The Stanford ‘Dish’

Stanford University’s 150-foot-wide radio telescope is known throughout the Bay area as “The Dish” and is the most prominent landmark in the area.

It was visible as the wife and I used to head into San Francisco and back to San Jose along a segment of the Interstate 280 Freeway between Cupertino and Daly City, on what’s been called the “World’s Most Beautiful Freeway.”

There it was, scanning the heavens and collecting all kinds of valuable data from distant galaxies.

And there we were, tiny little beings that we are, trying to pay attention to the speeding cars around us and not gawking in awe at the incredible piece of science up on the hill.