Rather than nurturing a lifelong interest in astronomy, these scopes frustrate their users and end up in either under the bed or inside some store room, never to see starlight again.

本来可以恰当地培养天文成为终身兴趣，此些”垃圾天文望远镜”在将其用者挫败之后就会被放置在床下或在储物室内，永远都不会再见到星星的光了。

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The Starlight Room on the 18th floor of the Waldorf Astoria seemed to get perceptibly warmer as the debate ran on.

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Unlike large glass mirrors which are subject to the vagaries of humidity, thermal dynamics and constant deformation from gravity itself, liquid mercury which remains molten at room temperature can reflect as much as 75 percent of incoming starlight with little of the fuss associated with large conventional mirrors.

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