So this was not a deserted street with two people on it, it was just that the exposure was so long that only the two nearly motionless people were captured on film.
This just has to be a good metaphor for something. Maybe deep space is swarming with huge lifeforms that we can't see because they don't stay still long enough to resolve on the biggest telescopes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograp...
Since they neglect to show you the full, actual photo.
So this was not a deserted street with two people on it, it was just that the exposure was so long that only the two nearly motionless people were captured on film.
This just has to be a good metaphor for something. Maybe deep space is swarming with huge lifeforms that we can't see because they don't stay still long enough to resolve on the biggest telescopes.
For the record this is the actual photo discussed in the article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_%28photogr...
Paywalled :(
Why not pay for it then?
I didn't notice. I have JS disabled and it just works.
And also seemingly they put the worst possible version of the photo? Wikipedia has much better versions on the right-hand side: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograp...