Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> Also, this view is *not* a snapshot of the universe at any given
> time, as the galaxies at the center are current and the galaxies
> at the border are seen as they were *two billion years* ago.

Oooh, this reminds me of the delicate task of backing up an Oracle database
while customers are still using it.  (My professor's definition of a "large"
database: one which, if you shut it down to do a backup, your company would go
out of business in the time it takes to do the backup.)

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