The Gov refuses comment because the nature of the satellite is classified

The satellite is however essentially "registered"

Which only happens if it completes an orbit or something

@StrawberryArmada that's interesting!! Do you think something spoopy is going on?

We launch secret stuff all the time. I'm kinda surprised they used spaceX but if the launch was time sensitive maybe NASA didn't have a vehicle ready.

NASA doesn't have its own launch capabilities anymore I believe

They are wholly reliant on SpaceX, Space Launch Alliance, and worse: russia

https://youtu.be/8dDRBvjcjwE

The government and SpaceX refuse to say it failed outright

Media says the gov said it failed

If it failed then we lost one billion dollars

If not why are they saying it did

I'm not sure where to ask this, but how do you guys feel about common core?

@micbwilli I'm curious about it but don't know much about it. Do you have any thoughts? I used to teach college math classes and some of the freshmen needed to be whipped into shape but I don't know if it has any relation to common core. Though I did have a lot of students asking if I would be "grading based on the correctness of the answers" to which I was like "yes lol why" and apparently a lot of high school students are NOT graded based on the correctness of their answers?? Idk if that is a common core thing or just a their schools thing though.

I don't trust it. It was brought in with no studies on efficacy. All the teachers on the ground seem to hate it.

I get nervous about a lot of these programs of dubious effect. If the outcome is equality than the mechanism is to bring down the top students, because rasping the others to meet them is not usually a possibility. One of the major backers even said CC was a way to stamp out "white privilege".

Does anyone here know Matlab? I’m taking a Matlab class and am super confused

Did you take matrix algebra aka linear algebra?

The simpler versions need you to understand basic matrix algebra concepts

https://youtu.be/j2Mu8qfVb5I

Wrong place. :P

It's appropriate, it's science

not for macgoyver though.

Odd fellow (as to be expected), but it was a decent watch.

I wasn't saying this above thing was wrong. I made a post here that was supposed to be in another section and I deleted it.

ohh lol

@Sam Southern - TN I know some matlab

Anyone in the petroleum industry?

@here ^^^

Im familiar with network engineering in the petrol industry, but I've never worked directly for a petrol company. Lots of BGP.

@Brandon Ironside- ND

@Freiheit - CA I got my degree in petroleum engineering, though I work in aviation engineering at the moment. What you need? Thanks for tag @Havamal

@Brandon Ironside- ND Looking to start a new career. I want to make my fortune. I think opening Anwar, Gull Island &c. will make for a boom in oil when they run a pipe across the continent.

@Freiheit - CA Your going to be competing against some of the biggest corporations in the world, do you plan on wildcating? I think that's going to be your only in, get in early like some of the smaller companies did in the bakkan. it doesn't help that there is record production of oil at the moment.

I must clarify. I'm looking for an entry option. Where would someone with no experience begin to end at high pay?

It's possible to walk onto a rig as a roughneck and elevate yourself to company man position if you are very competant, adverse to high stress, can pick up technical drilling intuition, and are ok with very little social life that comes with living in remote areas and a disproportionately male population. If you can handle all that there is good money to be made.

@Brandon Ironside- ND Have you worked in the oil industry? I was under the impression the boom was dead

@John O - only as an intern for a brief period. The boom is dead for now with the current oil prices. I choose to take my career into a different engineering direction after what little exposure I did have right out of college.

there still is work though, just not boom levels

Is it $120k a year like it was a decade ago?

I'm not considering it, just wondering. I know a lot of guys who made ridiculous money back then

newer engineers aren't making that anymore, senior engineers can make 200-300k still.