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Sidenote: how does a place like AL have so much government money poored into it?
Its like gravity. You make a divot in spacetime, and things being to roll downhill toward the divot. Mass collects, attracts other mass, and soon you have a significant planetoid. Leave it alone long enough, you have a star, or in the case of some places, a black hole. In HSV case, several significant divots. NASA MSFC, Army Materiel Command (Logistics), and the Missile Defense Agency. Caveat on living here, if WWIII…
I like the gravity analogy. Sounds like you live there.
What is the life like there? Professionally and outside of work?