Chris Lintott’s Universe

April 27th, 2008

It’s Jodrell…Jodrell…

Posted by chrislintott in Uncategorized

It’s ironic that I’m posting this here just after writing this over here, but I have to share this with you. I suspect I recognise several of the culprits in this sterling effort but please - can we have a rock (or synthpop) version with fewer white coats, please?

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  1. Alice Sheppard said,

    on April 27th, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    You want rock?

    Will this do?

    All suggestions for improvement and any comments on the accuracy gratefully received - I don’t want to be put in a white coat myself . . .

    With thanks to Dr Brian May and Queen.

    It’s a complex thing, to see complex stars,
    From radio waves, its signals came
    In Cheshire’s soil remain
    It gave us new pictures
    And Chris walked up its dish
    But the government merged funds
    Among our sciences, yeah . . .

    Jodrell, Jodrell,
    Don’t they see the light above their funded skies?
    Jodrell, Jodrell,
    They’ll take away the sight to blind our eager eyes
    STFC, where we gonna hide to discover more?

    Oh, the powers know money
    Call projects “sunset” or “sunrise”
    On the new ones they swore
    Fights for old ones starve more . . .
    Leave e-Merlin to fate
    Leave our science at stake
    But in every war’s name
    Say a prayer and spare nothing . . .

    Jodrell, Jodrell,
    Our telescope was loved and our sights were bright
    Jodrell, Jodrell,
    Tracked Sputnik 1, starburst and more
    Jodrell, Jodrell
    Don’t you want to see the galaxies?

    What is left of your money?
    Just the science at CERN
    A quantum new age
    In which we no longer learn.

  2. Alice Sheppard said,

    on April 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    Not that I’ve anything against CERN, obviously. ;-) But I did notice a lot of commentary that if you want to learn anything in the UK these days, you’d better quit astronomy and go there.

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