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Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by saagarjha on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:22PM (#23944603)
Space isn't quite transparent, and a closer analogy would be to ask if you can spot bacteria and other microorganisms because something sentient the size of a whale "scaled up to space" would be unrecognizable as such to us.
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Re:When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015) by Ma8ee on Friday July 24, 2020 @05:32PM (#23944698)
> Space isn't quite transparent

On Earth scale it is for all practical purposes.

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