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Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by ISL on Friday July 24, 2020 @02:18PM (#23942778)
If nothing had been seen, the implications would have been spectacular.

Experiments worth doing are worth doing no matter the result.

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Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by Tegran on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:18PM (#23945817)
The implications aren't automatically "there's nothing out there", more "this was the wrong tool for the job".
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Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by ISL on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:45PM (#23945958)
True, but I doubt that anyone would have gambled that much Hubble time without working out the statistical sensitivity of the measurement.
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Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by mirimir on Friday July 24, 2020 @06:36PM (#23945196)
Right, I suspect that there was much more behind Bob's deep field study than TFA presents.
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