"Meanwhile, another team probed the galaxy with the Very Long Baseline Array, which comprises a telescope of such power that you could use it to read a newspaper on the moon."
- From The Milky Way Gets a Facelift in Science (http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/603/1)

Now that is just incredible. These are the things I learn while at work. Toxicologic breakthroughs? Those may come later.