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Old 04-July-2009, 01:14 PM
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Consider what is required to focus different parts of the E-M spectrum. All based on reflection, but dishes for radio waves, mirrors (or lenses) for light, rather different, glancing mirrors for X-rays, so that a wide scanning machine would need to be an amalgam of all these very different technologies. And for radio waves, rather big, too!

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