[ExI] Eyes wide open

[Stuart LaForge]

The Vera C. Rubin telescope is amazing. 8.4 meter mirror and the largest 
digital camera ever built at 3.2 Gigapixels. When they flipped it on for 
its first light test, it detected and catalogued a swarm of 989 new 
asteroids that had never been seen before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmISbL4yC4

And it was a just a one night test and not part of its actual mission to 
survey and catalogue the entire night sky - all night, every night. I 
will sleep better knowing the Vera C. Rubin is on the job watching over 
us. And the combination of Vera C. Rubin and the JWST enable optical 
SETI in ways that Carl Sagan and Francis Drake could only dream of.

Stuart LaForge