They had that same red Jupiter dot in the same place forever.

Many years ago I had a strange telescope encounter. Some seemingly benevolent character had a very high-end reflector telescope set up on the sidewalk of a popular boutique section of town.

I was walking with my girlfriend and friends at the time, and the owner was letting people look at Saturn through, which was very cool.

My girlfriend looked into the telescope and exclaimed, "IT LOOKS FAKE!"

We laughed at her, and dismissed her comment.

Passing through that section of town a few years later, I noticed the friggin freemason lodge was right across the street from where the telescope was set up, and I was blown away.

I've thought about her gut reaction, and I had suppressed a similar reaction. It actually looked weird.

Something was off, but I can't describe what it was.

We're surrounded by an ocean of bullshit science.