imdb_shenanigans t1_iu7kpia wrote on October 29, 2022 at 4:02 AM

Reply to comment by ItchyK in Why does the angle of Spitzer's Pillars of Creation image look different? by MalcolmY

Other images? If you give me a A4 size sheet of paper and tell me these black and white dots represent 100 billion galaxies out there and I will then go "bleh, only interesting to an astronomer, unless you take an IMAX to a black hole, it ain't gonna impress me", this would indicate that when I thought I was "high and thinking", I was giving myself too much credit for the ability to think.

ItchyK t1_iu7kx2c wrote on October 29, 2022 at 4:04 AM

I'm talking about visually. And there's a lot of people who just don't give a shit about NASA and want to defund it. So putting out these cool pictures is a way of keeping the public interested.