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Re: NASA Force

#41

> NASA Force technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. Am I an idiot or does their leading sentence make absolutely no sense?

I mean, I can make sense of it, but it's written like it's describing a picture or something. As a standalone sentence, it is weird.

Re: NASA Force

#42

This is so weird and vague; I am not interested for fear of all of it being for space defense. Nope for me.

Technology and defense technology have been inextricably linked since the wheel and fire were new technologies.

Re: NASA Force

#43
post #8

Is this gig-workification of the space industry?

It kinda sounds like a post-doc, in that it provides an on-ramp to working in the industry/institution. But without having to waste your time getting a PhD.

> But without having to waste your time getting a PhD

Ah yes, that 'waste of times' having to learn things in aeronautics and physics..

Re: NASA Force

#44
Isn’t the Office of Personnel Management still under the control of DOGE? I’m wondering if this is an actual internship program or a way to sneak Elon Musk’s SpaceX buddies into NASA.

Re: NASA Force

#45
post #16
post #9

As long as Trump is still President every sane human being should stay away from any federal agency.

I understand the spirit of this comment (and I get it), but we want the opposite to be true. Let's find ways to support good people who step up. Edits (in case my meaning above is not clear): 1. When I write "but we want the opposite to be true" I mean this: if only Trump-aligned or Trump-tolerant people sign up for these roles, I do not think this is desirable for NASA. 2. When I write "I understand the spirit of th…

Given what we're facing, I am actually skeptical of people who step up to work for the government at this moment in time. There's a lot of nationalist language on this site. Even if your motivations are for science, do we really want to give any assistance to the goals of this administration?

Re: NASA Force

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post #41

> NASA Force technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. Am I an idiot or does their leading sentence make absolutely no sense?

I mean, I can make sense of it, but it's written like it's describing a picture or something. As a standalone sentence, it is weird.

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Re: NASA Force

#47

Why is this called Nasa Force when the linked job is for an Areospace Engineer? The usa.jobs site only shows 15 open reqs for Nasa, and they are almost all engineering roles, save a few accounting/finance ones. Does that mean there are legitimately no other jobs open for tech-related folks? What is the point of the fancy landing page (that provides zero actual info) if that's the case? No Data Science or developer op…

Yeah, there definitely needs to be more transparency about the whole initiative.

Either it's "We're hiring ~1000 IT/Engineering specialists across multiple domains" or it's "Hey, just apply on USAJobs for the open positions".

Otherwise it just feels like throwing an application into the black hole of some kafkaesque talent management system.

Re: NASA Force

#48
post #45
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I understand the spirit of this comment (and I get it), but we want the opposite to be true. Let's find ways to support good people who step up. Edits (in case my meaning above is not clear): 1. When I write "but we want the opposite to be true" I mean this: if only Trump-aligned or Trump-tolerant people sign up for these roles, I do not think this is desirable for NASA. 2. When I write "I understand the spirit of th…

Given what we're facing, I am actually skeptical of people who step up to work for the government at this moment in time. There's a lot of nationalist language on this site. Even if your motivations are for science, do we really want to give any assistance to the goals of this administration?

I think it's a bit of, "Be the change you want to see". It may not be a bad thing to get tech folk with sense into these roles. They probably tend to have enough of a cushion to be able to refuse unethical work without worrying about the immediate consequences.

Re: NASA Force

#49
post #33

This really screams and reads like a crypto scam or something, also why would they not use the official NASA logo ? This is so strange.. I'm still not even clear on what it's for..

It reads like it received no proof-reading or editing, and it looks like it was vibe coded.

Intern project?

Re: NASA Force

#50
post #34

I would love to work for NASA so much even at a significant pay cut, but almost everything I've read in the past was they still do drug screenings for a lot of positions I was interested in. Maybe someday they will pull their heads out of the dark ages.

Frankly, drug screenings for employees can only benefit NASA given the kind of work they do.
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