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Re:Timelessness by rodburch on Monday September 15, 2008 @04:42AM (#304445)
i'm impressed by your brevity. a lost art for sure.

real-time control is one place where science is beautiful and fun.

Re:Timelessness by DaniFong on Monday September 15, 2008 @05:30AM (#304470)
A topic you know something about?
Re:Timelessness by rodburch on Monday September 15, 2008 @05:51AM (#304476)
just enough to appreciate it. i didn't have the math skills to be a controls engineer, but i did design electromagnetic devices for a while, and totally envied the controls people who got to tie all the pieces together - electrical, electronic, mechanical, etc.

my favorite example is the video of the apollo lunar module making adjustments as it approached the command module.