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So amateurs are basically 72 years behind. It’s still a serious research grade scope. After all Edwin Hubble discovered the universe was expanding with it. Still it’s middling now and you’d need luck plus serious talent to do breakthrough stuff with it.
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Side thought. The older I get, the more I appreciate experimental breakthroughs over theory. Theoretical genius breakthroughs are admirable, but science IMO is seeing sone thing nobody has seen before. Everything else is paperwork.
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🤔… borderline scut work in some ways, on par with comet searching, but still kinda cool.
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Smartphone. @inaturalist app gives you naturalist superpowers to find new species: forum.inaturalist.org/t/things-poste That was the biggest lesson for me with OpenROV etc. The pros are leaving massive holes for sufficiently curious amateurs to fill.
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That’s why I don’t want to do pro science! And why I left academia. It’s gotten too institutionalized and bureaucrat8c and grant-driven. I wanna do high-end am-science. Screw publish-or-perish bs.
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