Why do people act like clean astro shots are a bad thing? I get wanting texture, but grain is not the same as detail. Once you stack enough subs the noise mostly cancels out anyway, so what is left is just the sensor doing its job. I have left some noise in my own shots before and never once thought it made them more real. Sounds more like that guy just wanted to feel superior about his own messy photos.

Questions aren't the problem, not answering them is.

Man, I had the SAME thing happen with Civil War stuff, and books just hit different. A real author has to show his work, so you get the supply lines and the politics and all the messy fallout, not just some guy going "what if Lee won" and dipping. If that makes us old, then fine, at least we're old and right.