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What Would A Rocket Scientist Do?

It has been said that rocket scientists truly live and breathe the old adage, "Work hard, play hard, and miss flights hard."

Let me pose this hypothetical scenario...
What if a rocket scientist has a flight to catch at 7:45am?

Would he party hard the night before and maybe even miss his flight home for Christmas?
Would MORE than one rocket scientist miss his flight?
Would a fellow rocket science friend leave his phone in a rental car?
And would the other rocket scientists receive calls from said friend's wife wondering where her husband is?

...Will we ever know???

...And we're back!

This flowchart pretty much sums it up. ;)

Because I can cook and not break sliding glass doors

How many rocket scientists does it take to cook hot dogs? Apparently 5 on this patio wasn't enough.

How many rocket scientists does it take to put a sliding glass door back on its track? Apparently more than 3. Notice that duct tape is a rocket scientist's best friend.

This is my finger, the result of broken glass exploding from the frame.

Disclaimer: There was a very important football game on that day and everyone had had a little bit to drink in celebration.

Touché

Here's a transcript of my conversation with P this morning. This is actually a redeeming one for the rocket scientists out there. But, I did have a good idea.

Disclaimer: Disregard grammar. It was a chat conversation and I tried to keep the authenticity.

Me: you know what i was thinking
P: no... tell me
Me: phone companies should invent something like a code you can dial when calling someone that says the call is an emergency, so that the phone rings out loud even if it is set on silent.
Me: Cuz everyone has cell phones now, and no one has land lines.
Me: I was thinking of this because I was woken up by a text early this morning from my friend on the east coast. Stupidly, my phone wasn't on silent.
Me: But it makes sense. For instance, the time when the tsunami came to Southern California. My roommate had literally 47 missed calls from her dad across the country trying to tell her to evacuate. But she never saw the calls or text messages until she woke because her phone was plugged in on silent. We evacuated even though the tsunami never came. And if it was coming we probably were too late since we missed those calls.
P: that actually kind of exists already
P: there are apps for smart phones that do that with texts
Me: ya, well... not everybody has smart phones
P: you text a codeword and it forces the ringer on
P: haha, i think you are the only one with out a smart phone.
P: but they will
soon enough
Me: in the meantime before everyone in the world has a smart phone, there are still emergencies happening on a daily basis that people need to be woken up about
P: yea i see your point
Me: remember how you used to be able dial *69? It was like all the rage in the 90's.
Me: it liked called the person back or something
P: i think the problem with your idea is that you would need to give phone companies control of people's phone settings
P: and that's like invasion of privacy, right?
P: it's also technically a hard thing to do. You would have to change the method of how phones currently work
Me: how would it change the method?
P: well if you want this to work on every phone that exists. then every phone would need to be looking for this code that exists before or after the number is dialed
P: right now that doesn't exist
P: that was a lot of "exist"
P: the *69 thing works differently. that's controlled solely by the phone switching company
Me: can't it be like a collect call?
P: hmm...what do you mean
Me: like you dial an 800 number first then it prompts you to enter the number you actually want to emergency call
P: collect calls are like a relay
P: you call the number for the collecting company...then they forward to the other number
P: yea...then how does the ringer get set?
Me: I don't know...you're the rocket scientist.
P: when you dial *69 it goes out to the switching station. that code signals to dial out the number that just called
Me: why do you know this?
P: cuz im a rocket scientist

Because I read the news about space discoveries

For any rocket scientists that missed this:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/25/us-planet-diamond-idUSTRE77O69A20110825

I would have thought this would be all the buzz for our aerospace engineers, but P had no idea what I was talking about when I asked him what he thought about the discovery of a carbon planet 4,000 light years away. I guess the discovery of a planet made of diamond is really only important to women.

Because I use surge protectors

Surge protectors protect your electronic devices from power surges. Even I know to use one on my flat screen TV and I'm a linguist and a hippie and a girl.

My friend, P, works long hard hours at a aerospace company making sure everything runs smoothly and nothing blows up. P is always so tired taking care that the rocket ship is well oiled that he forgets to take care of his own electronics. P's got a big screen TV and a computer that both connect to an amplifier in his apartment. It's a rather nice little set up. Anyway, P had a vacation coming up and he was so worried about leaving work and that everything would fall apart while he was gone, but guess what, nothing blew up at work. When he returned from his fabulous vacay in the wilderness, it was his own computer at home that was busted. P never installed a surge protector in his own home, so when there was a spike in voltage in his janky apartment building's electrical system, the surge went through the amplifier which plugged right in to his computer's sound card. Luckily, his TV was turned off so his TV survived. I bet it's got to be really frustrating for a rocket scientist to not have any sound on his computer. Guess that means no World of Warcraft.