Giant 'telescope' links London, New York

LONDON, England (CNN) --
"As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St. George had finally been realized.
In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope: an 11.2-meter-(37 feet) long by 3.3-meter-(11 feet) tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th-century Webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)..."

(http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/05/22/scope.project/index.html)

Amber says: This article made me insanely happy. How cool is this? I wish I had thought of it.
Obviously, they arent talking about a REAL tunnel under the ocean. I think we would have heard about that a long time ago. But, this idea is brilliant. It almost makes me want to make a trip to NYC to check it out. (Or London. You know, which ever...)

I say this all the time, but I am so excited to be living when all of this cool stuff is happening. Space travel, crazy- fake telescopes that make it seem like you are looking at someone across the ocean... what next?!