A few weeks ago, I wrote about how Captain Kirk got sent into space on the Blue Origin spacecraft. I mentioned that Blue Origin owner Jeff Bezos could have done something else with his 5.5 billion dollar 10 minute vacation spending spree to help space exploration. Here is a great example of something he could have done. Funded the construction of a Cosmic Telescope.
I first learned about a cosmic telescope while watching Cosmos: Possible Worlds. Host Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the concept, using our Suns own gravity to bend light to see “…detailed images of mountains, oceans, glaciers, and who know maybe even the cites of these worlds.” Our own sun would become the lens of the cosmic telescope. “Galileo’s best telescope could magnify an image 30 times…”, “…our cosmic telescope could make things appear 10 billion times closer”. Wow! Think of that!
deGrasse Tyson continues: “…what I cannot understand is: why we haven’t built one. We already know how to do it. We have the technology right now. When would you like the future to begin?”.
Amazing show about science!
Hey Jeff, why not skip the 10 minute ride into space and build one of these? I’d gladly buy more products on Amazon if you did. You could even call it the AMAZON Telescope!