Real NASA research papers

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• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fake as fuck, unfortunately. NASA TN-D-7110, for example (second row, third column) is titled “Minimizing the area required for time constants in integrated circuits”.

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• lath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Half of those are jabs at management, the other half are reasonable experiments.

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  • Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I would love to see some of them, like the systems never intended to work (bottom left).

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m not sure they are as real as OP claims, unfortunately. I looked up NASA-TN-D-6193, but its actual title is “Dynamic and static wind tunnel tests of a flow direction vane”.

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• meow@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Were just throwing science at the wall here to see what sticks” - Cave Johnson, shower curtain salesman of 1943

  I bet they just needed to do something, and they had ideas.

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cognitive load of nested acronyms looks interesting. GNU is one that bakes my noodle.

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  • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That one feels the most relatable as one who works in tech. Everything is an acronym, man, and most have no idea what the acronym stands for.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s acronyms referring to other acronyms… I don’t think GNU qualifies.

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      GNU is a recursive acronym representing GNU’s Not UNIX.

      UNIX is a modified acronym representing UNiplexed Information Computing System (UNICS)

      G(NU’s Not Uniplexed Information Computing System) Not Uniplexed Information Computing System

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s GNU with you?

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    • LorIps@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What about Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons referring to Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth?

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• Gobbel2000@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unfortunately not real, I would have loved to read into some of them.

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  • Sphks@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This one from the US government won an Ignobel : www.gao.gov/products/gao-12-480r

    As “a report about reports about reports that recommends the preparation of a report about the report about reports about reports.”

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Managers love this one trick

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  • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m intrigued by the wobble in a non-wobbling system. Perhaps referring to my dancing style?

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  NASA joke board. I’ve seen these type of boards all over. The best one was a board in a fiber splicing trailer.

  It outlined a procedure in case you were ever lost in the woods. It involved pulling a one foot section of fiber out of your back pack and burying it. Then you just had to wait until a backhoe came through and cut it in half. You were supposed to follow the backhoe back out.

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I looked multiple of these up on the NASA Technical Report Server and got zilch.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The clipboard thing is wild. You can go almost anywhere with a clipboard and a lab coat.

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Make it clipboard, reflective vest, and hard hat for construction sites.

    Clipboard and tracksuit for the training grounds of sportball teams.

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    • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you carry a ladder, they even open doors for you.

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  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You need a laminated ID on a lanyard, too.

    Have a clicky pen, and click it constantly.

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• ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait I need a copy of that one on unexpected wobbling in non-wobbling systems, I need to up my ksp game

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Beware the Kraken.

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• cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  thank you OP for allowing me the opportunity to read this entire image here on lemmy prior to seeing the creator’s mastodon username, so that i could believe it was real for a minute :)

  (for anyone unfamiliar with it, check out her other amazing work…)

  also ping and thankyou to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social (in case mentions on lemmy notify mastodon users?)

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• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The meetings ine is the silliest-sounding one, but maybe they mean collision of two materials or more, rather than setting a rock on the table in the board room.

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• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Obviously fake Nerd Humor.

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Preliminary analysis of unexpected wobble in a rigidly non-wobbling system” is about that time when Simone Biles got the yips 😉

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