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Okay one of you smart people, how can they see ships?


I noticed this last night,
In the episode, Genesis, Picard and Data come upon the ship which is adrift, all the lights are off etc.
But not just this episode but all of the episodes, how can they see a ship on the visual screen at all?
There's no light in space right?
I remember in the Army on some dumb, crap "out in the night" crap, but away from the city in the woods, just star light, you would literally run into each other.
How the hell can we see the ship in the opening credits??!!!! WTH😡

I just wondered because in my story the kids are on a space station and they watch some ships disembark etc.
After I thought about it, it would be too dark to see much if anything.😟 Poor kids.....
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"There's no light in space right?"

Where do you think that bright ball in the sky is? Outside space?

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There is light everywhere. Have you ever heard of something called 'stars'? Ever noticed that there is one even near the planet you are probably located on right now? It exists in SPACE, and yet, against all of your illogical logic, it does provide LIGHT ...

Every planet in the Universe also exists in SPACE. If there was no LIGHT in SPACE, there couldn't be light ANYwhere.

Yet, the opposite is factual - light exists EVERYwhere. There's a spirit 'beyond atoms', and yet, within every atom. This divine spirit of the Creator could be called 'light' as well.

How do you think there's no light in space? Where do you think light exists, if not in space, where everything is? YOU are in space, every time you flick on a light switch, you are doing it IN SPACE. Did you forget?

By the way, it might be a good idea to reduce redundancy in your posts - it's hard to imagine you being a brilliant writer of stories, when you write 'in my story' twice in one sentence, and think there can be 700 billion people in a ridiculously small area.

However, even if we DO agree with your illogical and truth-hostile assesment that there 'is no light in space' (holy cow.. ever seen Hubble photos of galaxies, nebulae, or the deep space photos?)..

..couldn't we take it as a given that in such a case, navigation systems would ADAPT to this, and generate and light amplify and do all kinds of stuff to show you what's out there? If you can't DIRECTLY see with human eyes (there are animals that can see much dimmer light than human eye and so on, of course, so think about that as well), doesn't mean you can't see it at all. Just because the light might be relatively dim, doesn't mean it isn't there, and so on.

It could also be that in this Universe, everything emits a dim glow, so everything is always 'lit' that way (use your imagination, you ARE a writer, right?).

There's absolutely no reason to assume they shouldn't be able to see anything. Look at stars, in real life and Hubble photos,please

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