Imperially Correct
College & University | Learning
| September 29, 2015
(I’m in a senior-level engineering course and our professor used to work for NASA. This can lead to some fun anecdotes during class.)
Professor: “Because the ends have such a small surface area, you can neglect them in your calculations.”
Student:“What would NASA do?”
Professor: *without missing a beat* “They’d probably use the wrong units and crash into Mars.”
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