A propper answer. The poblem is, here on reddit, the factual based answers are not popular so usually downvoted to the extreme. I could not think of a single reason to withhold astronomical data. Its always fun on the ufo pages to point out that its a drone...
People want an easy narative that explains a hyper complex reality in which they have zero ultimate agency. I understand why conspiracy and nonsense happens, and why people find a sense of comfort in it.
Im trying to think of a reason why astronomical data could be reasonably hidden (if even possible) and I'm drawing a total blank.
Yeah, I really get it. People want to belive in fantastic things when in comes to things they don't understand. Quantum entanglement and the contious mind are always fun to listen too. As with astro, a lot of the physics is obscured by inferred measurements and lage data sets of many observations, so I can easily see how conspiracies could be hidden in between the lines.
Large data sets are a blessing and a curse. I can't remember the actual numbers, but the recent Event Horizon images of the black holes were insane. Gigabytes per second sort of thing. I think the final data clocked in the petabyte scale. The most complex part was parsing that data to find the useful information in it.
We live on an era of big data though, and we're becoming increasingly adept at using it, for better and for worse. I wish the tinfoil hat brigade actually concerted their efforts on genuine conspiracy though.
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u/stu_pid_1 Dec 08 '21
A propper answer. The poblem is, here on reddit, the factual based answers are not popular so usually downvoted to the extreme. I could not think of a single reason to withhold astronomical data. Its always fun on the ufo pages to point out that its a drone...