I don't think 6 million dollars was spent on all that work!! NO way!! Use your sense, the scientists needed to to feed their families and maintain their homes and cars too right during the great depression...who are they trying to fool? 6 million dollars back then would be like 2.5 Billion dollars in todays money!!
6 million dollars in 1928 was an enormous amount of money! I'm retroactively impressed that the government was willing to shell out that amount of money, through the Great Depression and WWII, for the pursuit of knowledge.
Damn, so I guess I have to take back my admiration then. The Rockefeller Foundation did some amazing things for the time. I live in Spain and one of our longest standing centers for physical chemistry (Instituto Rocasolano) was built and equipped due to a grant by the Rockefeller foundation in 1926. They gave us a gift that has lasted for generations.
I live in agauga which the palomar obserbatory is in sight of my house (sorry if I misspeled somthing)
xxgarshxxnunezxx 4 months ago
I don't think 6 million dollars was spent on all that work!! NO way!! Use your sense, the scientists needed to to feed their families and maintain their homes and cars too right during the great depression...who are they trying to fool? 6 million dollars back then would be like 2.5 Billion dollars in todays money!!
jackmarsilva 5 months ago
Nice job!
I love visiting the Hale Telescope. It indeed is "The Perfect Machine"!
OboeCanAm 2 years ago
This is so beautiful it made me shed a tear.
MilletGtr 2 years ago
6 million dollars in 1928 was an enormous amount of money! I'm retroactively impressed that the government was willing to shell out that amount of money, through the Great Depression and WWII, for the pursuit of knowledge.
LynxChan 2 years ago
The project wasn't funded by the government. The $ 6 million was given by the Rockefeller Foundation to Caltech, a privately owned university.
palomarskyguy 2 years ago
Damn, so I guess I have to take back my admiration then. The Rockefeller Foundation did some amazing things for the time. I live in Spain and one of our longest standing centers for physical chemistry (Instituto Rocasolano) was built and equipped due to a grant by the Rockefeller foundation in 1926. They gave us a gift that has lasted for generations.
LynxChan 2 years ago
Still significant though.
applecounty 2 years ago
thanks for the vid
DaUnd3rmindzz 2 years ago
it must be awsome looking up at the sky, on a daily basis, I would love doing that.. just to see the stars
kdunbar37 2 years ago 3
Nice but around the world in 80 telescopes wasn't supposed to be a live cast? whatever five stars
gargoloso 2 years ago