The telescope rose from the Long Island soil like a metal flower...

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The telescope rose from the Long Island soil like a metal flower reaching for an invisible sun.

Thomas Whitmore stood at its base and looked up. It was not the largest telescope in the world—the Yerkes refractor in Wisconsin had a lens twice the diameter—but it was the most unusual. Where other telescopes pointed upward to capture light, Tom's machine pointed outward, catching radio waves the way a flower catches rain. It was built from scrap copper, salvaged spark-gap transmitters, and a...

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