re: NOVA transcript of show I refered to
From NOVA transcript of the Death Star program. The scare tatic is what reminded me.
NARRATOR: Fishman and Meegan went hunting for gamma ray bursts again, this time with the largest space telescope ever built, the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. The gamma ray detectors on board were the most sensitive ever designed. If there were a burst anywhere in the universe, the Compton would find it.
JERRY FISHMAN: About once a day it would see a tremendous flash of gamma rays and it would show up in three or four or sometimes more detectors.SteveS