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I can picture a room full of engineers in ties, wearing pocket protectors full of implements, chain smoking cigarettes while coming up with this one.

• erikpukinskis 2y ago
  I can picture a black woman at a desk in a nicely pressed dress coming up with this one on pencil and paper.
  • neilv 2y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Figures
• mmastrac 2y ago
  More likely a radio nerd, John Alvin Pierce, that was just really good at radio and obsessed with oscillators (https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/60675 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/60675) that inspired a group of distinguished government-employed engineers and scientists. In fairness, there _might_ be a pocket-protector in this picture of them but it's a bit blurry. Actually, yes, there definitely is. No cigarettes, however: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/tileshop_pmc_inline.html?title=Click https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t... on image to zoom&p=PMC3&id=4487279_jres.119.004f7.jpg [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487279/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487279/
  • metaphor 2y ago
    Quick image link fix...spaces in URL broke auto-hyperlinking: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/tileshop_pmc_inline.html?title=Click%20on%20image%20to%20zoom&p=PMC3&id=4487279_jres.119.004f7.jpg https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...
    • denton-scratch 2y ago
      Damn, he's got two pocket protectors!