Of course, it’s even better if you can put such advanced telescopes in space, and create synthetic apertures out of individual physical optical elements 100s of miles apart. Part of my PhD work 20y ago was on scheduling algorithms for such “large baseline space interferometers”
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“Ah, but a man’s teach should exceed his grasp, else what’s a heaven for?” — Robert Browning. This is not a universal sensibility though. One of the weirdest life experiences for me is that there are people who are simply completely disinterested in things they can’t act on.
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Sherlock Holmes was one. He didn’t know that the earth revolves around the sun, and when Watson tells him, he days he’ll do his best to forget the fact. There’s many people like this. Agency or nothing. The read-only universe might as well not exist.
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‘The purpose of humanity is to build bigger telescopes’ isn’t a bad philosophical axiom. It’s certainly more meaningful than ‘build bigger computers’ or ‘create more material comfort’ or ‘relieve more suffering’ imo. Ground species purpose in boundary conditions of consciousness.
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Damn. TIL NRO spy satellites are probably more powerful than Hubble in raw optical terms though designed for spying on your phone rather than distant galaxieshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1292596559184420864?s=21 …
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With the rate of stars and galaxies moving apart, thinking about the explorable universe reminds me of the hitting the invisible boundary between the play area of a game and the backdrop. It would be interesting to map the edges of our playable game area.
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All of what we see is shaped by saccadian snapshots. Depending upon the granularity of your sampling rate, there's an infinite number of waveforms that fit the samples you are taking. I had some fascinating conversations about time-signatures, and how they could be played with.
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One drummer that i was ecstatic to work with had a base unit of the overall rhythm pattern that both fit within a 4/4 pattern so the audience could dance to it, while simultaneously being a pattern where the base unit was the full length of the song. :D
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I never enjoyed optics