The Lens and the Light
Everyone’s building better telescopes. Nobody’s pointing them at anything interesting.
In 1609, Galileo pointed a telescope at Jupiter and discovered four moons. The telescope was garbage by modern standards. A few inches of curved glass, chromatic aberration so bad everything had purple fringes, magnification that wouldn’t impress a tourist at the Grand Canyon gift shop and they are excited about everything.
It didn’t matter. He pointed i…
