"nemesis" <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Let's face it, while Hubble kicks much ass, it's pretty much just a huge,
> close-to-perfect lens.  In other words, a device to form images by capturing
> light and expanding it.  Not nearly as awesome as a device to measure particles
> much smaller than lightwaves and translate those measurements into images... :D

I guess you can look at it in a number of ways.  I was thinking about the
physical processes and our knowledge of them.  From that standpoint, they're
pretty equally awesome, if you ask me.  From an engineering standpoint, though,
I would agree.  Atomic force microscopes are a lot cooler than a big,
imperfectly polished mirror.  It's pretty incredible that atoms can image atoms
at a subatomic level.

 - Ricky

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