who built the Golden Gate Bridge knew what they were doing?
Oh, sure, they knew what they were doing day-to-day. They were expert in spinning out steel cables and wrangling hot rivets into fish plates. They knew a lot about such things, and if you asked them about their jobs, Im sure thats what they would describe. But if you pressed them for a bigger point of view, I dont know whether youd get much past were building a bridge. The enormous change in the San Francisco area wrought by this construction was too vast to be appreciated or even foreseen. To some extent, I sense a kinship with those steelworkers here in Arecibo. The actual search for signals beamed from the warm landscapes of another planet is an exercise in minutiae. Is PDM 35 back on-line? I think weve got to revert to the previous software code Why is the pulse detector flooding out? Its all about corralling a feisty brew of digital hardware and specialized software into doing a very difficult job: computing and examining 88 million channels of radio static every three minutes. Wi
