Share your Austere August shave of the day for Monday!

  • djundjilaMA
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    1 year ago

    I may have exaggerated a little bit.

    maybe. I still want space tallow, though :)

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      1 year ago

      You know, much of my engineering career was spent working on big budget, one-of-a-kind spacecraft programs. Amazingly, space tallow never came up :) If we’re talking 60 Yg, orbital mechanics will be interesting.

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        1 year ago

        I did not know that about your career! You’re only the third NASA (or NASA-adjacent?) person I’ve met.

        orbital mechanics will be interesting.

        Yup, and we better figure out a space elevator before landing that tallow

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          1 year ago

          I have worked on some NASA programs, but most of my work was oriented towards national security.

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            1 year ago

            Now I think of you as Gene Hackman doing this 😆

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                1 year ago

                After double-checking with my old friend Rayleigh to estimate the aperture size necessary for this, your interest in orbital mechanics of huge masses makes more sense 😅