It’s a good time to start writing again..
October 18, 2010as it’s been a busy few months on the SPIRE side. Not much free time alas to write blog entries.
I will however have a few in the next few days – and quite timely, given the results of the Spending Review will be publish imminently. Let’s put it this way, the scientific capacity of the UK will be decimated by this, and quite frankly, may never recover.
More of which anon.
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Hello, Brian, thanks for mentioning me on Stuart’s blog. This is a comment on another topic–UK spending on astronomy. Here in the US, I believe we are making a huge mistake gutting the funding for NASA. As a staunch anti-monarchist, I would like to see astronomers protest the spending of millions on that ridiculous wedding and advocate it be devoted to astronomy instead. Remember, the good of the many outweighs the good of the one (or two), and this is the 21st century, not the 14th.
I’m having a great time pursuing an astronomy degree. Hope all is well with you.
Hi Laurel, hope you’re keeping well.
As a non-UK citizen (and believer in a republican form of government), I heartily agree with you re. the Royal Wedding. I’d prefer my taxes to go elsewhere, such as proper funding for STFC and UKSA. Same deal with NASA in the US. Galling to see the budget crisis panning out in the US.
Those who have led to the current economic woes on both sides of the Atlantic have gotten away with it scot free – leaving the rest of us to mop of the mess.