You Can't Say That On Television!

General Burnsides wasn't there to tape our classes today, so we had the crazy photography lady instead. She's not quite the skilled camera operator that Burnsides is, and she calls Dr. Vakili more unrepeatable things than Burnsides.

Yesterday was a long day. Make up class (that we didn't need, apparently - I'll get to that). Then time in the lab talking with Pete about all sorts of stuff regarding samples for characterization. On top of that, we had a seminar that was just awful. This guy wants to build solar collectors out of uranium (!). He even wants to build a giant collector over 900 square miles out in Arizona or somewhere empty to power the country. A) Uranium(!) B) Wouldn't that potentially blind the astronauts and incinerate airplanes? To top it off, he kept talking about his make-believe friend Balko. Oh, and Tom is an idiot.

Today wasn't much better. Dr. Kuperschmidt told us we'd have an extra class the Wednesday after Thanksgiving to possibly make up for missing on December 4th. But we already did that! As Blake would say, "What the junk?" Man that's annoying. What the junk, indeed?

Lunch was pretty tasty, even if we had to sit at the nerd table (my apologies to Jeff). Danger & Chewbacca made eye contact and I was momentarily powerless. Fortunately they all got up, and we were able to escape the clutches of the hangers-on with bold decisive action (getting up and leaving quietly).

We actually started talking about pressure and lift in Invscid (total geek-out). I'm not sure where Dr. Vakili wants to end up in that class, but we're getting awfully close to Viscous Flow, and not just on the calendar. I hadn't thought about it until today, but he showed how you can't have lift or drag in an inviscid flow. That doesn't seem to make sense at first, but you have to remember that you CANNOT have an inviscid flow. So, it cancels out, or something.

This got WAY longer than I thought it would. Star stuff tomorrow. Sweet.