thank you for this kind and fascinating comment.
i guess we think of the future when we think of space because of the technology that gets us there (or sends the pictures back).
but why shouldn’t pictures of the stars look old? they’re the oldest things we have pictures of! perhaps we should be recording our astronomy in charcoal and ochre, on the walls of the deepest caves, to remind us of that.
and i was thinking about the way that scientists have made use of records of supernovae written more than a thousand years ago.
maybe there should be a robotic observatory on a desert mountaintop somewhere, autonomous and solar powered. watching the stars every night and carving them by day with the point of a laser into a rock-face. so that in a thousand years, or ten thousand years, or a million years, those that come after us will have a complete map of the heavens as they looked to us.
thank you again.
regards,
b.
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