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sophiecentaur
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If you want to see a certain piece of sky, I think that it wouldn't be too hard to find a number of images of it. Large telescope "owners" gather far more data than they are capable of analysing on their own and are only too pleased to make it available (at a price, no doubt. The running costs are quite high. Windolene is not cheap!Sanborn Chase said:Sophiecentaur said"...so any worker who wants a certain type of data can find it and analyse it."
Whoa! I think he's correct about our increase in data and our ability to organize and analyse it, but is it that simple? Could the bane of the Information Age be searching for that last bit of confirming data from the previous work of others?