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Why telescope mirror glass shipped as randomly broken chunks of a constant size in cardboard boxes?
The video MIRROR LAB: Preparing for Casting GMT's Mirror 6 shows the unpacking several hundred boxes full of broken glass from OHARA, packed in styrofoam.
The glass chunks are a fairly uniform size of ...
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