[Hey, hold on, he's not a nerd, he's just a guy who knows the word syzygy and drops it in casual conversation. He scoffs, totally indignant, for real.]

It's an eclipse, so it's actually really cool. Just like the telescope. It was basically just a toy, but, you know.

[It was very cool. Idly he doodles a little telescope, or he tries to, but it comes out more like a hotdog on a tripod of sticks than a recognizable telescope. His grin softens in quiet appreciation of the banter... and he writes "telescope" under the doodle, in English, because it looks like a dang hotdog.]

But yeah, that's me. So I guess it was probably inevitable that I'd do some space-adjacent stuff eventually.