Now that astronomy departments have used up “very large telescope” and “extremely large telescope”, successors will have to built in Australia. “Crikey look at the size of that fucker telescope” comes online in 2032.
@Unixbigot wasn't there a plan for an OWL telescope? (OverWhelmingly Large)
@neoluddite @Unixbigot I thought that one actually got built
@jpm @neoluddite TIL no, the 39m ELT is Plan B after the 100m OWL was declared Too Likely To Elicit Ablist Scatology