The article has its humorous merits. "Drip-feeding" is what you do with vegetables and people in a vegetative state. Given that we are talking about mainstream
cosmologists here, that seems an appropriate methodology. I don't know if it is a
peer-reviewed methodology, which could limit its effectiveness somewhat, but whatever works to stretch out the grant funding over the longest possible time is okay by those whose business it is to distribute them, not to mention a mainstream principle of a successful, on-going continuing work program.
Just imagine if Planck transmitted just about all there is to know in the Universe over the next couple of years, and they gave it all to those effin' cosmologists AT ONCE! Overload they tiny circuits? If you guessed "yes", think again. Here's the logic: "Here's all this damned information and we've looked it over for
months now, and WE STILL DON'T KNOW HOW THIS PLACE WORKS, even after adding all the cosmologist temps from Theerez B-Us. That means we are running out of grant money to further this research and there's nothing left to research
WITH! Zounds!! We gotta get some more elegant math and study this even more closely until the observations match or can be safely tossed.
If everything in the 'Verse is expanding (according to One Theory) how in the world can they run out of data? Unless their data fails to expand with the rest of their universe, that is. But that would be
anomalous, a bad thing, and a totally unexpected surprise. (--as if there were the suspected kind lurking aboot).
Other than these few comments, the article is total BS so I am sure that they have now gotten the satellite downloaders' attention and they are "seriously forming a committee to consider this new consideration".
You know I'm not smart enough to just be making this all up, just like you know that the article must have been totally tongue-in-cheek, right? So shake it OFF! Move on. Move on.
