One night nearly three years ago, their sound was reinforced by the addition of Toby Peter, a dub-wise bassist raised in Barbados, and Pacifika was born.
"These dusty, cataclysmically forming galaxies are so rare Wise had to scan the entire sky to find them, " said Peter Eisenhardt of JPL, lead author of the paper describing Wise's first hot-Dog find.
In their absence, recent pay awards have been lower in Germany than elsewhere, says Peter Bofinger, a member of the government's committee of economic wise men.