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Five-and-a-half years later: in the popular press, the race is still on.

Associated Press, Houston Chronicle: Eyes to the Skies Getting Bigger

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A telescope arms race is taking shape around the world. Astronomers are drawing up plans for the biggest, most powerful instruments ever constructed, capable of peering far deeper into the universe -- and further back in time -- than ever before.

The building boom, which is expected to play out over the next decade and cost billions of dollars, is being driven by technological advances that afford unprecedented clarity and magnification. Some scientists say it will be much like switching from regular TV to high-definition.
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On the Net:
Thirty Meter Telescope: http://www.tmt.org
Giant Magellan Telescope: http://www.gmto.org
European Extremely Large Telescope: http://www.eso.org/public/astronomy/projects/e-elt.html [was OWL, now less overwhelming]
James Webb Space Telescope: http://www.jwst.nasa.gov
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It seems silly to say this but...

Thinking about how it has taken Billions of years for light to reach us...

A few billion years ago, if there was a near Earth Intelligent form of life- what would they have seen through powerful telescopes? With the light of the most distant not yet arrived- they would have missed out on some of the quasars and distant galaxies we see today.

So too, a few billion years in the future, what will our astronomers (Assuming we even exist) see when they turn their (Ultra modern and sleek and amazing) telescopes skyward?

Big telescopes, indeed.
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Those quasars and distant observations are as we see them billions of years ago. Those reaches of the universe have most likely evolved to something similar to our own neck of the woods by now. So if there were any astronomers say 8-10 billion years ago, wouldn't they see quasars and early evolving galaxies nearer to home? Thats also assuming that intelligent life capable of building telescopes was probable that long ago.
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