Yesterday, my #FuelCell testing team was awarded a #Space Flight Awareness award at work. It’s a very big honor!
We had a ceremony in the Johnson Space Center auditorium where we were presented with certificates on stage from the JSC Center Director. We even had cake after! (Sorry for my potato quality pics; my camera is having issues)
My team was amazing and they all brought their own unique qualities that enabled the project and us to be successful. 🤩🚀
“For the first time in a vacuum environment, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil, paving the way for the utilization of resources available on the Moon to sustain human presence and exploration. This process is known as in-situ resource utilization.”
> Millions of Australians face the daily frustration of delayed commutes, particularly on busy motorways. But as governments spend billions continually upgrading roads, experts say that might not be the best solution.
Going live again on my #Kick channel in a few minutes. Probably going to make this an ad-hoc, regular thing - with weekly, #engineering and #robotics educational streams intermixed in there.
Today, it will just be me working on some OnShape #CAD models with some classical music in the background. I do not plan to do much talking unless there are questions in the chat.
I am new to OnShape (having used PTC Creo for decades), so I am in a learning phase. 😅
A biotechnology company creating living tissue from a person's stem cells says it received FDA clearance for a clinical trial of its replacement knee cartilage.
#Railway enthusiasts might be interested in the #Pullman car that my company has just begun work on.
She's from 1932, and is need of a bit of refurbishment, so we're stripping her down to the bare frame, repairing anything that needs repairing, then putting her back together as good as new.
Reasons I have a lot more respect for #elonMusk than a lot of people on here:
He'd already made his millions before doing anything really significant; he could've lived very comfortably without betting all his money on EVs, spaceships etc
He cares and knows about the actual engineering that goes into his compabies' projects a lot more than he gets credit for (as attested to by other respected engineers such as John Carmack, et al.)
Whether on purpose or by mistake, I fail to see how acquiring Twitter and driving it into the ground is anything but a positive change for society
A network that shaped our present: ~400,000 km of roads connecting thousands of cities & villages.
An emblematic physical manifestation of complex adaptive systems, allowing for goods, people and cultures to flow through continents and flourish along millennia.
Boilerplate code is not a thing. Most "boilerplate" code is already covered in a library or package, and it should be used there. Otherwise, there are situational edge cases to be covered.
And unit test code is not boilerplate either. The point of unit tests aren't just to verify, but to explain problems when a failure happens. Unit tests without this are test theater.
My office at work currently has 4 women and 1 man.
I have been the “only” woman in an office full of men so many times - this is the first time it’s been reversed! And I’m having so much fun! (Sorry, Thomas, for all of the silliness!)
Inside the US military lab that makes tube food for spy plane pilots (www.popsci.com)
Pilots in U-2 spy planes rely on food in tubes for their in-flight meals. Here's how this cuisine is made, and what it tastes like.
Tear-resistant rubbery materials could pave the way for tougher tires (www.sciencenews.org)
Adding easy-to-break molecular connectors surprisingly makes materials harder to tear and could one day reduce microplastic pollution from car tires.