inothernews: huffpostscience: Meet Bobak Ferdowsi, the coolest dude at NASA: http://huff.to/RPyGOb So there are scores if not hundreds of scientists and engineers on NASA’s Curiosity team, and this guy is the “coolest” because… he sported a mohawk? Nah.  The whole damned team is the coolest because they built this car-sized rover with a chunk of plutonium inside; launched it into space; got it into orbit around Mars; then set off an incredible sequence that would probably give regular folks heart attacks in landing the Curiosity on Mars — which can range in distance from 34 to 250 million miles away from Earth — apparently without a hitch. That’s what makes them cool.  Not a mohawk, sorry. Agreed. They are all rock-stars (pun!). — and sincerest apologies for bad jokes today. I was up late watching the landing after all:

inothernews:

huffpostscience:

Meet Bobak Ferdowsi, the coolest dude at NASA: http://huff.to/RPyGOb

So there are scores if not hundreds of scientists and engineers on NASA’s Curiosity team, and this guy is the “coolest” because… he sported a mohawk?

Nah.  The whole damned team is the coolest because they built this car-sized rover with a chunk of plutonium inside; launched it into space; got it into orbit around Mars; then set off an incredible sequence that would probably give regular folks heart attacks in landing the Curiosity on Mars — which can range in distance from 34 to 250 million miles away from Earth — apparently without a hitch.

That’s what makes them cool.  Not a mohawk, sorry.

Agreed. They are all rock-stars (pun!). — and sincerest apologies for bad jokes today. I was up late watching the landing after all:

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