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byGideon Fubar ( 833343 ) writes:
It's kinda fun. There are events that run when they expect another drop to fall.
byMr. Dollar Ton ( 5495648 ) writes:
It is the dream of every scientist - build the one experiment that you, your students and their students can retire on.
byGideon Fubar ( 833343 ) writes:
This isn't really one of those. This is funded at curio level (that is to say... not at all) and the custodians have all been people who already had senior positions in their field.
These days you sort of need to invent a whole new field for that to happen, at least in my experience... Labs don't tend to outlast their named leader (but conversely, those named leaders literally never retire).
byMr. Dollar Ton ( 5495648 ) writes:
I wasn't being serious.
byGideon Fubar ( 833343 ) writes:
I think I've just gotten used to the idea that some members of the public really do believe that ivory tower academia is the norm.
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byMr. Dollar Ton ( 5495648 ) writes:
Yeah, forget it, it was a poor attempt at a joke.
byGideon Fubar ( 833343 ) writes:
yer all good bud. no stress.
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