i am a volvo mechanic sir/business owner -was-now volvo service advisor manager..therapy needed and handed out when the clients large bills are presented..
I design communications satellites. Mostly office politics plus sales & marketing along with a lot of advanced math and physics thrown in. Weird job, really.
That can happen. I'll check with the Committee Chairman. Since he retired Charlie @wristwatchb is usually available unless he's still hanging pictures. Is it getting crowded up there yet?
I'm a fitter welder and pipefitter. Currently building an ocean going barge, with two more in the pipeline afterwards.
That's a good feeling to know you have job security for at least two more repetition. How long dos it take to build one of those? What do they haul? Being a barge it's not powered, just a big empty hole in the water? Well I guess it not "just". Lighting, bilge pumps, multiple compartments and bulkheads, and other complications?
Depends on the size, number of crews working on it, etc. Usually 6 months to a year, sometimes longer. Here's a link: https://www.gbrx.com/manufacturing/north-america-marine/
I'm down on the Gulf of Mexico in an oil patch city. I see these types of vessels daily. Since we live on alluvial soil, rock and gravel is shipped in for the Department of Transportation and concrete production. Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) production and shipping is big and growing. The petroleum industry uses lots of rail, but over seas tankers happen, too. Thank for building the boats!
Well, space, it turns out, is really big. So that helps. But there are a few popular intersections in the lower orbits where traffic is not so sparse, and that has some people appropriately concerned. A few have suggested that someone should just go up and collect up all the older junk and bring it down. But when something is the size of a car and traveling twenty times faster than a bullet, catching it and slowing it down to deorbit is an expensive proposition.
I serviced commercial and residential C- and Ku-band TVRO systems back in the '80s and '90s. Never thought I'd meet someone who designs the birds. Intelsat 1 is still up there...
@BigMike @Ursa Satcom Daddy, Satcom Daddy, where have you been? There's Modern Williams, and then there's everything else. BigD
