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>we didn't know how many galaxies there were until the 90s with the Hubble Deep Fieldthis is blowing my mind
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@augustus and most exoplanets are flying trash-heaps in goofy orbits, it is beyond weird that we're in a solar system with more than one planet, let alone nine planets, all but one in the same orbital plane
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@Moon @augustus little planets are hard to see, and checking by transit so have to be kinda in-plane, so can't actually know how many planets there are, thought
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@augustus I don't think we had definite proof of exoplanets until the 2000s.
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@Moon @augustus at least have heard people saying so in reference to there being so many "super-earths" found and less around earth-size-ish
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@lain @augustus if you mean that directionality thing, is a decent assumption to make, constant, assuming kinda-uniform inflation, since looking in different directions shows pretty same "back-in-time" progression to young galaxies etc. the alternative would be like directional inflation also that just happens to be centred around the earth in the right orientation to cancel the effect?
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@augustus we still don't know. most science reporting is always pretending that we know everything now except for 'mysterious' and 'weird' stuff like dark matter (maybe not even matter) or black holes. in fact we don't even know if the speed of light is actually constant.
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@lain @augustus well sure, just mean because that was brought up recently
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@shmibs @augustus there are several ways that speed of light could not be a constant, directionality is one.
augustus pugin ?
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