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November 11 - November 25, 2018
a JPL guy made a mistake logging in those three numbers.
Twenty-eight minutes later—the time required for a round-trip transmission between Earth and near Mars—the
University of California, Davis,
California Institute of Technology
Darlene Lee had been a grade school teacher until she got bored, went back for a degree in mechanical engineering,
Because Mechanical engineering tops being a teacher any day!
he had never in his life tried to change the way anything was done.
Sometimes not a good thing.
If you want people to take you seriously, better put your head down and be useful to them.
Meetings could erupt into shouting matches, but then everyone would walk out of the room unfazed and on good terms.
Yeah? I don't belive this.
University of Wisconsin−Madison.
To solve the bowling ball problem, you need to utilize Newton’s second law of motion in two dimensions: the kinematics of the eventually rolling ball and the conditions of the ball when initially released. For undergraduates, that is a lot to untangle. They often neglect at least one of the puzzle pieces.
“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
Teddy Rosevelt
we didn’t even know what the surface of a comet looked like, rough or smooth. The accumulated wisdom of science held that the material it was composed of had a strength that ranged from hard concrete to the softest, fluffiest snow.
you have to rise to the performance level of the job you want to have, which means that you have to just freakin’ do the job.
Orbiter failed because of simple confusion over units of measurement—ouch, that hurt.
but truth is, a leader doesn’t have to be liked by everyone on the team, and probably shouldn’t be.
