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@stux The spacesuit is just so that they can consume blood (needs to be liquid).
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@stux The first sixty years of telescopes had no mirrors. Mirrors weren't used in telescopes until Newton.
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space has plenty of sun. how vampires protect themselves from sunlight !?

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It was in the 1922 Nosferatu silent movie that added the sunlight thing. Not a big issue in 19th C vampire stories, which predate Dracula.
The not visible in a mirror thing may be vampires messing with your head. Also originally no telescopes had mirrors. Newton in 1688 was first, though Western Telescopes only date from about 1607 (patent in 1608).

It's a joke.

@stux I love the Fedverse. Someone posts an amusing cartoon that involves, telescopes, mirrors, and vampires.

The thread almost immediately pivots into a discussion about vampires, sunlight, qualities of the mirror material, the history of telescopes ...

@stux haha ohhh god is a dad joke right ? haha
@stux I took me six hours, but I think I finally get the joke! πŸ˜„
@stux finally the explanation for #DarkMatter
@stux For more vampires in space, read the book "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. If you don't care for vampires in space, read it anyway.