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The Constellational Squiggle
Jocelyn saw that odd signal again. And she recognized it. So she goes back to her miles of paper data and finds another signal that doesn't make sense. And another question mark. I've got five or six sightings of this thing all from the same bit of sky. That implies it's something astronomical. But the pulses occupied only about a quarter of an inch on the paper. When she showed it to her thesis advisor, Anthony Huesch, he said she needed to enlarge it. The way you get in enlargement is to run the paper faster underneath the pen. And it all gets spread out and enlargement. My thesis advisor was livid. You know, it