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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Achan hiArusa" data-source="post: 1872987" data-attributes="member: 2597">AstronomyI know, I had a friend of mine who was doing here English dissertation on an early American writer and his influences on later American writers.  She had almost 300 library books to return when she was done, which is probably closer to the number you had.  His name escapes me, but I have an unopened copy of a book she had a duplicate of.Astronomy has gotten to the point where all I do is stare at a computer screen.  We take (lots of) pictures of the night sky with a CCD camera which downloads everything directly into a computer (Mac G4), then all these pictures and run them through a program that measures how bright each star in each picture and creates a graph of the brightness over time.  And then hopefully we will find a change in brightness that is too small to be a star and too big to be noise and the wrong speed to be a starspot.  I have a full CD-Rom of articles that I have needed to reference for my thesis.  But once I get my pictures I can download them into a laptop and do all the work at the coffee house on campus (or from the kitchen table).My PhD will be the lab work.  I'll be growing archaea (bacteria-like critters) and then reading their methane emissions (and the rate they consume carbon dioxide).  Plus I will be working with technologically/mathematically impaired biologists, so guess who gets to the the repair work, programming, and statistically analysis?</blockquote>

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