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Test out the power of your binoculars, telescope, or even naked eye with this convenient, standardized eye chart located right on the moon.
The first letter, E, will be so big that almost anyone can read it with their naked eye from Earth. Beneath it are letters which decrease in size until they
can be read only with binoculars, then a small telescope, then with a ground-based observatory telescope; then, letters of such infinitesimal size that even Hubble can barely make them out.
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Culturally insensitive lunar pollution - fishbone. |
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I would suggest using existing lunar features for the test. |
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Native Americans and other ancient cultures used a double star in the handle of Ursa Major named Mizar as an eye test for their children. |
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"Objects in image are further away than they appear..." |
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//Culturally insensitive lunar
pollution// + |
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The large sum of money future
researchers will go through to
figure out this meaning. + |
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And still not understand. + |
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Just about everyone would hate
this idea. + |
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Somebody may like this idea. - |
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McDonalds may pay a large sum of
money for the E to instead be an
M. + |
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Leave the moon alone, please. |
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but wouldn't this be a test that would be rather simple to cheat on? |
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The moon is probably too bright for huble to look at, but maby not. |
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Dr. Curry, a rather unconventional optometrist, uses existing lunar features for the eye test, leading his patients out of the office into the night air.
“Why are we out here,” Ms. Ravenswood says, pulling her sweater tight against the cold.
“For your eye test, of course. So, what do you see?” he says, pointing towards the horizon.
“The moon?”
“Yes, that’s right! What else?”
“Ah, well, there’s a man in it.” She looks at Curry. “A bald man?”
“Right again. Now what’s below that?”
“A woman.”
“A woman? Where’s a woman?” he says, putting on his glasses.
“Right below the man.”
“I’m looking, but I don’t see a woman.” He's leaning forward, as if to get closer.
“See, she’s naked.”
“Really! Well...I don’t see....”
“And there’s a baby.”
“Now come on!“
“And a kitty. See the kitty?” |
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Kind of kills the romance of looking for naked women on the moon if there's a big E at the top. |
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I'm also not sure how you intend to keep the letters facing the right way. At the very least, it would be upside down from the southern hemisphere... and without MAGIC it would be rather difficult to keep the image from appearing sideways when the moon rises and sets. |
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You'll also need a lot of electricity to keep the letters lighted when the moon is new, and some special processes for keeping them visibleish during all the phases between full and new, unless you plan to alter the rotation of the moon, or illuminate it from earth. |
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Aside from these minor problems, I'd bun the idea just because of all the space colonization you'd need to build the chart... but until you get some non-magic solutions, I propose to give you a fishbone eyechart. Look as closely as you want. There's a big E there on the skull... |
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An alternative to this idea, which I'd support, would be to blast huge, shiny titanium letters out into space. These floating three-dimensional letters could be used for calibrating, testing, and comparing different telescopes. |
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