!

  • call me an immature teenager ,but she's HOT !!!

  • Yeah.

  • perhaps hot isn't the right word

  • i wholeheartedly agree

  • @solomsolomol immature teenager

  • @solomsolomol meh

  • a shitload of light. hahahaha

  • Man... cleaning those massive telescope mittors must be very expensive and very tedious.

  • Ø! :D

  • Showoff!:P

  • Hmmm, 42 meters ehh? Well I guess it won't take us seven and a half million years to get the answer then ;)

  • Why am I so helpless before astronomy girl? What spell have you cast upon me you siren of physical science?

  • damn, your right!

  • Ø =D Funny

  • a "shedload" of light eh?...

    I would like to visit that telescope when its operating! :D

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  • I'm afraid I don't believe that the ELT, with its 42m diameter mirror, will ever be built. Dr Gray and her colleagues are more than welcome to prove me wrong by taking me there when it's ready. PM me when it's done. ;-)

    To put this into perspective, I have a cheap Ø 114mm telescope and I still get blown away by what I can see through that.

  • lol @ 5:45

  • "Collect a shitload of light" ^^

  • Overwhelmingly exciting!

    ;-)

  • LOL, "...is going to collect an absolute shitload of light..."

  • @sniperofbuffalo: He actually said shedload... but means the same thing, I suspect!

  • Ha ha

  • Lol i wonder if any of these fellows have children and if so what they called them.. ? VLB Very large baby ? lol

  • thank you for your videos! this one is really good

  • First (sorta)

  • Thanks to Dr Gray for lending us her holiday/work snaps for this video!!!

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