David Kipping

had to go to a park bench, and I had to just take deep breaths.

I was like, this could be it.

This is the thing I've been searching for.

I was almost hyperventilating with excitement.

And then I remember in that moment- That's how you know you're in the right job.

Right.

Right?

Yeah.

The passion was there for sure.

That is the job for you.

Yeah.

And I remember thinking to myself, after calming myself down a little bit,

I want this to be true too much.

Like this is, of all the people in the world, I want this to be true the most.

So therefore let's flip that round and I'm gonna have to be the greatest skeptic of this thing because I know I want it to be so bad.

that I have to correct the other direction.

And it ended up being bullshit.

I mean, it ended up being the telescope just misbehaved, had this weird effect called a sudden pixel dropout effect.

This weird anomaly happens one in like 100,000 times, but it just so happened to pop right then, right there in my data.

Yeah, we're still learning that.