To do that it helps to be a scientist, and Brin and Benford are both physicists.
But when David Brin, Greg Bear and Gregory Benford talk, technology leaders take note.
Bin, Bear and Benford, however, generally get the most respect from the non-sci-fi community.
Dr Benford reckons the Snake is actually something like a corkscrew shape seen side-on.
If Dr Benford's theory is right, though, it also predicts that the Snake is slowly expiring.
Writing in Reason magazine, Gregory Benford correlated public interest in space exploration with a natural desire for vicarious adventure.
Dr Benford thinks a better understanding of the Snake could give clues about how to handle similar (if smaller) structures on earth.
According to Rauch and his colleagues, Greek data are further from the Benford distribution than that of any other European Union member state.
Dr Benford reckons some of them could have built up an electric current as they moved through the strong magnetic field that pervades the centre of the galaxy.
Once this had happened, the current could gradually have extruded itself from one of the denser areas of cloud, and followed it as it drifted through space--hanging on, in Dr Benford's words, like a lamprey.
He also wrote about software agents that go out into the network and come back with any information you want. (Sound a little like a search engine?) Bear and Benford also created fictional global networks long before the World Wide Web was a gleam in the eye of its creator Tim Berners Lee.
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