Re:Liquid water 'lake' revealed on Mars
by TeMPOraL on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @01:40PM
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That'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.
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You 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."
I do understand what those words mean, and was playing off the joke made by the GP. Sorry I forgot to include the "smiley face" emoticon in my previous comment.
I know that you were playing off the joke, AND I stand by my statement.