Wait I need a copy of that one on unexpected wobbling in non-wobbling systems, I need to up my ksp game
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Beware the Kraken.
NASA joke board. I've seen these type of boards all over. The best one was a board in a fiber splicing trailer.
It outlined a procedure in case you were ever lost in the woods. It involved pulling a one foot section of fiber out of your back pack and burying it. Then you just had to wait until a backhoe came through and cut it in half. You were supposed to follow the backhoe back out.
thank you OP for allowing me the opportunity to read this entire image here on lemmy prior to seeing the creator's mastodon username, so that i could believe it was real for a minute :)
(for anyone unfamiliar with it, check out her other amazing work...)
also ping and thankyou to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social (in case mentions on lemmy notify mastodon users?)
Unfortunately not real, I would have loved to read into some of them.
This one from the US government won an Ignobel : https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-12-480r
As “a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.”
Managers love this one trick
I’m intrigued by the wobble in a non-wobbling system. Perhaps referring to my dancing style?
Cognitive load of nested acronyms looks interesting. GNU is one that bakes my noodle.
It's acronyms referring to other acronyms... I don't think GNU qualifies.
GNU is a recursive acronym representing GNU's Not UNIX.
UNIX is a modified acronym representing UNiplexed Information Computing System (UNICS)
G(NU's Not Uniplexed Information Computing System) Not Uniplexed Information Computing System
now do gtkmm
GTKMM is also GTK--
GTK is the GIMP Tool Kit
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program
GNU is GNU's Not UNIX
UNIX is UNiplexed Information Computing System
Ergo: GTKMM stands for G(NU's Not Uniplexed Information Computing System) Not Uniplexed Information Computing System Image Manipulation Program Toolkit Minus Minus.
What's GNU with you?
What about Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons referring to Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth?
That one feels the most relatable as one who works in tech. Everything is an acronym, man, and most have no idea what the acronym stands for.
Fake as fuck, unfortunately. NASA-TN-D-7110, for example (second row, third column) is actually titled "Minimizing the area required for time constants in integrated circuits".
This is a cure for imposter syndrome.
Half of those are jabs at management, the other half are reasonable experiments.
I would love to see some of them, like the systems never intended to work (bottom left).
I'm not sure they are as real as OP claims, unfortunately. I looked up NASA-TN-D-6193 for you, but its actual title is "Dynamic and static wind tunnel tests of a flow direction vane".
Edit: happily, the content of the paper really is about formalizing the performance rating of a device that had been used in conditions beyond its original intended use.
Thanks. I am sad now.
I also looked three of them up on the NASA Technical Report Server and got other results.
Did you really get other results, or did you get papers that were still accurately described by the editorialized titles? On the one I looked up, the author and publication date were the same, and it really was about "the repeated survival of systems never intended to work [under the more extreme than designed conditions they were subjected to]" even if the actual title wasn't that spicy.
Oh shit, i didn't consider that... I'll look again later tonight. I wanted to check out the wobbly one. lol
"Were just throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks" - Cave Johnson, shower curtain salesman of 1943
I bet they just needed to do something, and they had ideas.
I looked multiple of these up on the NASA Technical Report Server and got other results.
The clipboard thing is wild. You can go almost anywhere with a clipboard and a lab coat.
You need a laminated ID on a lanyard, too.
Have a clicky pen, and click it constantly.
Make it clipboard, reflective vest, and hard hat for construction sites.
Clipboard and tracksuit for the training grounds of sportball teams.
Clipboard and ridiculously expensive tracksuit for Silicon Valley.
If you carry a ladder, they even open doors for you.
The meetings ine is the silliest-sounding one, but maybe they mean collision of two materials or more, rather than setting a rock on the table in the board room.