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If nothing had been seen, the implications would have been spectacular.

Experiments worth doing are worth doing no matter the result.

The implications aren't automatically "there's nothing out there", more "this was the wrong tool for the job".

True, but I doubt that anyone would have gambled that much Hubble time without working out the statistical sensitivity of the measurement.

Right, I suspect that there was much more behind Bob's deep field study than TFA presents.