The actual data did not look like much,
mostly line graphs showing the intensity of radiation emitted by the stars at various wavelengths, but the meaning hidden behind those numbers had us talking all at once, lost in the fever of discovery.
Not exact matches
You've likely seen the
graph of the Earth's average global temperature over the past 2000 years... it's
mostly a straight
line until you get to the industrial revolution and then it shoots up.
Eyeballing Willis's
graph, and ignoring the red
line, it looks to me like the WWII records were dominated by engine - warmed intake data, perhaps because the chaos meant much of the bucket data did not get recorded, and after WWII it was business as usual with
mostly bucket data resuming.
Each side,
mostly from the extreme edges of the field, sling factoids at one another in endless streams of numbers,
graphs, trend -
lines, echo - chamber talking - points (prepared by their own side's experts)-- spiced with an truly incredible number and variety of personal opinions presented as if they were facts.