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Personally, I want reality, reality being what I would see if I fly by in a space ship.
by hnburnsy 3y ago
Personally, I want reality, reality being what I would see if I fly by in a space ship.
- xwolfi 3y agoCompletely wrong. What you see is a product of what you need to see, adapted by evolution over millions of years, so that you can survive on Earth a bit longer than 5 minutes. We're talking of seeing a barren planet millions of kms away, flying in space ships that are thousands of years away in the making: do you really REALLY think "reality" is what your eyes see now so you don't stumble around in the bright light shower of Earth ? If we have to survive in space, we'll have to see the rings of Uranus, if only to avoid them when we fly by in your space ship :)
- jrumbut 3y agoThat's not an unreasonable desire, and to satisfy it there are true color pictures of Uranus including one from a space ship that flew by: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#/media/File%3AUranus_as_seen_by_NASA's_Voyager_2_(remastered)_-_JPEG_converted.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus#/media/File%3AUranus_... As the article points out, they are extremely boring to look at. A lot of space objects are that way. The mission of the JWST is to look at these other wavelengths where there is more interesting activity and where the signal from that activity survives the trip to (near) earth.