Launchpadding one's resume

Sco Truth-1, Deutsch-0:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/po...=1&oref=slogin
The Big Bang wasn't a theory when it was the sound of the door slamming
behind his ass.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
Sco Truth-1, Deutsch-0:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/po...=1&oref=slogin
The Big Bang wasn't a theory when it was the sound of the door slamming
behind his ass.

Pat


I saw that on NASAwatch. While I don't have a problem with a chap not
having a college degree, I do have a big problem with a 24 year old
appointee being the chief PAO at NASA. I think back to when I was 24,
there was no way I could handle that kind of responsibility.

I think this really shows how important space exploration is to the
politicians. I really don't believe that this is something peculiar to
the Bush administration. What a freekin' mess!


Gene

wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:

Sco Truth-1, Deutsch-0:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/po...=1&oref=slogin
The Big Bang wasn't a theory when it was the sound of the door slamming
behind his ass.

Pat


I saw that on NASAwatch. What a freekin' mess!

Anyone still have any doubts now?

http://cosmic.lifeform.org

Thomas Lee Elifritz wrote:
wrote:

Pat Flannery wrote:

Sco Truth-1, Deutsch-0:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/po...=1&oref=slogin
The Big Bang wasn't a theory when it was the sound of the door slamming
behind his ass.

Pat


I saw that on NASAwatch. What a freekin' mess!

Anyone still have any doubts now?

Nope. We're all in agreement that we need to start making more nuclear
power plants, hook them up to thermal depolymerization plants and
convert all our garbage to crude oil, for refinement into gasoline so
we can all afford to drive SUV's.

On 8 Feb 2006 07:19:24 -0800, in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:

Sco Truth-1, Deutsch-0:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/po...=1&oref=slogin
The Big Bang wasn't a theory when it was the sound of the door slamming
behind his ass.

Pat


I saw that on NASAwatch. While I don't have a problem with a chap not
having a college degree, I do have a big problem with a 24 year old
appointee being the chief PAO at NASA. I think back to when I was 24,
there was no way I could handle that kind of responsibility.

I also have a problem with someone lying about his resume, as,
apparently, did NASA.

I think this really shows how important space exploration is to the
politicians. I really don't believe that this is something peculiar to
the Bush administration. What a freekin' mess!

Agreed. This was worse than the FEMA appointment, in terms of the gap
between the job responsibilities and the qualifications, but it was
far less consequential, since space isn't important.

Rand Simberg wrote:
On 8 Feb 2006 07:19:24 -0800, in a place far, far away,
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
a way as to indicate that:



I saw that on NASAwatch. While I don't have a problem with a chap not
having a college degree, I do have a big problem with a 24 year old
appointee being the chief PAO at NASA. I think back to when I was 24,
there was no way I could handle that kind of responsibility.

I also have a problem with someone lying about his resume, as,
apparently, did NASA.

I think this really shows how important space exploration is to the
politicians. I really don't believe that this is something peculiar to
the Bush administration. What a freekin' mess!

Agreed. This was worse than the FEMA appointment, in terms of the gap
between the job responsibilities and the qualifications, but it was
far less consequential, since space isn't important.


Lying on a resume about a diploma is a bad thing. Hell, he should have
been honest about it. That having been said, there has been many a time
I have thought about fudging the truth a bit about my college degree.
Truth is, I don't have an engineering degree. I studied Mech
engineering at Maryland for awhile, got married and entered the
wonderful world of work. Had two kids( one is autistic), which gave me
no time to go back to school. It is what makes me a materials science
technician today and not an engineer. Wish I had finished way back in
1983 though.

Gene

wrote:


I saw that on NASAwatch. While I don't have a problem with a chap not
having a college degree, I do have a big problem with a 24 year old
appointee being the chief PAO at NASA. I think back to when I was 24,
there was no way I could handle that kind of responsibility.



Well, you know what they say about heading the PAO: "Hey, it doesn't
take a rocket scientist." ;-)

Pat

wrote:

Nope. We're all in agreement that we need to start making more nuclear
power plants, hook them up to thermal depolymerization plants and
convert all our garbage to crude oil, for refinement into gasoline so
we can all afford to drive SUV's.



Nah, we skip the middle step: http://davidszondy.com/future/atomic/ford.htm
This thing would really discourage tailgating- two of them get too close
together and both may go supercritical and melt down.
I once read a proposal to keep the highways ice free in winter by mixing
heat emitting isotopes into the asphalt. I think that lead plate on the
bottom of the car might hinder its performance though. ;-)

Pat

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Pat Flannery wrote:
Sco Truth-1, Deutsch-0:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/po...=1&oref=slogin
The Big Bang wasn't a theory when it was the sound of the door slamming
behind his ass.

Pat

I saw that on NASAwatch. While I don't have a problem with a chap not
having a college degree, I do have a big problem with a 24 year old
appointee being the chief PAO at NASA. I think back to when I was 24,
there was no way I could handle that kind of responsibility.

how old was the main engineer for space ship one? I'll have to dig thru my
black sky DVDs

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Pat Flannery wrote:
Sco Truth-1, Deutsch-0:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/08/po...=1&oref=slogin
The Big Bang wasn't a theory when it was the sound of the door slamming
behind his ass.

Pat


I saw that on NASAwatch. While I don't have a problem with a chap not
having a college degree, I do have a big problem with a 24 year old
appointee being the chief PAO at NASA. I think back to when I was 24,
there was no way I could handle that kind of responsibility.

I think this really shows how important space exploration is to the
politicians. I really don't believe that this is something peculiar to
the Bush administration. What a freekin' mess!


The Bush administration does this with almost every govt agency.
They push aside career specialists with their 'true believer' team
players. Yes men. They take over and make messes wherever
they go. Just today State Dept employees are complaining that
the career diplomats are being sidelined for party hacks.
Same thing in the EPA, the Justice Dept and so on.

The whole WMD fiasco came about from the same thing.
Only party hacks deciding and the career professionals
are ignored. There's another term for this kind of
phenomena.

It's generally called Incompetence.


Jonathan

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