alt.energy.renewable

"daestrom" wrote in message
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> "Morris Dovey" wrote in message
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>> 13th monkey wrote:
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>> | So now everyone is a rocket scientist?
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> | They get those degrees in a Cracker Jacks Box now too?
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> 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 ;-)
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> 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'!!"

/Nuclear-propulsion-McGraw-Hill-missile-technology/dp/B0007E5XUG
This is one of my books. You'd be amazed at what some people seriously
considered doing..... Guy I used to know was an original consultant on the
ISS design 20-30 years ago. They ditched his proposal for the mess we have
now; . Clarke is probly sleepless in Sri Lanka over it all....

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