I think there is a balance to be struck — 25 years ago, universities needed to become more professional in their governance, but now the governance has become an end in itself.

Irwin was my boss at the CfA. There are many wonderful stories about him. My favorite is this. He bore a striking resemblance to Woody Allen. Someone once stopped him in the street & asked for his autograph. He obliged. I wonder if they thought Mr Allen was playing a joke signing as Prof Shapiro.

Grinding the stepper motors a bit with all the accelerations and decelerations.

(In fact, seem to have called in the Swedish Air Force for the job.)

There was a pair of them. There’s a colony that lives on the other side of the city, so I suspect wild.

The cabling got tangled around the telescope when it rotated too far in one direction — it really shouldn’t happen!

I did.

Or unscrewed.

Thank you for confirming that you are more interested in being a rebel contrarian than in actual science. Bye.

It’s a comet. That’s why the vast majority of the material it is outgassing is made up of volatiles, the way a comet does.

That would really take some doing — the car is tiny!