Recent content by lilleybc

I choose Mars because as we saw with the moon, it costs a lot of money to do round trip explorations when the technology isn't really there. I would expect the first manned missions to be one way. It's possible that a base on the moon would provide an excellent platform for building and...

The next frontier: MARS! Ok, so the moon would probably be good too, but I want to talk about what kind of people NASA would want to send to Mars. In Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, the optimal explorers are four married couples with varied expertise including: an astrogator...

That's good point about establishing connections. I'll take it into consideration.

Hi, I was recently accepted into two summer programs. One, an REU at U Chicago and two, an internship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs. A friend of mine says that the National Lab internship is more prestigious, that is, that the mentors are slightly more amazing at the National Lab. Is...

So I will probably transfer to an engineering school for next fall, but in the mean time I want to take the best classes I can to prepare. I am taking Linear Algebra and already had Diff. Eqns. Out of: Analog Circuits (a computer engineering course) Quantum Mechanics (a physics course)...

Greetings, I am a junior student at a liberal arts college (Pacific Lutheran University) and I am interested in majoring in engineering, but the school does not offer an engineering degree. I have several options as an undergraduate and I wanted to get some advice. Option I I could...