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Ordinarily, astronomers can take the measure of a star within hours after obtaining its spectrum. But when the Caltech astronomers got their first look at this object's spectrum, displayed in the form of an EKG-like graph on a computer screen, they were shocked. "Our mouths fell open," says Djorgovski. "I suspect that what we said was not printable. But the gist of it was, 'What the heck is this...
...around us there's the revelry of sports fans watching a game on TV. I register the girl at the next table sitting on her boyfriend's lap, the guys screaming at the TV screen, the happy faces all around, and I feel utterly alone. I am alone. My dad is gone. He's here, but he's not. I want to cry, but instead I sit there with my margarita, my face contorted, holding it all in, my soul ripped in a thousand places...
...switch for quite a while. Then, out of habit one recent evening, I tuned to a baseball game on television. I don't know what caused my altered perceptions, but for the first time in a long while I watched, really watched, what was being displayed on my TV screen. And eureka! I knew the thrill that Archimedes experienced in his bathtub...
...believe me, take a look at a game on your TV. Here is what you will see: a human visage fills the screen, registered so tightly that its ears are outside the frame of your picture. Its jaw muscles are working, its eyes intent on something or someone outside, for the moment, your field of permitted vision. Sometimes a thin stream of a liquid substance you'd rather not think too much about emerges from its purposively pursed lips. If you have the sound on, you may learn that this enormous face belongs to the pitcher and then surmise that...
Then a jump cut to a second screen-filling face, this one wearing, barely perceptible right up there at the top of your picture, something shiny on its head. Aha! you think, that could be a batting helmet, and ergo this new face could belong to the player at the plate who, since he's inclining his head over his invisible right shoulder, may be a left-handed hitter...