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Re: NASA Force

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Post by itsdesmond »

tjwebbnorfolk wrote: post #89
scrumper wrote: post #11

Two things: - I like the rolling Moon animation very much. - This seems like a clever way of getting talent involved during a budget squeeze, presumably with the hope that some of those they attract will still be around after this congress and the agency can stabilize once again. I guess it's also a neat kind of try-before-you-buy for both sides. NASA is prestigious and one of the very few places one could do purely…

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It’s not that you’re willfully ignorant of the critique, you already know what it is. It’s TDS. Case closed.

Pre-sorting all criticism as reflexive and not necessarily justified is a rationalization for you not trying to understand other perspectives.

Edit: it seems like my message was ambiguous. Fuck Donald Trump, I’ve got a bottle to pop when he dies and I’ll never let you fuckers live down what you’ve done.

Re: NASA Force

#102

Post by ambicapter »

dragonwriter wrote: post #62
tiberone wrote: post #36

> 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?

It is a definition; the transition between the logotype and normal text has an implicit [:}, NASAFORCE: technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. Though its an odd choice that they run it in with the paragraph of normal text rather than making that a heading. Of course, with a four day hiring window its a website that exists as pro forma evidence that the…

You skipped a word.

"NASA Force: Technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery".

Re: NASA Force

#103

Post by jmye »

rafram wrote: post #10

Another barely usable website from the "National Design Studio." I wish they'd take a cue from gov.uk (or even the US Digital Service and 18F, which they gutted) and build clean, functional, and accessible sites... but the crew of web developers who are willing to work for this administration seem way too obsessed with this defense-tech startup landing page aesthetic to care about usability. The developer of this scr…

Truly the "maximum lethality" of web design. And that's ignoring how terrible "NASA Force" is as a name. It's like it's all out of a bad 80s cartoon.

Re: NASA Force

#105

Post by 650REDHAIR »

piloto_ciego wrote: post #65
Avicebron wrote: post #29

Did anyone scroll down far enough to see the "automate air traffic controllers"? I guess technically it's aeronautics but I didn't know that was part of NASA

I saw that, I was a pilot for many years, and this would actually be kind of cool technology if it could be done right. I'm half tempted to apply. One of my customers right now is frustrated because they have the tower closed at weird hours at their principle base of operations and they can't depart flights conveniently because of staffing shortages. Clearances are a bitch too... the whole thing is kind of wild and i…

Yes, our stretched thin controllers watching the feed from a satellite field makes total sense.

Maybe they could try a pilot program somewhere like LGA?

Re: NASA Force

#106

Post by jmalicki »

hellojesus wrote: post #100
alephnerd wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'd love to work for Nasa, but I live in Portland, OR. Does this geo basically disqualify me from ever joining Nasa Yes. And it always did since the 1950s unless you were interested in relocating. Ffs aerospace engineering cannot be done remotely, and that too in a city with a nonexistent aerospace industry. > Does that mean there are legitimately no other jobs open for tech-related folks? What is the point of the…

Thanks. I was dual questioning people that likely knew the answer and lamenting my life's decisions. I have no doubt that modern engineering students have CS know-how. It's almost a requirement for the modern world. But I was curious if there were roles for things like simulation, embedded software, etc. or even general scientists that may not fall under traditional engineering. This was mainly conditional on the web…

Simulation is largely what traditional engineers do - I mean how many classes have you taken on finite element methods, discretizing PDEs, etc.? It's not web dev.

Re: NASA Force

#107

Post by alephnerd »

hellojesus wrote: post #100
alephnerd wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I'd love to work for Nasa, but I live in Portland, OR. Does this geo basically disqualify me from ever joining Nasa Yes. And it always did since the 1950s unless you were interested in relocating. Ffs aerospace engineering cannot be done remotely, and that too in a city with a nonexistent aerospace industry. > Does that mean there are legitimately no other jobs open for tech-related folks? What is the point of the…

Thanks. I was dual questioning people that likely knew the answer and lamenting my life's decisions. I have no doubt that modern engineering students have CS know-how. It's almost a requirement for the modern world. But I was curious if there were roles for things like simulation, embedded software, etc. or even general scientists that may not fall under traditional engineering. This was mainly conditional on the web…

> simulation

That's largely a Mechanical Engineering, Applied Math, and Applied Physics subfield now, not computer science. Most CS majors don't even know what an IVP is, let alone PDEs, nonlinear simulation, etc.

Most CS programs no longer require numerical methods and analysis classes which are critical for this as well as other adjacent subfields like AI/ML theory.

> embedded software

That's a computer engineering and MechE subfield now. Most CS programs don't require OS classes anymore let alone embedded programming.

> even general scientists that may not fall under traditional engineering

The job posting on USAJobs is clear. And most people who are serious about working in the space also know how federal hiring works.

Re: NASA Force

#108

Post by sublinear »

alephnerd wrote: post #71
hellojesus wrote: post #30

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…

> I'd love to work for Nasa, but I live in Portland, OR. Does this geo basically disqualify me from ever joining Nasa Yes. And it always did since the 1950s unless you were interested in relocating. Ffs aerospace engineering cannot be done remotely, and that too in a city with a nonexistent aerospace industry. > Does that mean there are legitimately no other jobs open for tech-related folks? What is the point of the…

Aerospace isn't a sacred discipline either, and education in CS has very little to do with writing practical software or conducting business.

I think you're about to find out in the next few years how much work it takes to develop a moon base and that dismissing those people as "monkeys" is absurd.

Re: NASA Force

#109

Post by ButlerianJihad »

LorenDB wrote: post #96
digitaltrees wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s not even remotely true and is a trite dismissal of legitimate criticism. Further, even though this might be an exciting concept, when put in the context of the massive budget cuts to nasa specifically it’s hard to fully celebrate what might be more a PR stunt than a meaningful commitment to science and exploration.

I don't think Jared Isaacman is interested in PR stunts. He actually seems to care about the science and exploration parts of NASA. Actually, he seems to care about all of NASA.

Isaacman definitely did not pass up his golden opportunity on Pesach to light the most epic menorah the world has ever seen!
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