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NASA "Mohawk Guy" To Host Radio Show
An anonymous reader writes "NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' Bobak Ferdowsi, a flight director for the Mars Science Laboratory mission that lowered the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface in early August, will host a two-hour online broadcast on Internet radio station Third Rock Radio at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, August 30. The show, entitled 'Getting Curious with the Mohawk Guy,' will feature Ferdowsi discussing his experience with the landing of Curiosity, NASA’s evolving image, and renewed interest in science and exploration."
You miss the point entirely friend. The rest of the team goes unnoticed and under-appreciated anyway. Do you remember anyone from the previous launches? Probably not, but you'll remember the guy with a mohawk.
By making himself a symbol he has forced people to recognize the rest of the team as well, something that simply would not have happened otherwise and historically has not happened since the Challenger blew up. Most people gloss right over the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster if they even remember it at all.
That a single man with a mohawk managed to focus the country's attention on NASA is not a reflection of NASA, it is a reflection of everyone that simply did not care until something unexpected and unprecedented happened. A man came to work at 1am with a goofy haircut. That is what made everyone take note of NASA again for the first time in decades, and that is the embarrassment, not the haircut but those that judge it as more significant and news worthy that the 1 ton SUV we just landed on another planet with fucking rockets.
And the worst part is that had he come to work with a "standard" haircut the coverage of this Mars mission would have ended 16 hours after touch down with the 5pm news that day.
Which goes to show you that your grandmother probably should be in a retirement home spending her last demented years try to stick nurses with knitting needles.
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Anything that might convince the next generation of voters that space is cool gets my vote. If having a Mohawk and being "hip" or whatever does the trick, then so be it.
You sound like one of those guys that was all pissed off that it took Harry Potter to get kids reading again, instead of "real literature".
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