BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..

Subject: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 08:02 AM

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-090


It is always a good feeling when the job one is working produces something that gets noticed, and results in new knowledge.

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 11:50 AM

You caused the star to break up? Shame on you. :)

Seriously, it's an interesting article.

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 12:00 PM

I've heard that the men at Goddard have been wanting a little tail....

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 12:00 PM

So are you really Galex Bruce? Seriously, I don't know the mission, and it doesn't seem to tell me much on the NASA site... is it a satellite, a probe, a ground- based project using Hubble...?

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 12:09 PM

http://www.galex.caltech.edu/

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 12:52 PM

what don't you just explain what you do, Bruce? (I think I know pretty close, but bruce can say it better)

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:03 PM

Mission Operations, Flight Controller for GALEX ( and previously for TelKom 2, Optus D1, and MUBLCOM)


"rocket scientist"

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:19 PM

Most interesting! thanks for posting.

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:23 PM

Oh, hell, it ain't like it's rocket science or anything....

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:31 PM

Actually, R, it IS rocket science.


Not to say that Rocket Science is any more difficult than other endeavors. Just a different set of skills.

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:42 PM

I used to do rocket science. First we'd make the rocket and then we'd make our own solid propellant from melted sugar and KNO3. (Kids! DON'T do this at home! Trust me about this!) and pour it into the rocket and then take the rocket outside and fire it off.

By the way -- we DID do static tests of the propellant and "motor", we fired the thing off tethered, and even followed the flights that worked with inclinometers. Our data books are probably still around somewhere.

And WE didn't have any fancy-schmancy computers, either! We used
slide rules to do the math, or a paper and pencil. Back in those days we were REAL rocket scientists.

And we even managed to grow up without too many puncture wounds from exploding rockets....

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: MMario
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 01:51 PM

you notice he doesn't mention burns, blast wounds, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:24 PM

Bruce keeps track of the rocket AFTER all the noise and fireworks....keeps him from collecting all the leftover extraneous hardware...*grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: beardedbruce
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:28 PM

Hey! I get to keep ( some of) the engineering models!

Did I mention MSTI-3, DSPSE/Clementine, LACE, RME, or Deltas, Atlas/Agenas, Titans ( II and IV), Pegasus, and Ariannes?

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 02:55 PM

lol- ya know about misreading? I read MMario's post at 1:51 as "you notice he doesn't mention brains, blast wounds, etc.

Subject: RE: BS: Nice to see one's work produce results..
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 23 Aug 07 - 10:29 AM

Great project, great job! The pictures on the site make it look as though it's trying to photograph distant galaxies using flash, though, which is just a bit worse than those people whose flash guns go off in the stands of a football stadium.