Definitely a candidate for the all-Mike Reid team.
"dfosterf" wrote:
I don't know Wade, the lad might have dq'd himself.
He might be just shy of a degree in astrophysics, and I'm sure the whole econ thing is swaying you, but he ain't no rocket scientist, and I mean that literally and figuratively.
All I'm sayin' is that if he was planning on being an astronaut by getting that degree...well, I say the young man shouldn't quit his day job as a linebacker.
Oh, they got oodles of astrophysicists at NASA, but the closest they let them to a spacecraft is a television monitor. He can do that in the locker room or his crib. Your basic astronaut (and rocket scientist, or military aviator for that matter) is gonna be an aeronautical engineer, last time I checked.
Sounds like our boy barked up the wrong "gettin' my ass in outer space tree", to me. I think you should factor that in before admission onto your team.
I'm not sayin' a physics guy can't go up, hell John Glenn got a couple of physics credits by flyin' an airplane, which gave him his start.
I would argue that he got his multiple shots into space by being a military pilot, or more specifically, a United States Marine pilot. How's that for a blatant parochial shoutout? Oohrah! We get there 1st, boys and girls, lol. If Jones signs up for the Marines, I'll vote for him on your team.
"Wade" wrote: