Random Thoughts Thread

[Northwestcoug]

Your family knows you post here?

Um, yes?

They have seen me on the website and know I post here. Any sensitive or personal information about members that I may or may not know about has not been compromised, I can assure you (and anyone else in an executive position!).

[byu71]

Um, yes?

They have seen me on the website and know I post here. Any sensitive or personal information about members have not been compromised, I can assure you (and anyone else in an executive position!).

Well I surely hope they haven't seen some of the disgusting language that is on here. I mean those that don't use proper grammar and have bad speling.

[Northwestcoug]

Well I surely hope they haven't seen some of the disgusting language that is on here. I mean those that don't use proper grammar and have bad speling.

As they have mocked me many times in the past for my 'online CS friends', I doubt they have spent much time on here to notice Creekster's people's spelling mistakes.

[creekster]

As they have mocked me many times in the past for my 'online CS friends', I doubt they have spent much time on here to notice Creekster's people's spelling mistakes.

They are typing errors. I know how to spell.

[lambdacoug]

The Navy's new ZUmwault Class Destroyer begins sea trials. This ship looks like something from a sci fi movie. Any guess as to the name of its captain?

James Kirk.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/larges...144549669.html

So this is where I suppose I'll mention that my daughter enlisted in the US Navy Nuclear Program yesterday...

[wuapinmon]

So this is where I suppose I'll mention that my daughter enlisted in the US Navy Nuclear Program yesterday...

Congratulations?

[lambdacoug]

Most definitely! Now she just has to, you know, make it through the program...which is no cake walk. The only real problem is her ship out date isn't for another 10 months...

[Bo Diddley]

Congrats. I'm working with a Navy Corpsman and a couple of Marines right now. Each service has its pros and cons. Yeah, we'll not talk about the Airman we're working with.

[wuapinmon]

Most definitely! Now she just has to, you know, make it through the program...which is no cake walk. The only real problem is her ship out date isn't for another 10 months...

Is the future of nuclear reactors going to be limited to military projects?

[lambdacoug]

Is the future of nuclear reactors going to be limited to military projects?

No idea, but there will certainly be a lot of nuclear reactors involved in future military projects.

[wuapinmon]

No idea, but there will certainly be a lot of nuclear reactors involved in future military projects.

So, do people going into this plan on being lifers? I ask because I knew some guys at GaTech who were studying nuclear engineering, and they were all either in the military, planned on joining the military, or were planning on working in Europe. We were going to go to Argentina, but they had to get FBI clearance to leave the country, and one couldn't because a project he was involved in rejected his request.

[Paperback Writer]

So, do people going into this plan on being lifers? I ask because I knew some guys at GaTech who were studying nuclear engineering, and they were all either in the military, planned on joining the military, or were planning on working in Europe. We were going to go to Argentina, but they had to get FBI clearance to leave the country, and one couldn't because a project he was involved in rejected his request.

My graduating HS senior will be studying nuclear engineering next Fall at Texas A&M. I have the same concerns that the only applications will be in the military which he could not qualify for being a Type I diabetic. He has explored the field and thinks there will be numerous commercial opportunities; he's also considering academia. Maybe he will end up being a contractor for the military...I tried, and failed, to get him to study accounting.

[lambdacoug]

So, do people going into this plan on being lifers? I ask because I knew some guys at GaTech who were studying nuclear engineering, and they were all either in the military, planned on joining the military, or were planning on working in Europe. We were going to go to Argentina, but they had to get FBI clearance to leave the country, and one couldn't because a project he was involved in rejected his request.

I don't know. To be honest, I don't think she has thought that far ahead. She is very interested in robotics, so I could see her completing her obligation, going to school for some sort of engineering degree and work on robotics at NASA. That's probably just day dreaming, though if she survives Nuclear Power School it will certainly not be out of the question.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I don't know. To be honest, I don't think she has thought that far ahead. She is very interested in robotics, so I could see her completing her obligation, going to school for some sort of engineering degree and work on robotics at NASA. That's probably just day dreaming, though if she survives Nuclear Power School it will certainly not be out of the question.

My son got a mechanical engineering degree and he builds robots for the aerospace industry. NASA is one of their customers. He loves it.

Congrats to your daughter.

[bluegoose]

My graduating HS senior will be studying nuclear engineering next Fall at Texas A&M. I have the same concerns that the only applications will be in the military which he could not qualify for being a Type I diabetic. He has explored the field and thinks there will be numerous commercial opportunities; he's also considering academia. Maybe he will end up being a contractor for the military...I tried, and failed, to get him to study accounting.

A kid that grew up in my ward got a nuclear engineering degree from MIT about 5 years. After about 3 years of unsuccessfully looking for work in the private sector he went back to school and is just graduating this spring with a degree in civil engineering.