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RubiksCube77
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I saw an article that said that a SpaceX rocket exploded. I'm pretty sure SpaceX isn't NASA. Make RuneScape Great Again usually on at 3:00 PM PST
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28-Jun-2015 18:53:59

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2nd year Aerospace engineering student checking in.

One of the most interesting things I've come across so far in my major is that back when airplanes were initially being developed, most engineers who worked on them were also the test pilots. You can imagine that bad engineering was weeded out REAL fast, when poorly designed planes wound up killing their designers.

FYI: Dont know if its relevant to OP's idea of science, but I can try to answer any math Q's, up to Calc III as well as vector calc. (Math is sort of related? up to you) Also can help with basic mechanics, electricity/magnetism, basic eng structures, and some material science. Returned to forums after 5 year inactivity -- ignoring my responsibilities atm
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29-Jun-2015 20:51:44

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@ Bad African

Do you have to take MATLAB? I have to take it later in the fall, but i've heard some pretty nasty things regarding some of the professors who teach it where i go LOL.

Also funny story time, regarding SpaceX.

As I was poking through the comment section of some news site about Elon Musk (of SpaceX), some user was all "ELON IS A MODERN DAY EDISON!"

All I could think of was how Musk is at the head of Tesla Motors. For real, there was a pretty serious rivalry between Edison and Nikola Tesla, and the comment made me laugh. Returned to forums after 5 year inactivity -- ignoring my responsibilities atm
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29-Jun-2015 21:08:51 - Last edited on 29-Jun-2015 21:11:26 by Boomboxx3

RubiksCube77
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Hey Boomboxx3,

I just looked back at the degree requirements again, and I don't see MATLAB as a requirement. Is MATLAB a requirement for the school of Mechanical Engineering at your university?

There used to be a thread dedicated to helping people with math problems, but it got locked because no one took the OP's offer to take over the thread. I don't really see a problem with someone posting something about math since math and science are linked together. Since you're offering help on math, I wouldn't shy away from helping as well. In fact, I'll even offer help (to the best of my ability) on physics. Make RuneScape Great Again usually on at 3:00 PM PST
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30-Jun-2015 00:57:18

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I believe so, and as far as i know that's as deep into any form of programming the aero and mec* peoples at my university have to go. Most of my friends who lived on my floor this last year were in electrical, and I always poked at them because they all had to take a C programming class that drove them nuts.

Another funny story, related to Tesla/Edison and my EE friends:

Tesla was known to criticize Edison for his very tight-end trial-and-error approach. i.*., try something, if it doesnt work try something else, if it doesnt work try something else... Tesla just did the opposite, with a little more consideration into the future before acting.

I had three EE friends who were given a final project for their C programming class. Really, it was to create a working Connect 4 game with an NPC/computer. THe prof gave them this neat bonus point offer, and he was going to hold a tournament for everyone's program to see who deserved it.

One friend took a pretty heavy credit load, and so he gave up entirely on the tournament.

The second friend was like Tesla: his program thought three player moves into the future, it thought about the best possible move to make at that moment.

The last guy was like Edison: his program would try to fill up on only one column, and if the player blocked it, it would move onto the next column, and onto the next column, and again and again and again.

I swear everyone poked at him once they found his method LOL. Returned to forums after 5 year inactivity -- ignoring my responsibilities atm
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30-Jun-2015 01:24:52

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