alt.energy.renewable

daestrom wrote:
>
> "Morris Dovey" wrote in message
> news:46f7cd75$0$512$815e3792@ ...
>> 13th monkey wrote:
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>> | So now everyone is a rocket scientist?
>>
>> There are no rocket scientists - there is only "rocket
>> science". If you had a handle on how many people worked on producing
>> that body of knowledge, you'd know that it's not a very exclusive
>> club.
>>
>> Most of the "rocket scientists" I worked with seemed to prefer terms
>> like mechanical engineer, propulsion systems engineer, electrical
>> engineer, and (mine) communications/control software engineer.
>>
>> | They get those degrees in a Cracker Jacks Box now too?
>>
>
> We interviewed a guy once who happened to have come from Russia. During
> the interview we touched on what he did for his doctoral thesis. It was
> "Study of the free-surface effects of various fluids and fluid-gas
> interfaces within enclosed tanks in micro-gravity environments." (why
> do thesis titles always have to be so long-winded ;-)
>
> Anyway, what it boiled down to is he studied fuel and oxidizer behavior
> in storage tanks aboard rockets when the engines were shut down. Later
> I kidded my partner, "We just *got* to hire this guy, we'd have our own
> 'Russian Rocket Scientist'!!"
>
> daestrom
>
I'm no genius but I know how to hire one.