Hey, it's Manoucheer and I gotta say that so far I am pretty unimpressed with you 2022.

It's like we back in the 2020 Bizarre world again where everything feels upside down.

But I'm trying to remember that being pushed to experience the world differently

can have its upsides. And maybe we need a reminder of that. And so here is one of my favorite

episodes from last year. It is called Through the Looking Glass. Please enjoy going to some

weird and wonderful places with me again or for the first time, just so you know we're hard at work

on an excellent series of shows coming very soon. So thanks for your patience and for listening

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I'm Anusha Zamorodi and I want to start the show on a mountain top in Chile. Eight thousand

feet above sea level at Las Campanas Observatory. Yes. Las Campanas is in the north part of the

Chile. In the hall we call the North the Chico, the small North. This is Oscar Du Halde. He is an

instrument and operation specialist and before that he was a telescope operator there.

As Telescope operator I was in charge to guide the telescope during the night.

On February 24th 1987, Oscar was working his usual shift guiding the telescope by hand,

which he says is exhausting. And we start to observe about 22 hours, 21, 32 hours.

And by 2 a.m. I say it's enough. I deserve to have a coffee at this time. So he gets his coffee

and heads outside for a break. And all the sky is special. The south side you see a lot of stars,

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