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The Flight of Gifted Engineers From NASA
- deepsun 12y agoWhy modern articles are so long? 6 long pages, isn't worth it. By the way, only in English internet I see that articles are broken down on pages. I presume that's for showing more ads.
- nicholas73 12y agoThe article heavily focuses on the experience of one intern, who not unexpectedly had something of a culture shock to bureaucracy. She will find a different sort of shock in the private sector as well. I don't find this long article particularly enlightening about NASA's situation, except that budget cuts and lack of moonshot type projects aren't particularly inspiring to the young.
- drdeadringer 12y ago> a different sort of shock in the private sector as well Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines?
- EliRivers 12y agoI don't find this long article particularly enlightening about NASA's situation, except that budget cuts and lack of moonshot type projects aren't particularly inspiring to the young. Ultimately, that's where space activity should go (and hopefully will go). Over a few centuries, shipping went from having the perception (rightly or wrongly) of adventure and travel, to a base commodity. Today you could ship a 40ft container of laptops from Dalian to Rotterdam (5500 km by North-East passage) for 60 US cents a laptop, and if you're sending lots of containers, expect a bulk discount. If the cost of shipping[1] doubles, the end consumer buying the laptop won't even notice! This is where space activity should end up :) [1]: Obviously by shipping I mean the bit on actual ships; not the cost of trucks to and from the ports, which is horrifically expensive by comparison.
- nicholas73 12y agoShipping was done for items like pepper and tulips that were worth their weight in gold. Or in the case of the Spanish, actual gold.