Astronomer and educator Andrew Fraknoi is seen here with SETI Pioneers Frank Drake and Jill Tarter. All three have been associated with the SETI Institute, where Tarter was a founder, Drake was the first President of the Board, and Fraknoi is the longest serving Board member.
Of the grand order of folio leviathans, the Sperm Whale and the Right Whale are by far the most noteworthy. They are the only whales regularly hunted by man. To the Nantucketer, they present the two extremes of all the known varieties of the whale. As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side.