Andrew Smilie

I have a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Auburn University. I am married and have 3 boys growing up too quickly.

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@Mimix1907 5. Easy.

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@broadwaybabyto I took out student loans. However I lived in a mobile home during college and saved every penny I could. I paid off my loans for my BS and my employer paid for my masters degree. You have to be smart people. You need to know how marketable you will be when you graduate.

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@MatrixMysteries Borrowing for a house is the same thing. Lenders never want you to see the “final number “ after 30 years. It’s the banking system, that has been here since banks existed.

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@RBReich I paid back my student loans. It was hard, but I did it. I lived in a mobile home in college and made it work. You sign on the dotted line that government backed student loans can’t be wiped out with bankruptcy.

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@airmainengineer Two of the Gyro’s axes are strapped down.

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@GriffinPostHQ @engineers_feed You need your 3 R’s for this one.

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@HeckSpawn @curiosityonx The sea doesn’t form salt. It is the by-product of an evaporated body of salt water.

A food should be able to sustain you for a long time before you get an illness such as scurvy.

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@NSKinsella @curiosityonx Salt is an element on the periodic table.

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@elonmusk I bet you can go get the rock sample on Mars and bring it back to Earth for a quarter of what NASA budgeted.

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@elonmusk I wonder how long the feedback loop will take for the Earth to respond? We would need a good CFD model of the earth atmosphere for simulation before we send them up. I think this would work.

I would like to harness this energy to process fuel for Starship.

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@DJSnM I am an electrical engineer specializing in RF. I go without my phone for most of work days.

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@engineers_feed I have never seen a professional golfer hit a drive at 45 degrees. C is the answer using real world experience. 45 degrees is the answer for hitting a spot with no roll, as would be used when shooting a mortar in a war zone.

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@elonmuskADO Start singing Steve Miller Take the Money and Run

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@jimmybuffett This is a great venue! Glad we are keeping the party going!

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@DJSnM SLS checks off all government paperwork making it easy to share with other countries. That’s why it costs so much more money than a private company. However, the government sets the bar, and if you want to continue having a job, you just change the regulation or set the bar high

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@engineers_feed I say 7. Subtract or add two corresponding to the pie slice diagonal. Top two are together and you add 2. The left and right are together so adding two to five gives you seven.

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@engineers_feed O rings or rope and grease. Same way an engine rear main seal works.

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@ElonMuskAOC 12

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PSA: Government travel credit cards are tied to your personal credit. If a government employee makes an unauthorized purchase, the employee is responsible for covering the charge. If you don’t pay, your credit score will take a serious hit.

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@neiltyson Does it bother you that the stars we are looking at are a previous state of the universe? I would love to see what the galaxies and stars look like in real-time!