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One more to go!
So after a semester filled with Monte Carlo particle physics simulations and Magnetohydrodynamics in Plasmas, I've finally come to the last course I need to take to finish my PhD course requirements. This is according to the graduate handbook for my department so I might be missing something of course, but it's nice to know I can finally get the chance to really focus on the research I want to do!
STAND BACK WHILE I DO PLASMA PHYSICS!
The Two Feelings of Grad School
I alternate between these two about every 6 minutes.
Failure is not an Option —- The Kranz Dictum
Gene Kranz was the NASA Flight Director for the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the famous Apollo 11 landing on the moon, and the near disasterous Apollo 13 mission. On the day after the Apollo I accident which killed astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee , he gave this historic speech to Mission Control, now known as “The Kranz Dictum”,
"Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily. Nothing we did had any shelf life. Not one of us stood up and said, ‘Dammit, stop!’ I don’t know what Thompson’s committee will find as the cause, but I know what I find. We are the cause! We were not ready! We did not do our job. We were rolling the dice, hoping that things would come together by launch day, when in our hearts we knew it would take a miracle. We were pushing the schedule and betting that the Cape would slip before we did.
From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: ‘Tough’ and ‘Competent.’ Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills. Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write ‘Tough and Competent’ on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.”
Doge, PhD
A Boy And His Atom. The worlds smallest stop-motion film.
A team of IBM scientists created this short animation by moving individual carbon monoxide molecules using a scanning tunneling microscope, infact it can only be seen when magnified 100 million times. For this film the Guinness World Records awarded them the title of The World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Film.
The film uses Carbon monoxide molecules which have one carbon atom and one oxygen atom on top. The scanning tunneling microscope itself is operated at a temperature of -268 degrees celsius on top of a copper plate because copper, in combination with carbon monoxide, produced the most stable atoms for moving. The microscope essentially acts as a needle that drags atoms across a surface using magnetism.The ripples around the atoms are caused by the disturbance in electron density in the copper atoms when a carbon monoxide molecule comes close to the plate. Very similar to the way water ripples when you throw a rock into a lake.
The film was developed in California, USA and lasts for 60 seconds read more about that research here. The research is part of larger efforts at IBM to reduce the physical size of data storage on computers. It shows the story of a boy named Atom, who befriends an atom and goes on to dance, play catch, and even bounce on a trampoline.
Source video here. How it was made here. Download the movie here.
Stay tuned for some posts soon! I've been dreadful about keeping up with this, and hope to keep things going. I've always been horrible with journal habits. :)
WHEN I'M GRADING PAPERS AT HOME
This full moon, expect the unexpected: SPACE PAC
Houston, we have wakka
This is why photography makes me happy.
Saturn’s hexagon is a persisting six sided cloud pattern around the north pole of the planet. It is created by a band of upper-atmospheric winds, and the sides of it are about 13,800 km (8,600 mi) long, which is longer than the Earth’s diameter. There’s a hurricane swirling within the hexagon.
(Images by the Cassini spacecraft)
Famous scientist names, illustrated, by Kapil Bhagat.
(via my newest love, Quipsologies)
WHEN MY FRIENDS ASK ME WHY GRAD SCHOOL IS SO LONG
EATING WELL ON A GRAD STUDENT BUDGET
How I felt all week long
So NSF Fastlane (the program the NSF uses for submission of proposals, fellowship applications, etc.) is down due to the government shutdown.
I GOT DEADLINES PEOPLE, SO GET IT TOGETHER!!
Ever wondered what getting a doctorate really means? Matt Might, professor of Computer Science at the University of Utah, explains it perfectly in this graphic presentation that starts with a simple circle:
I've always enjoyed this explanation!
More work piling on every day, and probably more I'm forgetting about. 12 things on my to-do list before Wednesday. Time to call on that work ethic I really wish I had more of.....
Second proposal for research funding on my current project: denied.
......shit.
