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
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Thursday, October 16, 2025
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
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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
Replying to Rusp #rusp. I know you two bump shoulders from time to time
Best he can do is get you a bunch of in game currency for pokemon go
you know, they nailed the mission patch, the real one looks just like that
sorry Rusp
if you're ever in DC/VA, I'll offer a cool tour of our satcom lab Sienna
I do find myself there on occasion. Ill DM you if I get the chance!
See @Kribbles this is how its done
no whining about the government shutdown taking all your travel budget to come to DC
Funny thing is, I know several alumi from my uni working in that area. So like, it would be hilarious if there's only one degree of separation
(there is)
it's a really small community
the fact I keep running into the same small subset of people
who seem to run everything
Its similar in heliophysics too. I went to a conference at John Hopkins a while ago and basically everyone was on a first name basis from the start
can you guys dim the sun already
please and thank you
That one I paid out of pocket to go to out of personal interest
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 can you guys dim the sun already please and thank you (edited)
Ill ask the folks down in HAARP
@ bopit iirc
Saturday, October 25, 2025
I can actually answer this one weirdly
that's a brand for school/industrial supplies
lot of kitchen prep stuff for school cafeterias and the like