WaitForItDrummer
Senior Member
When it comes to science, I'm a pan-flavorist. Science, to me, is a word that describes the desire to find out everything about everything. To answer "How does this work?" for anything. Science is all about finding truth and not bullsh*tting yourself.
I have a vivid memory of being six years old and lined up with all my first grade friends ready to file out of the classroom to go home. Our teacher and her friend were asking each of us what we wanted to be when we grew up. You get the usual "fireman", "ballerina", etc. When they asked me, without hesitation I said "scientist!" My idea of what a real scientist did was probably closer to "Renaissance man". I thought a scientist looked into microscopes in the morning then they could mix chemicals in the afternoon (after hunting fossils, of course) and finally look through a telescope before going to bed. I thought my older sister was nuts when she said I would have to pick just one.
In high school I had planned on becoming a chemist but my love of music (especially electronic gear) propelled me into electrical engineering (and eventually computer science). I accidentally became a college professor and several years later developed an elective science course called Science of Sound. It's for non-science majors and I love teaching it. I have a chance to get a little more philosophical about science than the more strict engineering/technology coursework of my major students.
We were talking about something this past semester (I forget precisely what) but my enthusiasm must have been showing because one of my students just sort of shook her head and said "You are such a geek". I had to laugh. A proud laugh, I might add.
I loves me science!
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That's very cool.
I did space born environmental remote sensing, radar and optical sensors, while was a contractor at four letter space agency in Greenbelt, MD for 8 years. Now wishing I had also done acoustics.
So how about evidence for the 'extraordinarily good looking part'?