This is my Brian...๐ง ๐
Okay, let me explain with a story... how my brain works... and how it has prevented me from finishing anything in the last... 30 years... Let me tell you a story about little Pablo when he was 16... (Back then, I could afford to spend my time doing nothing... It was the 90s, a wonderful decade, without phones, or gurus telling us how special we were, or anyone trying to "bring out the best in us." There was no internet either...). At age 16, Pablo wanted to be an astronomer (another "lifelong dream" that year). So Pablo...decided to build his own telescope. That's right, back then we used to make them ourselves... So I started polishing the future lenses of the telescope. Let's say that doing that would achieve 99.9999999999% of what a telescope means, right? Well... I'll continue... I polished the first circular glass...shaping it into a parabola through the circular movements of my hand and my body (as we were turning around the table). Once the parabola was made, achieving the focal distances we needed, it was almost done. Now comes the flat mirror. A perfectly flat mirror that we polish and measure with "interference circles" (when the mirror is flat, the "circle" takes on an infinite radius value, which produces lines instead of circles...). I almost had it... I had achieved the other 0.0000000001% of the telescope, a concave mirror, and a flat mirror... Well, and that's when my brain came into play...the same one that's with me today... All that was missing was the frame... simple, right? For the mount, what do most people do? Since they already have the most important part of the telescope, they just buy the mount, right? No, Pablo didn't...so there I went, looking for PVC pipes...to cut them, to fit the mirrors, and to assemble the telescope... The reader might think that this was the "problem," the "detour"...nope...not at all, it was just the beginning... I said to myself, "To assemble the PVC pipe, I need the axles to hold it up, the structure..."