Northwestern University joins Giant Magellan Telescope consortium
In what might be a signal as to the future of the two competing giant telescopes being built in the United States, Northwestern University has now chosen to join the consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile.
The university could have instead joined the consortium building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in Hawaii. That project however has been stalled for almost a decade due to opposition by DEI protesters who claim its construction would be a desecration to Mauna Kea, the mountain where it is being built.
At the moment both telescopes are lobbying the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the additional funds needed for completion. The NSF however can’t fund both, and either has to chose one or the other, or get Congress to give it more money. Right now it has been lobbying for more money, even though it has recognized that GMT is farther along and is in better shape. This decision by Northwestern might be telling us that university officials don’t expect that additional NSF funding to come through, and thus it is putting its money on the project most likely to get finished.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
In what might be a signal as to the future of the two competing giant telescopes being built in the United States, Northwestern University has now chosen to join the consortium building the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile.
The university could have instead joined the consortium building the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) in Hawaii. That project however has been stalled for almost a decade due to opposition by DEI protesters who claim its construction would be a desecration to Mauna Kea, the mountain where it is being built.
At the moment both telescopes are lobbying the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the additional funds needed for completion. The NSF however can’t fund both, and either has to chose one or the other, or get Congress to give it more money. Right now it has been lobbying for more money, even though it has recognized that GMT is farther along and is in better shape. This decision by Northwestern might be telling us that university officials don’t expect that additional NSF funding to come through, and thus it is putting its money on the project most likely to get finished.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
These will mainly be lobbying organizations trying to prevent more satellite deployments.