UK astro staggers back to life...
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
STFC announces UK participation in Gemini is back on - from astrophycisist2b
Apparently someone in admistradialand can still do arithmetic and figured out that the cost penalty of walking away from Gemini was about the same as staying in, on the relevant cost cutting time scale.
New plan is to recover costs by selling UK time...ok.
To who? We ask.
Good luck with that then.
Don't think we're done with this particular catastrophuk. Yet.
Yea, I heard this over dinner at a certain meeting. There was some idea of selling time mostly in the south.
I do know of a research university looking for some big glass. I would guess that Gemini is too expensive for them as they were balking at paying for a chunk of CalTech's share of Keck.