You should volunteer here instead. You probably won't be comfortable riding on a rocket, but no one gets to do that anyway, except maybe Slim Pickens.
At the Nike site, I was amazed at how complex the technology was and how simple the people were. =) I don't think anyone there knew what was going on under the hood. One of the docents was a retired officer (battery commander, i think) who had an engineering degree although he didn't really use it since his job was to be a manager. I think the rest were high school grads without much training. I think the most highly skilled had a year of training, maybe some had two. One guy i talked to went to school (in the 70's) to learn how to write backwards. He would read radar data and then write it backwards on a glass map for generals on the other side.
This bleeding edge rocket science was supposed to be our last line of defense. And what was the last line of defense for our last line of defense? None other than that 10,000 year old technology used by cave men forefathers,: guard dogs.
Oh, cool... I refer to the Pampanito museum website about once a year, they have the best stuff, I really used it a lot when I was doing an IT Explorers class for high school students.
Comments 3
Reply
At the Nike site, I was amazed at how complex the technology was and how simple the people were. =) I don't think anyone there knew what was going on under the hood. One of the docents was a retired officer (battery commander, i think) who had an engineering degree although he didn't really use it since his job was to be a manager. I think the rest were high school grads without much training. I think the most highly skilled had a year of training, maybe some had two. One guy i talked to went to school (in the 70's) to learn how to write backwards. He would read radar data and then write it backwards on a glass map for generals on the other side.
This bleeding edge rocket science was supposed to be our last line of defense. And what was the last line of defense for our last line of defense? None other than that 10,000 year old technology used by cave men forefathers,: guard dogs.
Reply
I've still never been to that museum, darn it!
Reply
Leave a comment