  The Wide Aperture Exoplanet Telescope (WAET) is a ground-based optical
telescope layout in which one dimension of a filled aperture can be made very,
very large (beyond 100 m) at low cost and complexity. With an unusual beam path
but an otherwise-conventional optics, we obtain a fully-steerable telescope on
a low-rise mount with a fixed gravity vector on key components. Numerous design
considerations and scaling laws suggest that WAET can be far less expensive
than other giant segmented mirror telescopes.
