Bill Gates - not all bad

[ian_d]

Looks like he's putting some of that cash to good use

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/05/spaceexploration.sciencenews

[SteveL]

It looks like you're trying to scan the sky!

Do you want to:

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  [li]create a document template?[/li]
  [li]send an email to a friend?[/li]
  [li]send the invasion fleet to a new planet?[/li]
  

[Sam]

I don't feel so miffed about paying so much money over the years for Microsoft products now.

[daz]

You're Planet has developed an unexpected error.

Click OK to reboot....

[Kai]

But they will commission the CCD and then immediately release a bug fix followed by years of updates and blue screens :rolleyes:

[SteveL]

Expected to see its "first light" in 2014, the 8.4-meter LSST will survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its 3 billion-pixel digital camera

and

Every 15 seconds it will take an image seven times the diameter of the moon, adding up, every three days, to a full panorama of the heavens

Holy cow!

(And I bet it wont make POTW )

[beamish]

Will he use Photoshop?

Karlo

[Whippy]

The camera's 15 second exposure should be long enough to record images of even very faint objects such as asteroids and so-called near-Earth objects

15 seconds? Pfft. My Canon Powershot does 15 seconds!!

Tony..

[Sam]

The camera's 15 second exposure should be long enough to record images of even very faint objects such as asteroids and so-called near-Earth objects

15 seconds? Pfft. My Canon Powershot does 15 seconds!!

Tony..

My SPC 900NC will do 20 secs without too much amp glow - I wonder if they want to swap?

[beamer3.6m]

There won't be drivers to run it on Vista so don't panic

[ringz]

30 terabytes of information available over the internet!!! I think I'm going to have my broadband speed increased a bit.

I wonder how long it will take for pipex to declare me persona non grata after trying to keep up with that data flow

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Martyn

[radioactive]

The universe has made errors and will have to close

click to send details to Microsoft

Don't send

would it actually matter Bill?

[beamish]

He only donated $10 million :shock: Must have been the loose change from a pocket of an old pair of jeans he found at the bottom of his wardrobe he hasn't worn for a while, you know how it is.

Karlo