Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!timk
From: timk@egvideo.uucp (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: NASA Bureaucracy - it's for the birds
Keywords: astronaut qualifications
Message-ID: <1896@egvideo.uucp>
Date: 23 Jan 89 00:14:13 GMT
References: <15855@genrad.UUCP> <24128@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Organization: E. G. Video Marketing Corp., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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In article <24128@amdcad.AMD.COM> phil@diablo.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) writes:
>
>It's not NASA's fault that you wasted your time on things irrelevant
>to becoming an astronaut (raising kids). 
>
>--
>Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com		{uunet,decwrl,ucbvax}!amdcad!phil
>"In Texas, they run the red light after it turns red."
>"In Taiwan, they run the red light before it turns green."

Come again? Where did you get *that* attitude from?  Did you discover time 
travel and import it from the old South? 


**Flame Off**

The POINT wasn't so much that the original author was raising kids, BUT that
NASA was arbitrarily turning down applicants with expereience because they 
didn't have a "BS" + 3 years, which is -utterly- ridiculos.

(BTW - I have a BSc EE + 'n' years)

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