Dan York1d ago

I truly love my job (seriously!) and love all the work I'm doing, but I have to admit that the 16yo boy buried decades deep inside me looks at this with a bit of envy:

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The concept is simple. “We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is,” said Jason Hopper, deputy manager for the methalox assessment project at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
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https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/nasa-is-blowing-stuff-up-to-study-the-explosive-potential-of-methalox-rockets/

#NASA #JobsNoOneToldUsAbout

NASA wants to know how the launch industry's chic new rocket fuel explodes

We put fuel in a rocket, blow it up in a remote location, and measure how big the boom is."

Ars Technica
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@danyork

LOL

part of the success of mythbusters is also that a lot of us kind of wish that we were getting paid to blow things up, drop things off buildings, etc.

Mar 27 at 4:56pmWeb
Show threadDan York1d ago
@paul_ipv6 Ha! Isn't that the truth! 🤣