From TFA: > Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a v

From TFA: > Some 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was home in the evening making chocolate pudding when he got what turned out to be a very serendipitous call from his mother. > Taking the call, he shut off the stove and stretched plastic wrap over the pot to keep the pudding fresh. By the time he returned, the cooling air in the pot had drawn the wrap into a concave shape, and in that warped plastic, he saw something – the magnified reflection of an overhead lightbulb – that gave him an idea that could revolutionize space-based sensing and communications. I love genesis stories like this. Reminds me of Feynman's plate: https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FeynmansWobblingPlate/ https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/FeynmansWobblingPlate/