Monday, December 3, 2007

On Proposal Season

"I’m telling you, if a giant asteroid were going to hit the earth in a week, the first question academics would ask would be how to beat out competing proposals for the $50-million “Deflection of Space-Based Objects” initiative at NSF."

From Scott Aaronson, via Angry Physics.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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