More like this
STSCI just announced cycle 16 selections...
1/5 - can't grumble too much
oversubscription was in fact almost exactly 5:1
one other proposal was top quartile but didn't make the cut. Curses.
I like that one. Plus it'd have meant even more trips to Italy.
Commenter Sastra, replying to my previous post on this subject, offers what I thnk is a perfect characterization of much of the response to Dawkins' book:
Fame! At last!
World of Physics is mine, all mine.
Hey, look at this interesting thing I just came across...
It seems likely astronomers are the most arrogant of academia!
Yay us!