howstuffworks: inothernews: huffpostscience: Meet Bobak Ferdowsi, the coolest dude at NASA: http://huff.to/RPyGOb So there are scores if not hundreds of scientists and engineers on NASA’s Curiosity team, and this guy is the “coolest” because… he sported a mohawk? Nah.  The whole damned team is the coolest because they built this car-sized rover with a chunk of plutonium inside; launched it into space; got it into orbit around Mars; then set off an incredible sequence that would probably give regular folks heart attacks in landing the Curiosity on Mars — which can range in distance from 34 to 250 million miles away from Earth — apparently without a hitch. That’s what makes them cool.  Not a mohawk, sorry. Agreed. They are all rock-stars (pun!). — and sincerest apologies for bad jokes today. I was up late watching the landing after all: HA! Nice pun there Hillary. Maybe. Okay, it was really bad she’s right. This guy’s better at landing a rover than Tata Motor Group! Who owns Land Rover… the car… hmm. Puns are hard. Ok, I’ve got one. Obviously, this guy is seeing red! Because it’s Mars! Get it? No? Damn.

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huffpostscience:

Meet Bobak Ferdowsi, the coolest dude at NASA: http://huff.to/RPyGOb

So there are scores if not hundreds of scientists and engineers on NASA’s Curiosity team, and this guy is the “coolest” because… he sported a mohawk?

Nah.  The whole damned team is the coolest because they built this car-sized rover with a chunk of plutonium inside; launched it into space; got it into orbit around Mars; then set off an incredible sequence that would probably give regular folks heart attacks in landing the Curiosity on Mars — which can range in distance from 34 to 250 million miles away from Earth — apparently without a hitch.

That’s what makes them cool.  Not a mohawk, sorry.

Agreed. They are all rock-stars (pun!). — and sincerest apologies for bad jokes today. I was up late watching the landing after all:

HA! Nice pun there Hillary. Maybe. Okay, it was really bad she’s right. This guy’s better at landing a rover than Tata Motor Group! Who owns Land Rover… the car… hmm. Puns are hard.

Ok, I’ve got one. Obviously, this guy is seeing red! Because it’s Mars! Get it? No? Damn.

Source: huffpostscience

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