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2.85sYou get all the fun of sitting still, being quiet,
2.27swriting down numbers, paying attention.
1.95sScience has it all.
2.25sIs that the telescope we're gonna be looking through?
3.49sYes. But you won't be looking through it. I forbid it.
2.57sBut you don't need a telescope to enjoy astronomy, Bart.
3.05sThere are all the constellations you've heard so much about.
2.47sThere's Orion, the Swan,
2.89s- the Chariot Race.
- Why don't they look anything like their names?
4.85sWell, you do have to use your imagination. Look, there's the Three Wise Men.
3.19s- Who names these things anyway?
- Whoever discovers them.
2.84sI've been hoping I could find something that would be named after me.
2sAnd you've never found anything?
2.6sOnce. But by the time I got to a phone,
4.5smy discovery had already been reported by Principal Kohoutek.
1.97sI got back at him though.
2.4sHim and that little boy of his.
2.44sAnyway, that's why I always keep a cellular phone next to me.
3.72sNow, this morning we're gonna be mapping a small square of sky that's thought to be empty.
2.07sIt's my hope that it's not.