Reason not the need, but one of the first things I did when I was properly falling in love with Animal Crossing: New Horizons involved building my own version of the Very Large Array on a far corner of my island. The VLA is a telescope array in New Mexico. I’ve been fond of it for a long time and for a number of reasons. It’s in Contact, and Contact is a good film! And my uncle lives in New Mexico, so I have a sort of familial association. Not that he gives a fig about radio telescopes.
