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Ma8ee on July 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Hubble stared at nothing for 100 hours (2015)

If the water was as transparent as space, whales and large schools of fish would certainly be apparent.

saagarjha on July 24, 2020 | [–]

Space isn't quite transparent, and a closer analogy would be to ask if you can spot bacteria and other microorganisms because something sentient the size of a whale "scaled up to space" would be unrecognizable as such to us.

Ma8ee on July 24, 2020 | | [–]

> Space isn't quite transparent

On Earth scale it is for all practical purposes.

doctor_eval on July 25, 2020 | [–]

Space whales!

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