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"Morris Dovey" wrote in message
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> 13th monkey wrote:
>
> | 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