Kevin Knuth

That makes me worry that

You really have to double your efforts to look to make sure there's not an artifact issue that you haven't considered.

When they shouldn't be being illuminated by the sun.

I think that's the idea.

The plate defect rate should be constant.

It's interesting.

Yeah, certainly it's interesting.

I think it's one of the...

I mean, the hallmark of science is reproducibility, right?

So what you need to have is you need to have other labs look at those plates and actually do the study, try to replicate the study.

And I think that's what needs to happen.

Yeah, if you had multiple observatories, that would be ideal.

Yeah, it is intriguing.

It is, yeah.

Yeah, it's a nice idea for a project.

I mean, you've got all of these photographic records and to go through them, I mean, just to look for transients in the first place.

I mean, transients would be anything that you don't have a good explanation for.

So there's potential for lots of discoveries there, not just...

things orbiting the Earth.

Absolutely no idea.