Just watching
Operation Space Station: High-Risk Build. Absolutely blown away by the complexity behind the ISS, how many missions, years, teams, etc. went into piecing this thing together. Watching them assemble it bit by bit, in space, while absolutely
cruising is impressive, to say the least. It's a giant real-life LEGO set. Back in the day, I did some work at JSC on some gateway software like EFN and Chits, which you can read about a little bit in this poster:
Click here to read.. The poster is not mine, but it details a bit about Chits and EFN. While working there, it was very difficult to me to really feel like I was making a difference, because everything at NASA is just so grand-scale it's hard to feel like you're contributing at times. Seeing this documentary certainly helps to bring that feeling of accomplishment to life. In a world where it feels like we can't agree on anything anymore, it's inspiring to see engineers, scientists, and astronauts from all over the planet coming together and literally building humanity’s home in space. Makes you proud to have even a small fingerprint on that story.
Just finished watching NOVA: Baltimore Bridge Collapse — and man, I’ll tell you what, I had no idea how much goes into cleaning something like that up. You think, “big bridge falls, haul it out, rebuild,” right? Nope. Every inch of that wreck was an engineering puzzle — divers, cranes, sonar, tide charts, the whole nine yards. The teamwork and logistics alone were incredible.
Stuff like this really reminds you how much quiet genius is out there, folks just doing the work to keep the world turning. Makes you appreciate good old-fashioned problem solving — not flashy, not political, just people using brains and grit to make things right again.
