While driving through New Mexico, I happened to pass the VLA site (https://public.nrao.edu/telescopes/VLA/) This one of the great Radio Telescope systems in the world. It was the feature point of the movie "Contact" and even prior to knowing about that, it had an influence on my life. In the mid 1970's, I happened to be working with one of the great acoustic scientists of the world as we studied the understanding of "Beam-forming" as it applied to underwater acoustic systems