I don't know much about this topic, but I did RTFA, so permit me to ask a stupid question:
1. if this impossibility is related to noise overwhelming the image signal (thereby causing it to be an unresolved blur)
2. and if we assume that this 3.5-mile diameter is for a naked eye looking through a telescope (i.e. we're talking about a single exposure)
3. isn't there some statistical process that could enable a reduction of the diameter of the lens, which would reconstruct a less-noisy image based on multiple exposures?
1. if this impossibility is related to noise overwhelming the image signal (thereby causing it to be an unresolved blur)
2. and if we assume that this 3.5-mile diameter is for a naked eye looking through a telescope (i.e. we're talking about a single exposure)
3. isn't there some statistical process that could enable a reduction of the diameter of the lens, which would reconstruct a less-noisy image based on multiple exposures?