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Intel's Moore donates $200 million to telescope project
GORDON MOORE, co-founder of Intel, has reached into his pocket and given $200 million to Caltech and the University of California to build the world's biggest scope.
According to the LA Times, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation had already forked out $50 million to help design the telescope.
The "thirty metre telescope" project will go live in 2017, with designs finished by March of 2009, the paper said.
As its name implies, the optical telescope has a 30 metre mirror and after completion will be three times bigger than the biggest optical scopes.
It hasn't yet been decided where the giant reflector will be based, but Chile is one of the sites on the list. More here. µ
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