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From the Ted Talk by Wendy Freedman: This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe

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So, what does that precision buy us? So the GMT, if you can imagine — if I were to hold up a coin, which I just happen to have, and I look at the face of that coin, I can see from here the _______ on the coin; I can see the face on that coin. My guess that even in the front row, you can't see that. But if we were to turn the Giant Magellan _________, all 80-feet diameter that we see in this auditorium, and _____ it 200 _____ away, if I were standing in São Paulo, we could _______ the face of this coin. That's the extraordinary resolution and power of this telescope. And if we were —

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  1. telescope
  2. point
  3. miles
  4. resolve
  5. writing

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So, what does that precision buy us? So the GMT, if you can imagine — if I were to hold up a coin, which I just happen to have, and I look at the face of that coin, I can see from here the writing on the coin; I can see the face on that coin. My guess that even in the front row, you can't see that. But if we were to turn the Giant Magellan Telescope, all 80-feet diameter that we see in this auditorium, and point it 200 miles away, if I were standing in São Paulo, we could resolve the face of this coin. That's the extraordinary resolution and power of this telescope. And if we were —

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