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@Cosmic_Andrew1 Vera is insane. It has a requirement that any variable or transient object it observes (10 million ish per night) has to be published publicly within 60 seconds of the shutter closing. Every 3 days it will image the entire southern sky, for 10 years straight.
They will DOUBLE the amount of known small bodies in the solar system in just the first few MONTHS. We have been cataloging these for over a century and just a few months modern tech WILL DOUBLE IT.
Since we discovered type 1a super nova we have found about a thousand of them in total. Rubin is projected to move that number up to…. Wait for it A million +
The SETI talk is fascinating in the first half as well but the Vera talk is mind numbing numbers
 
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