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That's an amusing thought. Scientist A: "So... where should we send the rover, this marvel of technology?" Scientist B: "How about a random boring spot?" Sci
by Reedx 8y ago
That's an amusing thought.
Scientist A: "So... where should we send the rover, this marvel of technology?"
Scientist B: "How about a random boring spot?"
Scientist A: "Sounds good!"
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- TeMPOraL 8y agoThat's literally how the famous Hubble Ultra-Deep Field photo came to be. They pointed the Hubble to the most boring spot on the sky they could find, just to see what's there.
- lxmorj 8y agoI mean sure, but they can just re-aim that...
- jibal 8y agoYou don't understand what "literally", "random", or "boring" mean. The Hubble was pointed at an apparently "empty" area ... that was anything but random: "Wiliams suspected the billion light-year stare might capture eons of galactic evolution in a single frame and uncover some of the faintest, farthest galaxies ever seen. And to him, the potential observations were so important and so fundamental for understanding how the universe evolved that the experiment was a no-brainer, consequences be damned."