Funny thing. Just this very minute I am reading the book "A Short History of Nearly Everything" (recommended by another CPer though I can't remember who) and the author is talking about finding supernovas and he describes it thusly:
"Finding a supernova therefore was a little bit like standing on the observation platform of the Empire State Building with a telescope and searching windows around Manhattan in the hope of finding, let us say, someone lighting a twenty-first-birthday cake".
I'm only on page 33 (where the above quote comes from) but it is a real good book.
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