Starship Asterisk*

this can be solved with differential equations and perturbation. They are studying it intensely and find that these orbits that "wobble" are actually an affectof chaos - a branch of mathematics that deals with sequences that have been iterated so much that they become random or chaotic. It...

it was like the afternoon at about 1 pm and the sun was coming throught lens or eyeshot that way

I think it was a magnification from the camera through the lens or eyeshot
I used to burn ants with magnifying glasses all the time..