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2013-01-20 06:11 5454888 Anonymous Ask a future astronaut anything (catstronaut.jpg 322x400 46kB)
I'm a Canadian citizen and I want to become an astronaut. I have a deeprooted, genuine passion in physics/astronomy and I'm sure I can do well in engineering. I know all of the qualifications I'll have to attain and I know I'll have to become Ace fucken Zero pilot of the year all years after I graduate. Problem is I'm 19 and haven't even started school yet. Right now I have a lazy habit from being out of school for a couple years, but when I was in school and focused I did well. I've only found 2 astronauts that graduated with their BSc at 23-24 while most graduated at 21. Any words of wisdom/advice for a /sci/ faggot who wishes to become an astronaut? I don't want to hear negative shit about how I probably wont become one. Fuck you, I'll show you.

16 min later 5454910 Anonymous (1357165574682.jpg 289x292 52kB)
>>5454888 Im just like you but im an amerifag (i'd prefer canada, actually) Right now i'm putting my hope into the mars one project because thats what ive wanted to do all my life, problem is, i dont know what i would do if i didnt make it into the program. Life would feel too empty without something like that to work towards. I think my point is, until i found out about mars one, i had no direction in life. I never really had enough passion for anything to progress in my life, but now that ive got something that motivates me, ive turned my life around and ive been doing everything i can to improve myself. If this is what youre truely meant to do and youre absolutely sure about it, you'll find a way to succeed. Keep working towards your goal and some day something will open up that you find is exactly what you want to do and youll be ready to do it. >Just take astrophysics classes and astronomy and shit and keep in shape.

16 min later 5454911 Anonymous
Nasa's site has a whole guide on becoming an astronaut. Simple googling will lead you to it. It has advice from real astronauts.

18 min later 5454914 Anonymous
>>5454910 Brofistamundo. It is my calling. If I don't become an astronaut/don't get accepted for some stupid shit, you can bet I'll be flying a commercial 747 to the fucking sun to fulfill my dream.

22 min later 5454921 Anonymous
It doesn't matter if you graduate a few years 'late' (as if there's some minimum age to graduate). Just do really well in school and stay healthy. It's tough, but people have done it before, and people are going to keep doing it.

25 min later 5454925 Anonymous
I'm in the US. I'm already working on my Physics doctorate with a minor in mathematics. I'm going into the airforce to get my life started and receive training. After I graduate I'll complete my degree and try to get another in astronomy, cosmology, or planetary science. Then I'll apply for Nasa. By that time Mars One is scheduled to send their first crew.

28 min later 5454930 Anonymous (photo.jpg 2560x1920 1180kB)
>>5454914 I know what you mean, man- and my passion is mars. Im a bit disappointed right now because mars isnt visible in the sky (except for just after sunset if youre above trees) and i like to look up at it at night when i can because the thought of setting foot on that planet just overloads my feels. The more i think about it the more i want to go and it drives me crazy. If it doesnt work out.. Hell, i'll be your copilot. Pic somewhat related. Lets fly to a pulsar instead. Because theyre fucking cool.

33 min later 5454934 Anonymous
>>5454930 I'm just having feels knowing that there's so few canadian astronauts that I'll ahve to be one great fucking superhuman to ever get accepted into the astronaut corps of canada. That means top of my class every class, top of my class during flying, well rounded individual and no bad medical history at all. Is the mars one project bringing civilians or only qualified astronauts to live on mars? If so I am gonna look into that too. Sounds fucking awesome. I may have to get a US citizenship for that though

36 min later 5454938 Anonymous (Settlement_1_Mars One.jpg 1920x602 144kB)
>>5454910 >putting my hope into the mars one project sorry to break your heart and all but thats a scam doesnt mean someone else wont come along with a similar idea however, Im sure the whole reality TV on Mars part would do fucking fantastic with Amerifats

43 min later 5454952 Anonymous
BUMP MOTHAFUCKAS

44 min later 5454954 Anonymous
>>5454934 All countries and it isnt aimed at sending trained astronauts or anybody special. Go to the website and read up on it, its going to be great if it all works out and is legit.

44 min later 5454956 Anonymous (robonaut 2.jpg 634x417 37kB)
hey meatbag, it's me Robonaut 2. I'm going to replace you someday. I can do everything you can do, only better. You meatbags are too expensive for space, instead of meatbags exploring mars, it's gonna be us controlled by meatbags in orbit. >> Ace fucken Zero pilot of the year all years after I graduate. That's cool, but some of my robro's back down on earth are pretty good at flying. Flying isn't that hard for us machines. You'd better get a degree, because smarts are all you have over a robot, meatbag.

47 min later 5454962 Anonymous
>>5454956 >Qualified conscience who can adapt to situations unlike a robot. Has a salary of $60,000 >Robot that takes 15 million dollars to make that might fuck up hard

53 min later 5454971 Anonymous (1358054519034.jpg 406x364 122kB)
>>5454956 >back to /b/ for you. Go make unreasonable assumptions somewhere else.

1 hours later 5454990 Anonymous
buympan

1 hours later 5454999 Anonymous (mars-telepresence.jpg 720x540 227kB)
>>5454962 Did you even read my post meatbag? You don't put the meatbag in the gravity well, you keep them in orbit controlling things like me. Or in the event of space station work, you keep them on the ground on earth. It's called telepresence meatbag(pic related). You meatbags might all get to become armchair astronauts if the space industry picks up. >>Has a salary of $60,000 Meatbags cost a lot of money to keep alive in space. You need lots of gear to keep you alive, more gear means more mass, more mass means greater costs. >>15 million dollars to make your meatbag waste disposal system on the ISS costs $19 million dollars: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19623499/ns/ technology_and_science-space/t/million-f unneled-space-toilet/#.UPuLpXfoQQo I cost about $2.5 million: http://www.universetoday.com/84208/robo- trek-debuts-robonaut-2-unleashed-and-joi ns-first-human-robot-space-crew/

1 hours later 5455001 Anonymous
>>5454999 Shut up shithead. You will never acquire the capabilities of a human mind. EVER.

1 hours later 5455007 Anonymous
>>5455001 check your privilege meatbag scum

1 hours later 5455010 Anonymous
>>5455007 What the fuck does that mean ? How is that an answer to human mind being far superior than the shitty calculator in your tin head

1 hours later 5455012 Anonymous
>>5454888 Canadians can't be astronauts

1 hours later 5455016 Anonymous
>>5455012 >>5455012 y

1 hours later 5455021 Anonymous (1358055010242.jpg 254x267 64kB)
>>5454999 >humans wanting to colonize another planet >using robots DOES NOT COMPUTE. Seriously, you may be trying to make a point, but that will end with little to no success. An hero scumfag.

1 hours later 5455026 Anonymous (1358523545461.jpg 798x500 38kB)
>>5455016

1 hours later 5455028 Anonymous
>>5455026 I know you're trolling but I'll post this anyways http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astronauts/

1 hours later 5455034 Anonymous
>>5455028 >http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/astrona uts/ Listen, I can put a website up about Nigerian astronauts. It doesn't make it true.

2 hours later 5455109 Anonymous (photo.jpg 568x720 319kB)
Bampin.

2 hours later 5455125 Anonymous
I work at JSC and have lived here my whole life. I can tell you all about astronauts.

2 hours later 5455136 Anonymous
>>5455125 how'd you get your job? What do you do? Does JSC do any ISRU research?

3 hours later 5455140 Anonymous
>>5455034 I'd like to see that site actually

11 hours later 5455779 Anonymous
>>5454888 Once you learn the stuff needed to become an astronaut you won't want to go anymore. The space frontier is undeveloped, expensive, and pretty dull. I'd suggest going into engineering, getting a 4.0 at whatever school you choose. Do as many extra curriculars as possible, stay in shape, don't do crimes, basically be perfect. Now go into a graduate school for something that NASA could use or finds valuable. Give them no reason to deny you and every reason to accept you.

12 hours later 5455797 Anonymous
>>5455779 Except the fact that OP IS CANADIAN. NASA IS AN AMERICAN ORGANIZATION THAT ONLY ACCEPTS AMERICANS

12 hours later 5455822 Anonymous
>>5455797 You don't have to be born in the US to become an astronaut with NASA.

12 hours later 5455827 Anonymous
>>5455822 But you do have to have gotten your degree from an american university and have american citizenship. So unless OP wants to give up school for a few years, move to the states, work, acquire citizenship and be a fuckin loser, then graduate 3 years late before realizing he started too late to be an astronaut, he's not getting in tfw i am the op tfw this sads me

12 hours later 5455845 Anonymous
>>5455827 >But you do have to have gotten your degree from an american university [citation needed] The online requirements say nothing of that. And this guy did fly with NASA and has no US degree.

12 hours later 5455846 Anonymous
>>5455845 Forgot the link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Selle rs

12 hours later 5455852 Anonymous
>>5455846 >linking someone who's citizenship took 7 years to activate >there are no accredited institutions in canada yuo need a bachelors from an accredited institution

12 hours later 5455859 Anonymous
SpaceX Get half a million dollars together and they'll send you to mars and back within your lifetime.

12 hours later 5455861 Anonymous
>>5455846 not to mention this motherfucker has a PHD

12 hours later 5455868 Anonymous
Do you even lift?

12 hours later 5455869 Anonymous
>>5455852 It does not say it took him 7 years to get citizenship. >there are no accredited institutions in canada [citation needed]

12 hours later 5455870 Anonymous
>>5455136 Sorry, went to sleep. I just do guidance programming, but I know quite a few astronauts. I was a co-op in college, which is pretty much the only way NASA hires civil servants. If you want to work for NASA, your best bet will be to apply for a co-op. JSC doesn't really do too much research, that's more of Glenn/Langley.

12 hours later 5455873 Anonymous
>>5455861 Wow, that's completely unachievable. That's probably the norm for people who fly as scientists.

12 hours later 5455877 Anonymous
>>5455873 i dont plan to fly as a scientist. I plan to fly as a mothafuckin ACE ZERO PILOT NIGGA ZAPZAP >Sellers began applying annually to become an astronaut in 1984, but his lack of US citizenship was a problem: he became a naturalized citizen in 1991. You think he wasn't trying to become a citizen BEFORE 1984 when the fucking astronaut requirements told him he had to be an american citizen? YOU THINK THAT SHITS JUST EZPZ?

12 hours later 5455878 Anonymous (E2M-golf.jpg 224x371 14kB)
>>5454999 >rovers a human being moves faster then 3cm an hour. Rover: "Oh shit should i turn right and move forward 30cm or turn left, better ask earth." 14 minutes later finally a response. Can't go too fast or it crashes into a rock and gets stuck. Oh shit dust on the solar panel. Human: Encouraging science and tech funding by inspiring people the world over. Gets people into science. A child inspired by an astronaut today is tomorrows biotechnologist (space science was just the gateway drug to science in general). Does more work in an hour then a rover does in a month. The technology to get him there building upon the technology mankind will one day use to colonize the solar system (no more having all our eggs in one basket) Rovers are fine and all, they have their place. But they're a side show to the main attraction and always will be. The main attraction is human fucking beings walking on other worlds like the fucking bosses we should be.

12 hours later 5455879 Anonymous
>>5455868 I do. I'm actually a fitfag for 2 years now, am pretty aesthetic and now am really having a crisis divided because this body i have attained means nothing in the face of my true dreams. Havent been to the gym in a week and am now reconsidering training for sports/general fitness vs just being a bodybuilder.

12 hours later 5455884 Anonymous (1349175155140.jpg 600x957 301kB)
>work hard all your life to become astronaut >get selected, pass through all tests with flying colors >time to go to space >airplane to Baikonur cosmodrome >go to the ISS on a Soyuz spacecraft lel Americans

12 hours later 5455912 Anonymous
>>5455877 >You think he wasn't trying to become a citizen BEFORE 1984 You're now relying on an implication, not fact. We don't know what the regulations were 30 years ago, you can't use an implication as your argument.

12 hours later 5455914 Anonymous
>>5455879 >make money >pay spacex to take you into space half a million. can you make that? google around for details, he said half a million to mars and back

13 hours later 5455928 Anonymous
>>5455878 MSL can travel at 90 meters per hour, it doesn't have to wait for communication from earth every time it moves. The next generation of rover to go in 2018 will be able to navigate themselves for hundreds of meters. On the other hand unmanned vehicles can stay for years, humans only days or at best, months.

13 hours later 5455930 Anonymous
>>5455928 well that's great but nobody gives a fuck. put a man on mars and humanity will shit its collective pants for a decade

13 hours later 5455988 Anonymous
>>5454888 stop making excuses for every fucking thing you do, stop thinking that "passion" is worth anything to anyone.

13 hours later 5456021 Anonymous
>>5454962 thank god for that, we all know how budget-conscious space programs usually are!!!!!

13 hours later 5456022 Anonymous
>>5455021 not the guy you're responding to, but please o back to >>>/b/

14 hours later 5456078 Anonymous
get on your fucking education then. Why are you wasting your time here?

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