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A solar gravitational lens will be humanity's most powerful telescope (2022)

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197 points amichail | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 11:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.203s | source
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cryptoz ◴[17 Oct 24 00:08 UTC] No.41865171[source]▶
I’ve put this in my “other ideas” section in YC applications for a couple rounds now. No luck yet.

Would love to send 1,000 probes to 550AU+ out in order to observe 1,000+ ‘nearby’ exoplanets, hopefully find life, make contact, start trade…haha. Or otherwise defend the solar system from invaders that are perhaps already on the way!

Maybe YC rejects me specifically because I put that there…hm.

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bensandcastle ◴[17 Oct 24 00:28 UTC] No.41865250[source]▶
how much analysis have you done on this? I'm working on a series around Kardashev II work - space solar, asteroid mining, dyson spheres and the real work that is happening to support this now. contact me if you'd like to discuss - @bensand on X
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1. cryptoz ◴[17 Oct 24 04:55 UTC] No.41866531[source]▶
Sadly I am still at very early stages of this idea. However I will save this thread and contact you if I make progress!