Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 1999. Congratulations - you’ve just landed your dream job working on the Arecibo Telescope! With a diameter of over 1,000 feet, the telescope is so large it had to be built into a pre-existing crater. But even its physical scale pales in comparison to its provenance in the astrophysics community: the telescope had helped discover the first extrasolar planets orbiting a neutron star in 1992 (Poltergeist, Draugr, and Phobetor). Hell, it even helped win a Nobel Prize for su...