Now, at 3 o'clock in the morning when you're all alone, haven't had much sleep, that was a very romantic idea, but it was that idea -- the fact that you could in fact prove that there's somebody out there just using this same technology -- that appealed to me so much that 20 years later I took a job at the SETI Institute. Now, I have to say that my memory is notoriously porous, and I've often wondered whether there was any truth in this story, or I was just, you know, misremembering something, but I recently just blew up this old negative of mine, and sure enough, there you can see the Shklovsky and Sagan book underneath that analog calculating device.
Klokken 3, når man er alene, og ikke har fået meget søvn, var det en meget romantisk ide, men det var den ide, det faktum at man faktisk kunne bevise at der er nogen derude ved hjælp af den samme teknologi -- der 20 år senere fik mig ind i jobbet ved SETI Institut. Nu må jeg så sige at min hukommelse er notorisk porøs, og jeg har tit tænkt på, om historien er sand eller om jeg husker forkert, men for nyligt forstørrede jeg dette gamle negativ, og søreme så, der kan man se Shklovsky og Sagan bogen der ligger under analog regnemaskinen.