But... how can we KNOW what is out there NOW?

Well, it seems that your doomed to see what you call "ancient fossil light " as
even Light itself has a limit of the speed it can go. Heck, while short, look at
the time it takes light to reach Earth from our own sun.



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towards an east that would not know another dawn.
But elsewhere the stars were still young and the light of morning
lingered: and along the path he once had followed, man would one day go
again."

Arthur C. Clarke, The City & The Stars

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"Scribe2b" wrote in message
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So, putting it to a vote, which would you
rather have: instantaneous news from the edge of a possibly much
bigger universe or stale news from a possibly much more varied past?

i would rather have both.
1--- the ancient fossil light for astro-archaeology.
2--- an immediate relevant source of imaging for NOW.
then we would know a great deal more
jc



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