Digitalizing the universe

In this century more and more things are becoming digital. I wouldn't be surprised if some people haven't even seen a real picture. Today if you go to the party, you already know that after there will be few hundred photos taken but non of them will be printed out. Even a big part of our lives is spent in websites like Facebook or Second Life. All information is being saved in hard drives as binary code but strangely the need of paper still increases quickly. I didn't mentioned photography just randomly. Nowadays everyone competes with each other, whose camera has more pixels, especially companies making cameras. But even those huge companies couldn't win against scientists. Today it was announced that the biggest digital camera received an approval to be assembled. It's characteristics are just staggering. This camera will have 3.2 billion pixels, 320 times more than normal digital camera! It is really very hard to call it camera as weight will be 3 tons! But you can guess that it's impossible to take this camera to capture your holiday moments. Every advertisement company would wish to have it. Just imagine how big and detailed adverts could be. Anyway SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory designed it to capture night sky. All received data will be used to study dark energy and dark matter, very hot field of science research. It will also allow to create 3D map of the sky, capture rapidly changing objects and lots more. Every year 6 million gigabytes of data will be collected. Let's hope this toy will help to answer all scientists' questions. You can find more about the project by pressing the link: http://scitechdaily.com/worlds-largest-digital-camera-lsst-gets-approval/