I never thought I’d ever get to say something like this, but today I had lunch with a former NASA cheif engineer that worked on the Apollo missions that put man on the moon. It was bloody awesome.
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Holy hell dude! That’s fantastic!
Super jelly! 
just wow!
Did the Russian cosmonaut that just passed yesterday come up? 
I can’t remember his name 
first dude to walk in space per se
What was it about? 
do tell!
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I didn’t even know that. If it came up, it was in the few mins that I wasn’t there as I had to leave half way through a lecture to make the lunch.
I’m on the committee of the robotics society and among a lot of things that we do, we invite guest speakers from various organizations and companies. We’ve been trying to get a hold of him since last year, but something would always crop up for him. He basically talked about his experience, the moon missions in a suprising amount of depth and NASA in general. It was verging on being a lecture, but I was glued. A good joke he made was that NASA stood for Never A Straight Answer based on all the acronyms that they had and that there was a book of them that was a couple of cm thick.
The talk was recorded on the uni system, I want to get a hold of it because I missed 30 mins while setting up refreshments for the interval (the 30 mins that I was most interested in when he talked about Apollo 13 lol). If it’s available for public viewing, I’ll post a link here.
The lunch was more casual as I was part of the greeting party with 2 or 3 other committee members (we’re all frineds) and a lecturer.
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Heeeey that’d be awesome to hear! 
Super happy for you 
I know who to go for for the hook up now 
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That is really cool, and I am really happy for you
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Sounds awesome man, must have been a great experience!
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This is so awesome! Wooww what an experience! So happy for you @the_termin8r . I’m sorry you got to miss a part of it, but glad it was recorded
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That’s great to know !!!
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Lmao
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Here’s the NASA talk for those that are interested.
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Holy mother of rage, they’re back!!!
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I second that! It was actually a really really good day!
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feeling remarkably strong today 
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My 3D printer came in today. Annoyingly, I had to clear the huge pile of crap from my desk and rearrange my cupboard of dangerous chemicals. Lol
My desk went from looking like this:
To looking like this:
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Congratulations on your 3D printer
And I am curious just how long your desk is going to be clean for lol
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Not very, I’ll probably start dumping stuff on it soon again as I pass by since I don’t have the time to work on anything, won’t need the space and can get away with having a mess. lol
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