Did you want to have a career with space stuff as a kid?

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Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

when i was a kid I wanted to be an astronomer so badly but i sucked rear end at math and so that dream was shattered :smith:

but i still love space and I get hella excited at new space discoveries so I can at least act like a kid again when I find out something new about the cosmos :unsmith:

Also post telescope recommendations itt I would love to get into stargazing again

# ¿ Feb 23, 2021 16:32

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 20:59

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

48 Hour Boner posted:

I'm a grown up and I still want a career with space stuff.

Same but idk what that would be!

# ¿ Feb 24, 2021 03:44

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Genesplicer posted:

Absolutely! I remember my dad getting me out of bed so I could watch Apollo 11 land on the moon. I had a book titled "You Will Go To The Moon" which explained how going to the moon would be a routine trip in the near future, even for kids. I was going to pilot that ship! Didn't make it, but I do teach science and am an avid amateur astronomer.

But! One of my students from my very first year of teaching got really excited by my love of astronomy and space exploration and later decided to study Aerospace Engineering in college as a result. She later got a job at JPL and worked on both Curiosity and Perseverance. So I might not do the space thing professionally, but I inspired someone else to do that, and that makes me really, really proud.

I'm melting right now :3:

this is the most wholesome post and you get to say a little tiny bit of you is on another planet!

# ¿ Feb 24, 2021 14:59

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

AskaniSystem posted:

As a young child I wanted to be the first "astronaut-paleontologist" and go check for dinosaur fossils on the moon. It didn't work out.

Good news! There's still a chance!

https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-read...asteroid%20hit.

# ¿ Feb 26, 2021 18:34

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