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But what would the point be? All the interesting bits are in effectively total darkness.
>> But what would the point be? But why should imagine anything?
But that's literally all we would be doing... imagining... You could accomplish exactly the same thing by leaving the lens cap on a camera here on earth. It would see just as much of the interesting parts of Webb as a camera 20m beyond Webb's orbit looking back at it.