"Lick Observatory ... with the 120-inch reflector."
"Oh ... an optical astronomer."
"Certainly."
"You're the first optical man I've met." He looked at me a trifle queerly.
I shrugged. "Well, we've been around a few millennia longer than you static-scanners."
"Yeah, guess so."
"I didn't realize that Project OZMA was still going on. Have you had any results yet?"
It was Rizzo's turn to shrug. "Nothing yet. The project has been shelved for the duration of the emergency, of course. If there's no war, and the dish doesn't get bombed out, we'll try again."
"Still listening to the same two stars?"