Astronomy Look-alikes, No. 59
It’s not widely known that the painstaking detective work done by Penzias and Wilson in confirming the extraterrestrial
origin of the excess noise that they measured, and eventually understood to be evidence of the cosmic microwave background radiation, was actually the original inspiration for the 1970s British television police drama, The Sweeney.
In the Dark 
July 13, 2011 at 6:30 am
brillant! Though they definitely had more hair in the 70s didn’t they? (Didn’t we all…)
July 13, 2011 at 7:51 am
..and wider ties!
July 13, 2011 at 9:42 am
I’ve always thought of this as the Reservoir Dogs photo…
July 13, 2011 at 6:42 pm
“Oi, Carter ! Give us your hanky. Some bird’s only gone and deposited white dielectric material on the Granada”
“Yes guv”