Maybe it will act as an Emergency Locator Transmitter, for the ET's who end up lost in the Solar System by mistake.....;) On Dec 11, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
And I always thought the Kecks, at 10 meters, were big.
Now I see that Europe is about to break ground on a 39 meter!
http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann13099/
Funny that they're calling it the ELT. To them that means Extremely Large Telescope, but to aviators it means Emergency Locator Transmitter. :)
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