The Galactic Internet (And We’re Still Using Dial-up) by Les Johnson

interesting and most informative and entertaining... even for a science junky...

..."... Astronomers validated Einstein’s prediction about gravity lensing by observing distant galaxies that are gravitationally distorted by massive objects between us and them—usually supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies—and finding what are now known as Einstein crosses. The Hubble Space Telescope captured one such Einstein cross in Figure 2. In this image, several galaxies in the MACS J1149.6+2223 galaxy cluster create magnified images of the galaxies behind them. A large cluster galaxy bent the light from a supernova from an otherwise invisible (blocked by the galaxy in front of it) background galaxy into four separate images. Voila! One of nature’s magnifying glasses at work.... "...

Until we can truly harness "spooky action at a distance", the quantum entanglement theory, we will be looking through these effects for decades to come. Come on science! Catch up with science fiction already!! :)

Very cool article, now we know where to put our space LP/OP, now all we need is the technology to get it set up.