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My ex-husband told me I was the only reason I had a job in tech, then he applied at SpaceX and flunked the hell out of the interview, then I divorced him and went to work at SpaceX.
Tech Twitter: Tell me about a time someone underestimated or dismissed you and what amazing things you’ve gone on to do since then?
RT for reach if y’all want a bunch of victory stories 😌💖
I would encourage all of y’all out there who think you can transport rocket boosters upright on the open sea during a storm better than
@SpaceX
to come work with us and teach us everything you know. No tearing down, just improving, always. 🚀
Tonight a bunch of
@SpaceX
folks were geeking out on our internal company chat platform about
#Inspiration4
and specifically how it demonstrates the upcoming accessibility of space, and surprisingly it turned into a long company-wide chat about imposter syndrome.
Yes, I went to college for Music Composition and dropped out and taught myself software and now I’ve been at SpaceX for nearly 6 years and I’m a Lead Software Engineer. Again, high school degree only.
My team is hiring full stack engineers to build and maintain
@SpaceX
's only flight software CI/CD system. We're trying to launch 144 times in 2024, come help us keep the spice flowing!
#jobs
One day I’m going to do a thread about SpaceX’s negative reputation and actually how nurturing and proactively positive it is. I’ve never experienced this anywhere else.
Last year my team at
@SpaceX
made time in our schedule to rename all of our uses of "slave" to "worker", and you know what didn't happen?
* sneaky bugs
* hunting down misses
* PC run amok
* folks not being able to understand the new terminology
* SJWs demanding more changes
Stoked to be able to announce that I have been promoted to Lead Software Engineer. I love my team and I’m happy to be in a better position to enable them to be happier and more effective. ♥️🚀🥂
Today is my 2 year anniversary at SpaceX! I gotta be honest, when I took this job I was afraid I wasn’t good enough for it. I was afraid I’d never last this long. Imposter syndrome is a little bitch who can kiss my ass. 🥂
Y’all might be putting too much faith in the ship-sensors-to-live-display pipeline. We also saw (on this same display) the ship engine indicators fail to show engines perform the landing burn, but we know that happened. We saw it on video.
@DaleCoo69075388
@thekatecole
@CaraLisette
@Kat_Says_Stuff
Hi! SpaceX engineer here. The situation isn’t great, but it’s not that bad either. Both people are experienced astronauts with long duration stays under their belts, so they’re trained for this.
A bunch of SpaceX folks watching this live right now. As much as we love to joke about rivalries and differences, competition makes us all stronger. We NEED multiple varying paths to space!
#GoAriane
!
5,4,3,2,1 allumage Vulcain! 🚀
Relive the moment the first Ariane 6 launched from
@EuropeSpacePort
, French Guiana 👇
🔊Turn the sound all the way UP ⬆️
#GoAriane
!
Another record. They said we couldn’t do one landing, then they said we couldn’t ever reuse a landed rocket, then they said we couldn’t do it twice, then 5, 10, they laughed at us when we said 20. We’re gonna keep going.
One of the biggest frauds pulled off by evangelical conservatives is that they convinced themselves and other Christians that "take the Lord's name in vain" refers to uttering the phrase "oh my god", not using God's authority to perpetrate harm against others beloved by God.
👋🏼 I'm Erin. Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. I got married in college, then pregnant, and dropped out and never went back. I taught myself and worked my way up from running a 30-customer web hosting company to Sr. Software Engineer at SpaceX.
It saddens and sometimes hurts me to see folks hating on SpaceX just bc Elon is attached to it. We're testing new vehicles to the limits on purpose. Failure is one of the best ways to learn. Humanity needs spaceships. Let us work.
It wasn't planned. He sought them out to interview. I reluctantly replied to a recruiter's email. One of us had so much confidence he sought a position he could never fulfill, and the other was afraid to try at all and then successfully shot the moon.
The entire world has imposter syndrome. But especially about space. Practically no one on Earth believes they will ever go into space. But also about literally everything.
It is absolutely bonkers how many people don’t understand the fairly new strategy of test-and-iterate being done openly, vs in secret, and see *test* failures as *program* failures.
I don't normally comment on space stuff, but Elon pulled his classic call-a-failure-a-success, and far too many are letting him get away with this, yet again. People seriously think this was a successful mission, because Elon and gang said so. Here's why it wasn't.
The facts:
#Inspiration4
is actually an amazing demonstration of the current and future state of the accessibility of space to the average person. The first part of the conversation was about addressing some takes by folks in the media, who said it's no different than Bezos & Branson.
JPL announced today it plans to lay off 530 people—about 8% of its workforce—plus about 40 contractors, citing "a lower budget from NASA, and in the absence of an FY24 appropriation from Congress."
you know, I’m pro-nuclear, but imma need you to zoom in on that middle bit and explain how we build a bunch of nuclear without electrical components, mining, batteries, concrete, steel, copper, and existing energy sources.
@DaleCoo69075388
@thekatecole
@CaraLisette
@Kat_Says_Stuff
The spacesuits aren’t a problem, this is just how spacesuits work. There are many other vehicles they can come back on. It was just a matter of building a plan and sending up spacesuits for them for a different vehicle if a different return vehicle was chosen.
I have learned so much, and I am so proud to have come into this position that I earned. I deserve it.
I am a Native woman and a college drop-out who grew up in poverty. I am here.
Today is my 1 year anniversary at
@SpaceX
! 🚀 When I accepted this job and moved from AL to LA, I was worried I wouldn't be able to cut it at SpaceX. What I found was that people doing the most exciting things in the world are just like me. 😮Go after what you want.
TO MARS!
It was a snowball of people telling each other how they appreciated each other and how they deserved to be there and confirming folks latent self-affirmations.
Of course, the first civilian mission has to be paid for, and some folks and some media outlets are dismissing this entire mission just because it has financial support from somewhere.
We started talking about how similar we are to the participants. Some of us don't have college degrees. Some of us have health issues that would keep us out of the astronaut program.
I came out to my kids today. I told them that I was bi 🏳️🌈and that while
@maxharris9
is my partner, I also have a girlfriend and a boyfriend. My 14yo said, "I know, mom 🙄" and my 11yo said, "Do we get to meet them, too? 😍🙏🏼"
🥰🥰🥰
So the SpaceX rocket that everyone is more excited about than feeding hungry people didn't work properly, blew up in a "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" (they blew it up), and people are still cheering it as a success?
The human species is doomed.
The SpaceX production team, designers, illustrators, and photographers are all the best in the game. Every Starship launch comes with a new level of visual storytelling. We take for granted how much they've pushed the medium of filmmaking.
@justsheavassar
Every time I go through TSA with my tribal ID I bring up their website on my phone which lists it as valid accepted ID so I can prove to them they don't need my DL.
This is my hometown and his family were my friends and classmates. This sweet 8yo boy was murdered by a white 10yo peer and several white parents + the Jesup Police Department covered it up.
#JusticeForNoah
Noah Bush, 8 years old, was found drowned in Jesup, Georgia in May 2024. He went out to play with neighborhood kids & never came home. After finding his body in a small body of water the sheriff’s office immediately announced it was accidental & for two months they did nothing.
for the umpteenth time, can all the “move fast and break things” people shut up already? we don’t have to blow up rockets and implode submarines to learn things. unchecked innovation for its own sake is a literal death wish.
This is not a drill: Amazon bought SpaceX launches.
Amazon's satellite internet network Project Kuiper aims to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink – and will fly on the latter's rockets to do so.
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Back on topic, we started talking about this article which criticized the mission as just more "billionaires in space," and we moved on to the participants.
@mad_brax
@atescherim
@extrafabulous
@floodums
I had an old house once where the water heater needed to be replaced, but they’d built the attic around it. Had to install a second one in the garage and just leave the ghost water heater in place.
So yeah, surprise ghost water heater.