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1.5TB of James Webb Space Telescope data dumped on the internet — new searchable database is the largest window into our universe to date (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Okay quacks, time to go data-mining for anomalies!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tangent, how would this telescope do turned around and pointed at our deepest oceans? There's infinitely more alien life to actually find and study, and it's still unstudied for good reasons I suppose I'm fishing for.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Wait... what?

We've got tons of oceanographic satellites. James Webb is extremely good at picking up light. The ocean is extremely dark.