it IS the rocket science
Mar. 31st, 2013 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
avrelia"She made a mean beef stroganoff"
Is that about a great chef? nope. a cookbook writer? wrong again.
it is the first line from the NYT obituary for Yvonne Brill, an acclaimed rocket scientist and inventor. She died this week, and the age of 88, and many people, including me, who are not that much into rocket science and space engineering, have just learned about her and her work.
She was an awesome woman, and some of her inventions are, apparently the cornerstones of the satellite-making today, but of course, the most "important" thing is, in the opinion of NYT, that she cooked, she followed her husband wherever he worked and raised three kids.
all those things are worthwhile and not that easy, but... she is a damn rocket scientist! write about it!
http://io9.com/the-new-york-times-fails-miserably-in-its-obituary-for-464140204
slightly changed obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/science/space/yvonne-brill-rocket-scientist-dies-at-88.html?_r=0
Is that about a great chef? nope. a cookbook writer? wrong again.
it is the first line from the NYT obituary for Yvonne Brill, an acclaimed rocket scientist and inventor. She died this week, and the age of 88, and many people, including me, who are not that much into rocket science and space engineering, have just learned about her and her work.
She was an awesome woman, and some of her inventions are, apparently the cornerstones of the satellite-making today, but of course, the most "important" thing is, in the opinion of NYT, that she cooked, she followed her husband wherever he worked and raised three kids.
all those things are worthwhile and not that easy, but... she is a damn rocket scientist! write about it!
http://io9.com/the-new-york-times-fails-miserably-in-its-obituary-for-464140204
slightly changed obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/science/space/yvonne-brill-rocket-scientist-dies-at-88.html?_r=0
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