VOEvent: Luck Management?

[Bob Denny]

Nice paper, thanks for passing it along! I enjoyed reading it and as you
mentioned, it is thought provoking!

  -- Bob

You said:
> A.C. Fabian of the IoA has a preprint, "Serendipity in Astronomy"

 (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.2784

> ) that makes pleasant reading.  His figure 2 locates serendipitous  
> discoveries as a volume in luck v. preparedness v. aim space.  (A bit  
> like the Pritchard Scale for evaluating poetry from "Dead Poet's  
> Society".)
> [...]