#also fuck that ship for initally not letting the workers see the eclipse

[junispring]

Literally me and everyone I work with. Its all true, we Astronomers/Physicists form tons of committees, get righteous, and gladly look at cool things at the drop of a hat. We will also gladly talk about literally anything with people (that isnt "heres my ideas about why all of physics is wrong" that will get you nothing more than being a story we tell each other when "crazy person story-time" happens).

As a side note: Astronomers/Physicists mostly drink, some do drugs, and some do sex things for thier vices. Like two of my old professors, who were a couple, I'm pretty sure were active in the organizing for the local swinger scene. Like thats just society, but the concentration feels higher.

As an even further side note: At a conference I went to, during one of the dinners, there was a moment where the speaker asked people to stop getting drinks from the bar they set up to listen to a speaker and got booed - also a dude played a pink saxaphone on a table at that dinner.

Honestly, outside of parties the most drunk I've gotten is with fellow astrophysicists. Like a group of professors and postdocs from my department go to a bar every week to drink. We just avoid bars we know students go to cause we can't let them see us sloshed and yelling at each other about either research, other scientists, committees, religion, politics, or them.

Fun fact: after the American Physical Society held their 1986 annual meeting at the MGM Grand, the entire city of Las Vegas politely asked APS to never, ever come back.

Was it because the physicists were super-smart MIT-blackjack-team forerunners who took the casino for everything it was worth? Actually, the complete opposite: they didn’t gamble. At all. After all, they knew their statistics. Most of them were broke grad students who had no intention of throwing away their stipends on fundamental misunderstandings of Poisson processes. As a result the casino gaming floor was dead. Sometimes the winning move really is not to play.