So what did I learn...
Flying fish make great "rationality tokens"
- Multiple Populations are probably real and a problem.
I owe Bob, Jay, Chris and others an apology, they've been saying this for decades... - Intermediate Mass Black Holes are Important and Interesting.
But, we need to calm down a little bit about them. - We don't understand as much as we used to.
- Δ Y?
Really?
Maybe.
Interesting... - Somebody Really Really Really needs to go and compile a HST level quality, homogenous catalog of globular cluster parameters etc
Existing catalogs rely too much on heterogenous, largely pre-CCD data
This could be the most cited paper of all time in stellar astronomy
ie it'd get about 4.7% of the number of cites of the average "new model for dark energy" paper... - I should have paid attention when people talked about 2nd Dredge-Up...
- I don't know nearly enough about Systematic Errors in Finite Aperture High Precision Photometry.
But I will.
Do NOT mess with Alison...
DUCK Melvyn!
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