Hain, the magnification required to do that with glass optics only would be ruinously expensive, and the maintenance would be near impossible. At least, I think so. Either way, I cannot fathom how it actually works when you get it down to the "nuts and bolts."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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