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Uncommon card · Science
Extremely Large Telescope, an Uncommon card
The Extremely Large Telescope is an astronomical observatory under construction.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 172
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 172 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Extremely Large Telescope quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Extremely Large Telescope card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
When ______, it will be the world's largest optical and mid-infrared extremely large telescope.
Answer
completed. When completed, it will be the world's largest optical and mid-infrared extremely large telescope. From the Extremely Large Telescope article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Joseph Stiglitz. Joseph Stiglitz 90 · Yellow 85 · Cygnus X-1 81 · Extremely Large Telescope 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- When completed, it will be the world's largest optical and mid-infrared extremely large telescope.
- Part of the European Southern Observatory agency, it is located on top of Cerro Armazones in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, 23 km from the existing facilities at Paranal Observatory.
- The design consists of a reflecting telescope with a 39.3-metre-diameter segmented primary mirror and a 4.25 m diameter secondary mirror.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Extremely Large Telescope article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
How to get Extremely Large Telescope
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Extremely Large Telescope (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Swinburne Astronomy Productions/ESO, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
