@Gordon Nichols posted:I spent many a fun-filled afternoon cranking out "Ball Clash Calculations" to properly balance miniature gyroscopes at 30,000 rpm with a Texas Instruments TI-99 programmable calculator. Those gyros became part of the inertial guidance system for the Harpoon missile.
@Lane Anderson posted:"Fortunately, you don't need a lot of calculus to put together integrated circuits to make them do something." Nor do you need it to write software unless you're calculating orbital dynamics or something like that.
@edsnova posted:As an English Major I'm proud to say that I, for one, noticed that @Gordon Nichols just outed himself as a bloody rocket scientist.
As some of you know doubt already know, this means that, next time there is a get-together, he is required to face off against Kelly Frazer with Roman candles at 20 paces.
This is how the rocket scientists do it in their honor society. It's like samurais touching swords in a crowded market....
Godspeed to you both.
Lane too?
Perhaps a triangular shootout, just like in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (which is the highwater mark for art in Western Civilization).
