• cymbal_king@lemmy.world
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    Just check out the resumes of pretty much any astronaut. They’re all incredibly accomplished people, the selection process is so competitive

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    I thought about becoming a navy seal as a springboard to Harvard Medical where I’d meet a NASA physician who’d convince me to become an astronaut. But then I thought I’d just go bowling instead.

    That’s the difference between being born in the 70’s instead of the 80’s like Johnny Kim, I guess.

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      I know you’re making a joke, but it’s not funny specifically because of what a piece of shit his dad actually was.

      In Jonny Kim’s senior year in high school, his dad died in a shootout with the police after the pistol whipping his mom and repeatedly threatening to kill her (in front of their high school age son). This dude joined the Navy a few months later, in large part to get away from an traumatic home life.

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    The Navy gives its pilots call signs, essentially chosen by that pilot’s peers in flight school.

    Having already been a SEAL and a doctor, and only being sent to Navy flight school as part of his astronaut training, his peers gave him the call sign “Sidequest.”

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    Get that doctor shit in place, and the other two are going to fall into place more easily.

    … betting it costs some money to become a doctor!