[xkcd] Vera Rubin Observatory

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'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible.

🔗 xkcd.com/3278 · #3278

Why it resonates: Any data engineer who's spent hours chasing a mysterious anomaly only to find it was a noisy sensor, a misconfigured pipeline, or someone microwaving lunch knows exactly this energy.

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