Braindead...

Day 2 of the ASA conference - there is only so much gravity wave theory I can take... I think my brain has dribbled out my ears. Especially when they are getting such impressive results... and they haven't managed to detect anything yet. Yes they have femptometer accuracy and yes they can put all sorts of constraints on the galaxy... based on what they haven't detected... and there has been a lot there has been a lot of money poured into not finding anything so far.
You too would be cynical after an hour or two of how to analyse the results you hope to get...
Antarctic telescopes were more interesting, though I suspect that things may prove a little more expensive than they think. Especially when they don't appear to have thought about the money for instruments and running costs, other than getting someone else to pay for it. And the fact that you get really good seeing at Dome C, but you have to put your telescope up a 30-50m tower to do so. Oddly, the 8m telescope sounde far coller than the 2.4m telescope.
But the women in astronomy session/lunch was good, even if they underestimated the lure of free pizza - all those guys who were too shy to put their hand up and be counted, but turned up anyway.

Tommorrow is planetary science in the first bit of the morning, then astronomy education and outreach, then galactic stuff after lunch. Big conference dinner in the evening, home and pack franitically, stellar session 1st thing Thurs morning, then rush home, last packing, into town, catch bus, get to Sydney, get from Central to the Airport a bit faster than we had planned, fly to NZ, get rental car (currently looking at that - how much do you pay for convenience...?)

And given Z appears to have been abducted by a SHRIMP, time to start dinner...