[MeshugeMikey]

a camera the size of a car..

astonishing

I have to do another search for the total Price

[Junk Silver]

They'll have to bring in the Army Corps of Engineers to design and build a workable "selfie-stick".

[9thLife]

Here's a pic:

[knarf]

photo op

[knarf]

But seriously folks ....

why ?

[GeronL]

the stars will still be white dots

[Fungi]

3,200 megapixel. Is that right? It may be large but the sensor is small with regard to the size of the camera. Do I have this right?

[Vendome]

Whoa!!! 3,200-megapixel

[Gamecock]

How long before we see selfies from that camera?

[Ken522]

3200 megapixel camera = 160 x 20 megapixel cameras; these egg-heads are going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars that we don’t have on this project - utter insanity!

[Amendment10]

Thank you for referencing that article MeshugeMikey. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

I’d normally support a project like this.

However …

Not only was a price not mentioned (corrections welcome), but even without looking at the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I, I know that the states have never authorized the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to tax and spend for scientific instruments like the referenced camera.

And since the article also doesn’t indicate who’s actually funding the camera (corrections welcome), until somebody can clue me in, this seems to be another federal spending project wrongly established outside the framework of the Constitution.

[Jack Hammer]

If you listen closely to the president, it becomes apparent that even the world’s biggest camera won’t be big enough to take the White House egomaniac’s photo.