[Steely Tom]

>> Phones Microscopes get bigger. << >> Telescopes get smaller. <<

Very good. Yes. The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN is a microscope that's more than five miles across.

In fact, however, and if I read this announcement right, SPIDER is a way to make telescopes very large indeed, by "virtualizing" their optical aperture. This opens the door to amazing possibilities.

Also frightening possibilities.

[Charles Martel]

Also frightening possibilities.

Note that in the "How SPIDER sees" image from Lockheed upthread, SPIDER is "looking" down at us, rather than out into space.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

If needed to stop it all that’s needed is a man to operate a high tech rolled up newspaper or bedroom slipper.