Replying to Sienna Wolven #siennawolven Damn, fancy. I just had to annotate PDFs
What did you do school for
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
Electrical engineering, we only got a graduate student union very recently and by the time I left they had yet to get their shit together
To many fucking engineers
god damn it
Lol
every time
I am doing a PhD in mathematics in information theory
Well at least information theory is quite useful. We use it to some degree in RF communications
Well, I should say its the basis of RF comms
My education trajectory has been mathematical physics -> control theory -> information theory, based purely on where I got accepted for grad school and by who lol
But in day to day engineering we still use it too
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak My education trajectory has been mathematical physics -> control theory -> information theory, based purely on where I got accepted for grad school and by who lol
Lol fair. Im potentially about to start an interdisciplinary PhD in electrical engineering and geophysics or astrophysics.
based
More PhD race contendors joining is always funny (ignoring leg got his PhD and kribbles joined already having one)
Im mostly doing it with the hope of teaching at a university. My friend is a graduate working on space missions and id basically be rubber stamping his work and helping apply for funding so that i can fuck off during summer and teach in winter
Thats cool
Staying in academia is my tenitive plan atm, I will consider what I actually want to do when I am nearing the end of my PhD (started my 2nd year)
Okay, we should make sure the actual important vetting question is answered then. Please tell me you are not from Ohio
Also true Spooky is literally a satellite radio engineer
My plan of getting enough random PhDs to form PHIJKCHU university is going smoothly though
We basically have enough for a small engineering department as is
lamp is our sole psychology professor in this weird timeline
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak Okay, we should make sure the actual important vetting question is answered then. Please tell me you are not from Ohio
Nope, Alaska
I do work in SATCOM type stuff currently, which surprisingly both bits of information dont dox me that hard
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak Also true Spooky is literally a satellite radio engineer (edited)
I do wonder how many degrees of separation are between us. Hope he doesn't work for Viasat. We would not be on speaking terms Pubb
Naval ship yard in Washington?
Replying to Sienna Wolven #siennawolven Electrical engineering, we only got a graduate student union very recently and by the time I left they had yet to get their shit together
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nvm I read ahead
we're in the same field lmao
It would be pretty embarrassing to work for viasat in this day and age
them and intelsat are barely hanging on for relevance
also, ever since viasat aquaired inmarsat
their quality has dropped like crazy
Especially true for the satellite internet side of things, though they're actually expanding into the smallsat space reasonably well
But yeah, I do maintenance on their systems sometimes and I hate many of their design choices
Maxar is my favorite company in the space, though I don't work for them
L3 Harris is my beloved ground station manufacturer
...
yeah we definitely know the same people lol
Lol
from a pure architectural point of view, Maxar's bus designs are the best I've gotten to work with
but they don't go much into the microsat realm
I was up at Amazon Kuiper a few months ago, working with them on their gen 2 Kuiper constellation , since they're launching block 1 rn
Huh, you know a guy by the name of Bob?
@bob
Very distinct name i know
hey Bob
if it's a famous bob at your site, no
No its a Bob that I believe worked with Amazon on some form of satellite systems. He didn't explain much what he did
yeah he'd be up at the kuiper site in Redmon Washington probably then
they're split between Redmond, Seattle, and Kirkland
wait
nvmI mightuh.....
Small world then. Used to play eve online with him
so uh, I'll DM you this, I pulled out my little stacks of buisness cards from them
and one of them is in fact a Bob
Spooky made a work friend (not really he would NOT take a bullet for him) via the discord. Wholesome chungus moment
Satcom EEs will inherit the Earth
and all the other planets while we're at it
What's the point of living if you can't conquer space?
Rusp, I will disable your Starlink if you keep this up
the satellites will shun you
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 Satcom EEs will inherit the Earth
This is the satellite version of spooky's polution machine idea