Write A Proposal.

In six words.

Like this:

"Observe extragalactic Cepheids pulsate.
Measure H0."

h/t David Brin with a special thanks to PZ.
No, not that PZ, the real PZ.

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Get stimulus funding. Pay summer salary.

Detect gravitational waves. Win Nobel prize!

By FuturePostdoc (not verified) on 22 Mar 2010 #permalink

Use Buzzwords: LSST, ALMA, TMT, GSMT

Go deep with big telescope.

Find dark matter particles. Be famous.

more seriously:

Find stars between galaxies. Probe interactions.

Find progenitor galaxies to Milky Way.

Measure stellar initial final mass relation.

Discover dark matter mini-halos directly.

By johnf5007 (not verified) on 22 Mar 2010 #permalink

Simulate first galaxies. Include physics. Reionize.

Wash, rinse, document, repeat.

Define the Universe. Give three examples.

More seriously:
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Detect Higgs boson, win Nobel Prize.

Find cancer cure, run clinical trial.

By Eric Lund (not verified) on 22 Mar 2010 #permalink

Got GALEX SPITZER CHANDRA. Need HST.

By Pat Durrell (not verified) on 22 Mar 2010 #permalink

We propose to shift the paradigm.

I would claim the h0 is two words!

This is a real NSF proposal boiled down to six words:

Telescopes in classrooms. Look for supernovae.

By David Cinabro (not verified) on 23 Mar 2010 #permalink

Measure neutron star mass, radius.

By Craig Heinke (not verified) on 26 Mar 2010 #permalink