Posted on 04/23/2024 9:04:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
I think the worst realization is that they only care about the paperwork when they want to care about the paperwork. Plenty of time someone important just ignores everything, does whatever they want, and says, “Screw the paperwork.” But the little people must slave away relentlessly on that massive pile of paperwork which, at a deep level, simply doesn’t matter. Except when they want to screw someone with it. Paperwork is not treated as a useful tool. It’s a weapon.
I tip my hat to your dad and his team. Very, very, very impressive engineering/manufacturing feat.
Thanks. I was in college at the time and Dad showed me some amazing technology and testing of the plutonium casks and their survivability if the rocket crashed on liftoff. Of course, at the time I didn’t have a full appreciation of the entire project. I sure wish Dad were here so we could talk about it more.
He worked on some amazing spacecraft projects from the guidance system on the Polaris missile, to the NIBUS Satellites and the Earth Technology Resource Satellite (”ERTS”) later renamed Landsat 1. He ended his career with a project so important to national security that all he could tell me was “Son, you wouldn’t believe how important this is to national security.” I later met an Air Force Captain who worked at the Onizuka Air Force Station (nicknamed the “Blue Cube”) and knew of my dad. All he could say was “Your dad was right.”
Call Clint Eastwood.
Nasa talking to space craft a billion miles away, and I can’t get my cell phone to work when I want it or stop butt calling people when I don’t want it to work.
they only care about the paperwork when they want to care about the paperwork.
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Bureaucrats Always care about paperwork: that’s how the justify their existence and how they get promoted.
It’s a shame that V-GER will merge with Lt. Ilia and a pedophile 300 years from now.
Very cool.
“I can’t get my cell phone to work when I want it or stop butt calling people when I don’t want it to work.”
LOL...I hear ya! Don’t look at the screen cross-eyed or it will call somebody. And don’t you dare brush the screen with your finger!
Persia was sofa king hot
Ahhh no so fast!! lol... theres one loser standing in the doorway with his little face mask on!!
I wonder what science data is collected out there?
Interstellar dust concentration? Random noise? Minute solar heat readings? How far to the next gas station?
I wonder if they can correlate that with the increase and decrease of ice cover in the Arctic?
If you want to get a “science study” published, that’s what it should say :) They’ll snap it right up!
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