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[TROPtastic]

Wait what?? De Havilland Canada might start making the US-2???

I should have been more clear: Canada has a long history of successful water tanker development, and so they could be a great fit for ShinMaywa's tanker ambitions. Nothing is public about any collaboration though. Sorry to disappoint!

 

[TROPtastic]

Also, congrats to @Kiwi Shark for starting the first multi-page KSA thread!

 

[Kiwi Shark]

Also, congrats to @Kiwi Shark for starting the first multi-page KSA thread!

 

[Kiwi Shark]

Actually I'll share (what I can) about some news from work today. I just got assigned a new project regarding a very specific assembly that goes onto a very important moving part of a 737! More flight hardware experience to put in my back pocket I guess but this will be my life now for the next I don't even know how many months / years.

 

[servo]

Fun to see what everyone's doing! When I first started playing KSP, I was in high school, but now 10+ years later I have my undergrad + master's in Aerospace engineering and am currently working in the industry as an orbital determination specialist (I tell people my job is telling people where their satellites actually are.) I'm definitely one of the lucky few who gets to use the intuition developed playing KSP in their day-to-day job, and that's a lot of fun!

 

[Kiwi Shark]

Fun to see what everyone's doing! When I first started playing KSP, I was in high school, but now 10+ years later I have my undergrad + master's in Aerospace engineering and am currently working in the industry as an orbital determination specialist (I tell people my job is telling people where their satellites actually are.) I'm definitely one of the lucky few who gets to use the intuition developed playing KSP in their day-to-day job, and that's a lot of fun!

That's more or less my timeline too. Sounds like a cool job! I knew someone in the US Space Force that did something like that for a while.

 

[Ol' AtomicTech]

I'm currently working on a bachelor's in Electrical Engineering; it's a wild ride sometimes with the physics and math haha

 

[Piotr]

it's a wild ride sometimes with the physics and math haha

Master in Theoretical Mathemathics here. It was a wild ride with math all the time
I found my career as financial analyst.

 

[Kiwi Shark]

I'm currently working on a bachelor's in Electrical Engineering; it's a wild ride sometimes with the physics and math haha

EE is one of the disciplines I definitely always thought was for wizards. That stuff is wild, a bit abstract for my taste but surely you’ve got it sorted out. Good luck!

 

[Sumessefui]

And here I am still studying A-Levels. Hopefully I'll manage to get into Natural Sciences. (For those who haven't come across it [99% of people?] NatSci is a Cambridge-specific course that covers pretty much all the sciences). Still the lowest level of education here I think though.

 

[SSDeveloper]

EE is one of the disciplines I definitely always thought was for wizards. That stuff is wild, a bit abstract for my taste but surely you’ve got it sorted out. Good luck!

Just wait 'till you hear about RF stuff! Maybe I'll kinda understand it someday...

 

[Ol' AtomicTech]

EE is one of the disciplines I definitely always thought was for wizards. That stuff is wild, a bit abstract for my taste but surely you’ve got it sorted out. Good luck!

Thanks, I appreciate it!

 

[Ol' AtomicTech]

Just wait 'till you hear about RF stuff! Maybe I'll kinda understand it someday...

That's the stuff I enjoy in particular! I do the IEEE MTT-S & ham radio thing

 

[Kiwi Shark]

That's the stuff I enjoy in particular! I do the IEEE MTT-S & ham radio thing

I was trained at my job by a 40-year veteran in EE. He loves going to hamfests for cheap deals on equipment.

 

[MetroPietro]

I teach urban planning and policy. Completely related to launching frog/minions or kittens into space! Two thoughts: @Bruno's tagline makes me think: maybe get some Expanse tech modeled in KSA. Maybe get Ty Frank and Wes Chatham to promote the game on their podcast "Ty and That Guy". Also: 'Kittens in Space' reminds me of that wonderful old serial: 'Pigs in Space'! I guess Disney now owns the Muppets rights, but maybe someone could ask nicely if KSA could include some of them? Certainly Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker; but ideally Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem and Statler & Waldorf (as flight controllers).

 

[Kiwi Shark]

Statler & Waldorf (as flight controllers).

Something I never thought I needed until now.

"Houston we can't seem to fire the thrusters."

"We're having a similar problem, no one will fire us so we don't have to listen to you whine anymore!"

 

[SSDeveloper]

That's the stuff I enjoy in particular! I do the IEEE MTT-S & ham radio thing

I've got my general class ham license, but no HF radio to use it with... Doesn't help that I'm broke and unemployed . I've thought about building my own CW transmitter, but we don't seem to have any crystals of the right frequencies around.

I do the IEEE MTT-S

Huh, I didn't know about MTT-S, looking it up it seems to be about microwave communications research?

I was trained at my job by a 40-year veteran in EE. He loves going to hamfests for cheap deals on equipment.

I've been to a couple hamfests, and they all had so many connectors, adapters, and cables I've never seen before, along with lots of vacuum tubes, and stuff like $20 analog oscilloscopes and network switches! Good times.

 

[croxis]

Lot more exciting than me. I'm just a high school science teacher. But do I have stories.

 

[Kiwi Shark]

Lot more exciting than me. I'm just a high school science teacher. But do I have stories.

I've got a friend who teaches high school math. Stuff like geometry. She's only been at it for two years and already some stories.

Is it a particular kind of science you teach? Chemistry, physics?

 

[croxis]

I've got a friend who teaches high school math. Stuff like geometry. She's only been at it for two years and already some stories.

Is it a particular kind of science you teach? Chemistry, physics?

Freshman integrated science (everything but bio), accelerated physics, and astronomy.