Over at Steinn's place, we're all a twitter anticipating the number of Hubble Space Telescope proposals submitted this Cycle. Fancy new instruments and shiny bad-ass spectrographs coming to the telescope, so interest should be high. Based on comments, here's proposal number versus time until deadline. I'll add any late breaking data to the plot -- post submission times (PST, preferrably, because math iz hard) in comments here or at Steinn's, and I'll add them as I can.
Apparently this is a nice exponential, so my prediction is that we'll have an infinite number of proposals this round. Update: No! Flattening off! We may not even break 1000, which is a shock! Highest number so far is 928 at 10 minutes until the deadline. Extrapolated fit uses the most recent decade in time. Any procrastinators out there have something higher? Post-Mortem: While cracking some beers with my group at 5:05 PST, ...
