100% with you but I prefer Albert Hoffmans work… 
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Man those images are fantastic!! For me, that vast expanse, that galactic ocean, is where I’ll swim one day!
I gave gods, angels, demons the finger many many years ago now. That is too, primitive for me even think about anymore.
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“We are a way for the universe to know itself.” I heard that Carl Sagan quote many years ago and it kinda answered, or at least made the most sense to me, my curiosity about life and its purpose. I wanna say it gave me more appreciation of just how special and beautiful life and the earth is. It also made me sadder, knowing just how pointlessly fucked up life can be because of choices humanity makes. I feel like the fact that we exist at all is underappreciated.
Regarding the new fancy telescope images, the self aware pile of dirt typing this message thinks it’s neat and can see myself being much more enthusiastic about them when I was younger. Old me knows I’m just a step above a monkey, only I wear a suit and tie while flingin shit. So those images don’t really mean squat to me and I doubt they’re going to change many minds regarding their own views of life and religion.
It’s all about the future, though, I’m jealous I won’t get to experience it. I’m stuck here with you lot. (pic related)
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So that was my question, if we can invent teleportation one day, or a way to go faster than light, theoretically, we could travel backwards in time to see the Big Bang itself?
Also, where are we in the sequence of the universe.
Are there planets out there that are looking at us in a similar fashion through telescopes and seeing us from millions of light years away, and therefore seeing us exist for a brief moment, while others further away can’t even see us anymore because we are gone out of existence by the time it gets there?
Just some shower thoughts
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I hope humanity steps out one day, not out of desperation. Given time, we can figure out how to interact in real time over unreachable distances, I believe, and Hope. My dinosaur ancestors were on the brink of developing the wheel (helps with undersized forearms)…then…well you know cosmic juju fixed that… 
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Of course there are. And right now little Zorg on the planet Kleptar is seeing our sun, as a star. But what he is seeing is from during the times of dinosaurs. which then begs the question…
If we sent a satellite there, and it beamed back imagery of giant space monsters (their dinosaurs), by the time we got there has civilization evolved like earth has since prehistoric times?
Hmmmm
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When we had the Deep Field picture from Hubble I had my mind blown, not a great leap to Web. But I do appreciate the capability of Web and we are going to get some amazing pictures from it. What we need now is a radio telescope in a crater on the dark side of the moon. That will get us closer to the Big Bang, also the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) satellites that they want to have to detect gravitational waves which will get us closer yet to unravelling the universe. Lot of fun to be had.
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Best Bet! 
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Fun fact, the company I worked for at the time developed a tool for measuring the mirrors used in the James Webb telescope. 
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My grandmother, an extremely religious person, dead now 9 years, told me when I asked about the 7 day creation period and how it flew in the face of science and evolution (I was 10), said that the Bible says no one can know the mind of God, much less his definition of time.
You don’t know either.
A day at 1 or 2 billion years to God’s eye makes perfect sense in this universe if you harbor those beliefs.
I am a non believer.
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It’s a big big space out there. here’s to passing unnoticed and being kind to one another.
Cool stuff. Way to go J Webb!!
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Fun fact, I dated the daughter of the Palomar Observatory
Superintendant, and flew hang gliders with his son, Taurus, at Torrey Pines. I got to “steer” the 200 inch with a joystick! Highlight of my little life! 
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I find it amazing that what we are seeing in the pic is galaxies, not stars…each with billions upon billions of life forms. 
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I think the way for traveling the cosmos will be through worm holes. They are proven to exist mathematically. Even if we develop fast as light or faster than light travel you won’t reach the closest star in an entire lifetime. Watch Interstellar if you haven’t. Best space movie EVER.
Scientists think that there may be other universes. I was reading how the Big Bang may be from a black hole in another universe spitting out whatever it eats aka a white hole. I’m sad I won’t be alive for all those answers. Oh well at least I was alive
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They’re neat for sure. I try not to think about the cosmic, my outlooks nihilistic enough with just earth and humanity lol😅
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It truly is very amazing folks…
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The telescope is already damaged with “uncorrectable” damage. How much cash they put into it?
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The damage is nothing significant, they managed to re-align. 
something similar happened a little while ago and we still got those amazing images
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@Hidden, this picture that you posted…did you know that our solar system where the arrow is pointed is where we’re currently at…the opposite end our galaxy(pink dot) is the time when dinosaurs roamed the earth…
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