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:14:03
...and spend it on practical,
measurable ways...

:14:06
...to improve the lives of the people
who are paying.

:14:08
Not unlike my L-band,
globular clusters work.

:14:12
You want to do away
with all pure research now?

:14:15
What's wrong with science
being practical? Even profitable?

:14:18
Nothing, as long as your motive...
:14:20
...is the search for truth.
Which is what the pursuit of science is.

:14:27
That's an interesting position
from a man...

:14:29
...on a crusade against
the evils of technology...

:14:32
...Father Joss.
:14:34
I'm not against technology, Doctor.
I'm against...

:14:37
...the men who deify it
at the expense of human truth.

:14:44
Kent, I need to have a word with you.
Over here, please.

:14:53
You think that hurt my chances
with that interview?

:14:56
You're a priest?
:15:00
Not really.
:15:01
I got my Masters in Divinity...
:15:05
...then left the seminary to do
secular humanitarian work...

:15:08
...coordinating Third World churches.
:15:11
I couldn't live with the celibacy thing.
:15:18
You could call me a man of the cloth...
:15:21
...without the cloth.
:15:25
You want to get out of here?
:15:29
You see that large W-shaped
constellation there? That's Cassiopeia.

:15:34
And Cassiopeia A gives off
a whole lot of radio signals.

:15:38
I listen to them a lot.
:15:40
It's a remnant of a supernova.
:15:43
When did you know
you wanted to be an astronomer?

:15:48
When I was about eight years old...
:15:51
...watching the sunset, I asked Dad,
"What's that bright star over there?"

:15:59
He said that it wasn't a star.
It was...


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