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03.02.08Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope Shows Great Potential, Haters Say Mehphoto credit: Chip_2904 This morning I woke up to a Slashdot posting on Microsoft's latest software project, the WorldWide Telescope (WWT). This is the rumored world-changing project that made Robert Scoble cry, and it's something I've been waiting eagerly for since Scoble's teasing posts. I've loved astronomy since I was a kid, so when I caught word that this uber-secret project had to do with collecting images from telescopes around the world, it quickly moved up to "must have" status. In this preview from the most recent TED conference, Roy Gould, a notable science educator, and Curtis Wong, an MS ...
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