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Old 15-11-2007, 08:55 PM
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1. Without gravity as mercury would just float away. No good for space.
2. It can only work pointing straight up as gravity would distort the parabolic shape.
3. You cannot freeze it as mercury will crystallise and hence ruin a perfectly smooth mirror surface.
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