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<raptop> mmm... butter...
<raptop> > Now I wanna try and trick you that 天狗 are real but that's something a 天狗 would do.
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<raptop> SnoopJ: so, uh, I finally watched Godzilla (1954), and was surprised at how much it's a 50s sci-fi movie
<raptop> You could totally do a double header of it and The Day The Earth Stood Still
<SnoopJ> raptop, I only saw it for the first time a few months ago, but yea it's very much of its era. Could totally do that double-header
<SnoopJ> raptop, at the risk of heresy: might even be a better double feature with the Keanu remake, since that one is a little more explicitly about human existential dread
<raptop> I haven't seen the 2008 Day the Earth Stood Still, so can't comment
<SnoopJ> it is barely related to its namesake, but relatively fun 00s fare for what it is
<raptop> I guess a question would be: how much of it is about technology-related concerns?
<SnoopJ> so, without really giving anything away, Klaatu comes to Earth because climate change
<SnoopJ> which I see as the parallel to Godzilla-as-nuclear-horror-story
<raptop> hmm
<SnoopJ> IIRC it's framed in much softer terms than that but yea it's climate change
<SnoopJ> vs. the original being just "hello humans how do you do *BANG*"
* raptop will have to check it out
<SnoopJ> it's not *great* to be clear but left enough of an impression on me that I've been considering rewatching
<SnoopJ> its rendition of Gort is pretty cool if nothing else
<SnoopJ> much more like a kaiju :D
<galois> [url] UWF300 f1.3 - Astrosysteme | www.astrosysteme.com
<raptop> fast
<raptop> So how does it work, anyway? 3 mirrors?
<WeylandsWings> one mirror
<SnoopJ> !how fast
<galois> SnoopJ: 89 fasts
<raptop> o_O
<WeylandsWings> https://www.astrosysteme.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/uwf300-optical-layout-768x386.jpg one mirror and a 5 element refractive corrector
<WeylandsWings> the central obstruction is only 51%
<WeylandsWings> although that might go up with a large camera
<WeylandsWings> and you might need the camera to be water cooled, because an Air-TEC would be dumping the heat into the shoud of the scope, which is right where you DONT want it
<WeylandsWings> image field is mearly 8 deg so it would make an amazing search system
* raptop wonders how ZTF does things
<WeylandsWings> ZTF?
<raptop> Zwicky Transient Facility
<SnoopJ> Zelloscope Telescope Fellowsscope
<raptop> hm, ancy custum CCD that's probably somewhat smaller FoV
<raptop> *fancy