http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1458134548/arkyd-a-space-telescope-for-everyone-0 I can't wait to see the global arguments pop up as to whose turn it is...
Re: Brent Spiner & Robert Picardo use Kickstarter for orbital telescop Interesting. Nice that they'll let some kids play with the telescope, but why not do this kind of thing with NASA rather than these rock-miners? Wonder what they paid the actors and such. Too bad priorities are so fuckward. We should have many such telescopes available to the schools, through public funding. Ah well. Cool if it launches. I have other priorities.
Re: Brent Spiner & Robert Picardo use Kickstarter for orbital telescop Not to be a downer, but I'd guess that this part is pretty much a given.
Re: Brent Spiner & Robert Picardo use Kickstarter for orbital telescop Because the rock miners are the ones doing it? It's not like someone came to them with the idea. Regardless, if this were done by NASA it would cost us much more in tax dollars, take tens of years to get launched and probably get cancelled by some congressional idiot. Leave the government out of things when possible.
Re: Brent Spiner & Robert Picardo use Kickstarter for orbital telescop Yeah, this will be a lot cheaper through a private organization. I'll have to look at the presentation to see what it can actually do, but I'll probably back it.
Re: Brent Spiner & Robert Picardo use Kickstarter for orbital telescop Likely the only way something like this would ever get funded. My Dad has worked indirectly with Bill Nye in the past, when my Dad donated several of his kits to a school, where they assembled them and learned about telescopes and astronomy under the eye of Bill Nye. So, he's done this kind of thing before, and if he supports this project, it lends some weight to it in my mind.
Re: Brent Spiner & Robert Picardo use Kickstarter for orbital telescop Looks pretty good. I backed it. The status counters update in real time; the project gained about a thousand dollars as I watched the presentation video.