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estebanana -> RE: New Saddle Changes the sound (Oct. 27 2025 17:02:13)
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ORIGINAL: rombsix
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I study Electrical Systems and Engineering Management.
My dad is an electrical engineer. He was one of the first people in the world to design control systems for airplanes. He was recruited by NASA to design missile guidance systems, but he refused to participate in designing weapons, so he left the US and went back to Beirut. Little did he know a couple of years later, a fifteen-year civil war would break out, and the entire country would plunge into darkness. He then became the country's major manufacturer of uninterrupted power supplies (so we could have the TV on to listen to the news of when / where the bombs will be falling next).
I'm now getting an MBA in healthcare management. [8D]
Perhaps your dad was working for another dept. NASA never was a weapon development agency, its mission is peaceful. It’s an astrophysics and rocketry - science exploration program. There are other sectors in the U.S. government that would oversee guidance systems for weapons, but specifically NASA kind of reverse engineers weapons systems and breaks out the parts that can be used for civic exploration. It’s been that way from the beginning when NASA grabbed Axis scientists and redirected their work to spacecraft development. Which was also political project, but NASA isn’t really a weapons program. Guidance systems are adaptive to both military and scientific use. My step father was as also an engineer and worked in aerospace.
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