Post #955446
2026-03-27 12:38 UTC
I truly love my job (seriously!) and love all the work I'm doing, but I have to admit that the 16yo boy buried decades deep inside me looks at this with a bit of envy:
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The concept is simple. “We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is,” said Jason Hopper, deputy manager for the methalox assessment project at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
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https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/nasa-is-blowing-stuff-up-to-study-the-explosive-potential-of-methalox-rockets/
#NASA #JobsNoOneToldUsAbout
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-03-27 16:56
@danyork@mastodon.social LOL part of the success of mythbusters is also that a lot of us kind of wish that we were getting paid to blow things up, drop things off buildings, etc.