Ooh This one is funny:)
Sep. 19th, 2005 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stellar_muddleWhen I’m not in prison I’m an astronomer
Curiously, from a stellar spectroscopist view, the planetary stuff is far better funded and is the "in-thing". Especially protoplanetary disks and solar system formation. The stellar people appear lower on the heirachy now. Strange...
No snow here but we are about to get rain, and there are possible thunderstorms forecast later this afternoon.
The attitude of the other astronomers is that there’s no point to studying solid objects. You might as well be a geologist. The offices of astronomy departments around the country are frequently filled with gripes that somebody is wasting valuable observing time on the Hubble looking at rocks.
Curiously, from a stellar spectroscopist view, the planetary stuff is far better funded and is the "in-thing". Especially protoplanetary disks and solar system formation. The stellar people appear lower on the heirachy now. Strange...
No snow here but we are about to get rain, and there are possible thunderstorms forecast later this afternoon.
