Wait a minute here. It's a model of the telescope which means it doesn't work. We are getting duped.

I guess Spirit has a good idea in the donation category after all. They have some very good dusters at the museum.

No, of course it doesn't work. The real one isn't even completed yet; there certainly won't be two of them, and if there were another since it's a space telescope it'd be in satellite orbit in outer space -- like the Hubble Telescope, which this one will replace.

So that headline is (surprise!) misleading. They're not building a telescope in Battery Park. They're building an exhibit about a space telescope, and that exhibit will be centered around a full-scale model of the telescope.

Wonder what they're going to do with it once the festival is over. They should donate it to the Rose Center.

I'm not so sure that would be such a good idea considering the poorly maintained exhibits there now. And I am sure the complexity of the "scope" is a lot greater than a simple scale that tells you your weight on Pluto.

We won't need that "your weight on Pluto" scale anyway, once the real James Webb Space Telescope is completed. We'll be able to just look at a scale that's actually on, and see our weight right there!

"We'll be able to just look at a scale that's actually on, and see our weight right there!"

Er... that was supposed to be "a scale that's actually on Pluto."

If so it might work on the moons of outer Uranus also?

"Maybe we'll figure out the dark energy that we've learned is the fusion of the cosmos forcing space to expand."

Or maybe we wont.