If you find a pulsar that is 100% correlated with the phase of another pulsar two light years away, something totally bizarre is going on. But the machine won't know because it has no idea to look. It just doesn't happen. So there are things that are brand new things. The first time you see one of these fundamentally new phenomena, which is what makes science fun in all honesty, machines don't know. We go to retrain them. I don't think so. Somebody give me some popcorn. This nerd fights getting good.
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