Life on Mars: A Q&A with aerospace engineer (and meme-magnet) Bobak Ferdowsi
Ok, so today I explored a site called TED.com. Mostly, it's a really hard to navigate compendium of videos and interviews that have to do with nothing fun whatsoever. It would seem that it's purpose is educational, which isn't all bad. But my go-to search term for new websites is always "Harry Potter" and TED turned up a dismally disappointing number of results.
Finally, I started searching for nerdy things I actually like, like aerospace and astrophysics, and stumbled upon an interview with Bobak Ferdowski - the NASA Mohawk Guy and one of my favorite nerds of 2012. Second only to Chris Hardwick.
Anyway, Bobak is a pretty cool dude and I'd love to meet him one day. I love what he says in this interview about how our image of aerospace engineers is completely dated and that it's not uncommon at all for a NASA flight director to have a mohawk. How cool is that? I bet he never though 10 years ago that he'd be landing a rover on Mars and sporting the world's most popular mohawk.
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