if you stand on a tower outside and you u got a spyglass and you look at the clock downtown, is that clock gonna do something funny? all right, let's suppose you get another planet and you look at the clock downtown, is it gonna do something funny? how many say, hey, it'll run just like it always runs? well, not everybody. well, let me just tell you, nothing's funny. it's only when you're moving, okay? when you're moving. and so what you'd see here, you see the clock here running backward. and back here, you'd see the clock running forward. so in one eyeball-full, you'd see time going backward and forward. bizarro. lee? now it's the you that's on the planet that's seeing this, there are two yous. there's a you that's flying through space and there's a you that's on the planet. and when i was answering your question first, it seemed to me that if you're looking ahead of you, their light wouldn't have reached the telescope before you got to the planet if it's the you that's flying through the space. it's the you that's on the planet that sees the you coming down. lee, you get up here a

and then he describes that he has made this spyglass as he calls it that can be very useful for business and for military applications. and with this you could see the enemy and see, for instance. you can see the sales of their ships two hours before you could without using the telescope which would give one a great military advantage. and so after seeing one you could decide if there were too many to fight and go away before they knew you were there or you could stay engaged in battle. one thing he says that he puts down as an idea in this draft is that he would keep it a great secret. that changed, and in the final letter which still exists and is in a library in venice he says he will do a public viewing of the telescope which is what happened. he had people come in august of '69 and climb to the top and look through his telescope there. and so this is some of the nobleman in the court. it was open to them, and there were all very impressed. so he did, not just money, but granted a position for life at the university. so that was the summer of '69. one of my favorite things up this ma