The Hubble has nothing to do with it. Because they are not taking pictures of the earth. If they were then they would have to be shooting the earth with the Laser. Plus the hubble is not an optical telescope as far as I can remember. I'll go to the Library and Will try to dig up this video tape, maybe I'll bring it to an install fest or something. Scott Raun wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 04:00:32PM +0100, Andrew Nemchenko wrote: > > No this is completly diffent the link you sent explains that they use a > > laser to create an artificial dot in the sky and then they measure the > > distortion in the atmosphere and use a flexible mirror to compensate for > > this distorion, with the compensation the stars apper more clearly. What > > I saw was completely different, they basically used a giant green colored > > laser to burn a hole in the atmosphere, then for a very shor amount of > > time they were able to take pictures through that hole with no > > distortion. These are two different thngs. > > I'm going to take significant convincing to believe this one - do you > have a reference on it? The period of time that a lightning strike > makes a vacuum is going to be roughly analogous to this - your looking > at a tenth of a second AT MOST! And the Hubble can't get a usable > image that fast. I find it very difficult to believe that they get > enough light down this little narrow pipe (it can't be more than > inches across, and you usually measure professional telescopes in > FEET!) > > -- > Scott Raun > sraun at fireopal.org > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ------ http://USFamily.Net/info - Unlimited Internet - From $8.99/mo! ------ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: drew.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 265 bytes Desc: Card for Andrew Nemchenko Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010810/55527f99/drew.vcf