[ExI] Extreme observational astronomy

[David Lubkin]

<http://www.gizmag.com/darpa-folding-telescope/30039/>
DARPA developing giant folding space telescope

Not bad. But I'm impatient for the telescopes to come, e.g., extreme 
space-based astronomical interferometry, with an effective diameter 
measured in AU.

Q: Assume Drexlerian molecular nanotechnology. If you took apart the 
solar system for raw materials, what is the largest effective 
diameter telescope you could create? What would its capabilities be?


-- David.