First Light: the Search for the Edge of the Universe
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It resembled a bomb shelter. A second house rested on top of it—a soaring structure with walls made of volcanic boulders and glass. At the dining room table inside the house made of boulders and glass, the astronomer and geologist Eugene M. Shoemaker examined a newspaper. He read aloud: “ ‘Astronomers Locate Possible Distant Galaxy.’ ” He grinned and said, “What in the heck is this? What’s this mean?” He put on a pair of half-glasses. “Cheezus, there’s only about a hundred billion visible galaxi...es.” “I wonder which one they found,” his wife, Carolyn Shoemaker, remarked dryly. She was clearing dinner dishes from the table. Night had fallen, and a steady rain poured down. Gene dropped the newspaper on the table. He had a robust face tanned by years of prospecting for the remains of giant craters left by asteroids and comets that had struck the earth. He wore a thong tie with a clasp of Hopi silver in the shape of an eagle. He said to me, “Astronomers have essentially abandoned the solar system.
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