The largest of such concepts that had a shot at being launched was the TPF (Terrestrial Planet Finder), canceled in 2011 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Planet_Finder …
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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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It strikes me that the Three Body Problem trilogy is largely about the difficulty of decoupling reach and grasp.
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I never enjoyed optics