Ouch: dialog at LPSC

Seen on NASAwatch, Astronomy Magazine reports on some robust exchanges from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference

Astrophysics types who weren't there (like me) need to read this.

Update: Emily at the Planetary Society Weblog has more, operative words are "ugly" and "angry".

So is Oliver Morton over on the Nature blog

Bad Astronomer joins in the fun

From his blog I forward space.com news article
and a somewhat different perspective from Jeff at Space Politics


I'm getting really unamused hearing that people in DC "care" and "work hard".