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lauraanne_gilmanSome days I'm convinced the entire human species was a waste of evolutionary energy. And then something happens to make me think maybe we're not so hopeless after all...
Giant 'telescope' links London, New York
LONDON, England (CNN) -- As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth upon the South Bank of the River Thames this morning, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St George had finally been realized.
In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope -- a 37 feet long by 11 feet tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th century webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)
Is it gonna solve any of the world's problems? Nope. But it's neat and cool and was designed to bring us together, not tear us apart. Never underestimate that....
Giant 'telescope' links London, New York
LONDON, England (CNN) -- As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth upon the South Bank of the River Thames this morning, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St George had finally been realized.
In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope -- a 37 feet long by 11 feet tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th century webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)
Is it gonna solve any of the world's problems? Nope. But it's neat and cool and was designed to bring us together, not tear us apart. Never underestimate that....
