Curious fact about Euler's Number: Pick a uniformly random number in [0,1] and repeat until the sum of the numbers picked is >1. You'll on average pick e≈2.718... numbers!

“Are you more worried about doing things or doing the things?” This sentence marked my first week as an intern at Amazon. It is so rewarding to advance in a fast pace, take risks and learn.

Dear intern: We've all screwed something up, So welcome to the club. "That Sinking Feeling (The #HugOps Song)"

Picture perfect landing in the West Texas desert! #NSFirstHumanFlight

Extensions of the Integral Symbol: ∫ - Integral ∬,∭,⨌ - Double/Triple/Quadruple Integral ∮ - Contour integral ∱ - Clockwise integral ⨑ - Counterclockwise integral ∲ - Clockwise contour integral ∳ - Counterclockwise contour integral ∯,∰ - Closed surface/volume integral

Want to join MASA? Come visit us at Festifall next Tuesday! We'll be at the Grove on North Campus between 5 and 8. Have questions? DM us or reply to this post. You can also learn more and contact our team at the link in our bio! 🧵

During ops, this turns into a workspace with areas for critical work and running tests! The outside is wrapped, allowing to us rep Michigan and our sponsors across the country. We plan to use this for remote testing and lauches, so look forward to seeing Bünkerwagen some more!

Even through my battle with cancer, I smiled, persevered, and when I was cured at St. Jude, I felt like I was on top of the world. 💛 19 years later, still smiling, I became an astronaut with Inspiration4 and quite literally made it to the top of the world 👩‍🚀🚀🌎

Graph yourself!

Here's the pattern created by tangent lines to the sine function.

Ludwig Prandtl was born this day in 1875. A major player in fluid dynamics, his 1904 paper (translated below) introduced the notion of a boundary layer and its importance on drag and stall. This image shows experiments he performed of flow past a cylinder. ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/…

Our Michigan Engineering #ImmersedStudentSpotlight is José Luiz Vargas de Mendonça! How do you #PracticeYourPurpose? José Vargas UM Engin Honors Wilson Student Team Project Center Michigan Aerospace Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan

LaTeX was only released in 1984. In the pre-LaTeX era it was common for papers to have hand written formulas and diagrams. Here is a Richard Feynman's PhD thesis, published in 1942.

The famous 1948 Alpher–Bethe–Gamow physics paper (αβγ paper) on cosmic nucleosynthesis was published with Bethe's name, unbeknownst to him, as a practical joke by Gamow to rhyme with the Greek alphabet.

A beautiful spring morning in the Francois Xavier Bagnoud building on North Campus, our #Aerospace home. How lucky are we?

No better way to work in harnessing than watching Disney and Pixar's Turning Red!

Our test team was working hard last weekend on some integrated waterflows/cryoflows of our system, as we begin our engine test campaign!

Also found in the office are 31-year-old college course notes (1991, my 2nd year at Tokai University): classical thin-airfoil theory (薄翼理論) and lifting-line theory (揚力線理論). Later at some point, I started to translate all course notes in English in each day.

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Super excited to be in Brazil for launch of Starlink for 19,000 unconnected schools in rural areas & environmental monitoring of Amazon! 🇧🇷 🌳 🛰 ♥️