
Not a twitter blue dot then ... ?
Not a twitter blue dot then ... ?
Dr Makenzie Lystrup is the new director at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland – the biggest employer of space exploration techies and scientists in the US – and swore in using the consecrated tome beloved by many a Reg reader, Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, swears in Dr. Makenzie …
This does have me scanning my bookshelves and thinking about what "holy book" I'd use in such a situation. Perhaps _Table of Logarithmic & Trigonometric Functions_. If the situation involved my profession more directly (I write software for the asteroid detection/planetary defense community), I'd probably go with _Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics_. Plenty of good options.
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