I Am A Rocket Scientist

[RacinRN]

So if anyone has questions about jet propulsion and what it takes us rockets scientists to launch a really big rocket into space, like just ask. OK?

I'm also a Quantum Physicist so if anyone wants to know about time travel, worm holes, black holes, what creates black holes and all that other kind of star stuff, just ask. And yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm the one who launched the Hubble into space. Being a Rocket Scientist and Quantum chick got me that job. I was all drunked up but it was like cool cuz there was lots of sparks and fire and stuff and I was layin' on my back watchin' all the fire and sparks going "ewwwwwww". It was like so cool.

I've also done brain surgery a time or two, so if anyone is having any headaches, if you have a cerebral aneuryism, cancer, your twin is residing in your brain, etc. just let me know and I'll do surgery on you. You'll probably have to come to my house cuz this is where I do all my surgery cuz I ain't a neurosurgeon, yet. I'm doing online courses so I can become a brain surgeon and I'll keep everyone posted on how them courses are coming along and when I have a real shop where I do all my brain surgery stuff the fine folks here will be the first to know, plus I'm givin' everyone 10 percent off your first brain surgery and 20 percent off your second. Family discounts are also available. :D

OK, throw them there hard questions at me, I'm feelin' smart today.

[Greg]

If a Black Hole is Imploding, How come it gets bigger?

Will they ever get big enough to swollow us?

[Tere]

to racin RN- you must have stayed at Holiday Inn Express

[RacinRN]

Originally posted by noppid
If a Black Hole is Imploding, How come it gets bigger?

Will they ever get big enough to swollow us?

I get these questions, a lot. So, I'll try and simply it for the non-rocket scientists of the world to understand.

You know those burn barrel's? The tall, round, metal ones? OK, imagine one of those...with the wall of the barrel being 4 billion feet thick. The inside diameter is of normal size...probably 4 feet in diameter...but the wall of the barrel was really, really, really thick. OK...got that pictured? Now...imagine a pipe bomb inside of the barrel...laying there...tick-tock, tick-tock and all of a sudden...KaBoom! It explodes inside of the barrel! What's gonna happen? You'll still have a big ole' hole inside the barrel (i.e. black hole) but the hole is gonna be a little bigger in diameter. The explosion occured inside of the hole and the end result was instead of the walls being 4 billion feet thick they are now 3, 999,999,999,999 feet thick. So the black hole (inside of the barrel) is bigger, even though the explosion occured inside. Think of Einstein's Theory of Relativity...and it should all click.

In regards to your second question....Yeah, in about a gazillion years there is this one Black Hole(called Normada Z199.69) which is gonna finally implode one last time and it's gonna swallow up the planet Earth. We expect most of us will be gone from here in a gazillion years so we like just don't care.

And here is another question I get, like all the time, so I'm gonna answer it now. Don't tell anyone where you heard this though...people tend to get a little dramatic over this bit of information.

You remember the moon landing? Where those dudes walked on the moon for the first time and waved at us and planted a flag and crap? I have two words for you on that one...Hollywood movie set. ;) (OK, that was like 3 words, sorry about that).

Until next time...may the alien residing inside of you prosper and grow!

[RacinRN]

Originally posted by Tere
to racin RN- you must have stayed at Holiday Inn Express

Ew! I did. And I gotta say the S-E-X was great and I came away a verrrrry educated woman. I'm gonna stay there again and become a Nuclear Physicist and a Wine Maker! Who said you don't get a heckuva education staying at a hotel. :D

[brent]

And I thought I was the only rocket scientist who also did amateur brain surgery as a hobby. After all, as long as I have the drill anyway, might as well lobotomize a few volunteers anyway. :-)

[RacinRN]

Dude! Finally someone who thinks the way I do! We should like go into practice together or something. You got a basement or a laboratory? Hey, I just bought a new Craftsman Cordless Drill...it like works so well for brain surgery and building rockets. That way the cord doesn't get into the gray matter and stuff, you know it being cordless and all. I bet you have lots of nice tools. ;)

No one seems to understand us brain surgeon/rocket scientists! Or as I like to call myself...a Rocket Surgeon. Kinda combines both of my hobbies. You can go ahead and call yourself that too if ya want.

:D

[brent]

Racin,
It's great to know that there's another Rocket Surgeon on the loose. Other than the assorted drills (the new 18V Ryobi cordless can blow through a skull in seconds), I've found that dremel tools have excellent uses both for rocketry and surgery.

You'll definitely have to come to one of my launches sometime soon and I'll make very sure you have a good time. ;-)

[RacinRN]

Ew, cool. I love launching stuff and making big explosions. Not everyone can be a rocket scientist/surgeon either, ya know. Oh, I just got a Snap-On Catalog and I've been looking through the various tools to add to my collection and I think if we get our tools together we could have quite a good time. :)

I got a Dremel for Christmas last year. I love it. It's cool you have one, too! I just love power tools. They make me all excited. Oh, and I love routers. I want a $40,000 Cisco router for my very own. They excite me, too. Do you like Networks? We can build some together. I'm just learning Networking, but I know all about hubs, bridges, switches and routers. And if you mention Ethernet to me I get goosebumps. And don't even mention multimode fiberoptics to me or I'll just launch myself cuz I'll be so excited. I'll teach you if you don't know then you can be a Network Administrator, too! We're gonna have fun together, I can just tell.



I'd love to come to one of your launches. And I'm sure we can find some poor soul in the alley, holding a bottle of Thunderbird, who needs brain surgery. :D It would be cool.

[brent]

I spend much of my day trying to convince a network to cooperate (gotta do something to support my rocketry and surgery habits).

Need to run. Have to drive over to Brandon to crash a few rockets.

P.S. Wireless Bridge! Ethernet! Multimode Fiberoptics!!!!

[RacinRN]

Oh, sure....say all those exciting words to me right as your running out the door. ;) Now I'm going to spend the day fantasizing about hardware! ;)

Hope you had fun crashing rockets. I want a full report, plus let me know if you got to do any brain surgery with the rocket launches. I'm going to do a lobotomy on my neighbors today. They just don't know it, yet. :D

[Zero Tolerance]

i have a cisco catylist 3000 worgroup stack in line with an HP JP2601B Advance stack connected to an old Unisys PW^2 Premier mainframe server running linux

i can run over 500 computers easily right here in my 10x12 office!

and who says one cannot build a technologicaly advanced sauna!

:D:D:D:D

[brent]

Sadly, I only have about 300 computers to manage currently.

As for the launch, my intended lobotomy victi..., er..., volunteer managed to escape when I wasn't looking. Will have to get back to him next month.

One truly impressive crash of the day. An F powered PML AMRAAM kit failed to deploy any sort of recovery and went in ballistically right behind a nearby house. We heard a rather odd set of sounds linked to the impact. Closer inspection revealed the rocket had gone through some tree limbs before ripping a 4" hole in a canopy-type carport. The rocket was nose-in just 3 feet from a car.

The next best impact was an Aerotech bonus delay (12 seconds instead of the 4 advertised - no additional fee for the extra time - hee hee!) resulted in an Aerotech Tomahawk deploying 10 feet above what would have been ballistic impact with the road. Unfortunately for the rocket, the chutes opened about the time the nosecone went crunch.

[Zero Tolerance]

brent

i was talkin bout my "home office"

LOL

[RacinRN]

Originally posted by Zero Tolerance
i have a cisco catylist 3000 worgroup stack in line with an HP JP2601B Advance stack connected to an old Unisys PW^2 Premier mainframe server running linux

i can run over 500 computers easily right here in my 10x12 office!

and who says one cannot build a technologicaly advanced sauna!

:D:D:D:D

MMMM....you offer webhosting? ;)

[RacinRN]

Brent...it sounds like you had an incredibly successful rocket day. I mean what fun is it if the rocket goes straight up and doesn't take out solid objects along the way? :)
So....are you a CCNA? CCNP? Tell me more....

[Zero Tolerance]

Originally posted by RacinRN
MMMM....you offer webhosting? ;)

not on my "uber private" network....but yes...i do sell server space :D

[brent]

Racin,
I'm going to date myself here a bit. I've been messing with networks since before there were certifications, so I never bothered to get one. Guess that makes me Age+ certified. :-)

The first network that I was involved with was an old Novell network that I helped convert over to NT-based (NT 3.5). I've also had the tremendous joy of dealing with Banyan Vines. I'm very happy now to have a network with Win2K servers and mostly Win2k workstations (got a few stubborn machines clinging to Win98).

Of course, before I dealt with networks, I was dealing with a group of stand-alone systems running DOS 3.3.

Guess I'll go out to the workshop and carve myself a few 8088 chips from a stone block just to remember the good old days. :-)

[RacinRN]

Oh, gosh, you're not dating yourself! Heck, I remember the DOS 5.0 version myself. ;) Played with that one a whole lot, thinking I was super computer genius going in and changing the config.sys and autoexec.bat files to optimize my memory, change stack, etc. etc. . I thought I was super cool when I changed the C:\ ($p$g) to read C:\I AM GOD> LOL. I'm going to school for my CCNA...but I intend to go on for my CCNP or get into Health Infomatics since I am also a RN. I can see where you will be a very valuable resource, too. All the boys here (well, except for one, but I won't go there) have offered to help me through school with their vast knowledge and expertise, so I'll just add you to the list.

And it's cool you do brain surgery, too. And you do have nice tools, so we'll get along just fine. :D

[Anaconda]

DOS 5!!! You're still a Noob :p

lol... I still have a DOS 1.0 disk floating around :p (Actually I may even still have a CP/M copy as well somewhere)

I still remember setting up my first ARC-Net network. I thought it was the coolest thing.

We even had chat apps, as well as head-to-head games that we would play against each-other over the network. Those were actually some of my first big personal programming projects, writing apps to communicate over a network.

Thankfully writing network apps today is a snap compared to back then. Though I'd like to think I'm a bit wiser now too :p

Now I don't do brain surgury.. but I do have great tools :)