The "selling" of Bell Labs was one of the worst things that we could have done in this country in terms of research. After ma-Bell was broken up, I believe it went with Lucent, and from everything I remember reading... Carly Fiorina sold it off to China, along with many of the patents and rights. It was dissolved, and the old Eero Saarinin (sp?) building where the research used to be done is still standing, but now just an office building.
Not Bell Labs for Phones... Bell Helicopter likely related to V-22 and earlier/related versions was involved developing decades ago. Think you're looking down/up at a wing tip prop to see more no matter how is actually installed in the tunnel.
------------------ Dr. Ian Malcolm: Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should. (Jurassic Park)
Not Bell Labs for Phones... Bell Helicopter likely related to V-22 and earlier/related versions was involved developing decades ago. Think you're looking down/up at a wing tip prop to see more no matter how is actually installed in the tunnel.
Not Bell Labs for Phones... Bell Helicopter likely related to V-22 and earlier/related versions was involved developing decades ago. Think you're looking down/up at a wing tip prop to see more no matter how is actually installed in the tunnel.
Bell Textron. Textron bought Bell aerospace in 1960. Up until then, Textron was a clothing and cloth millwork company.
I suspect the wind tunnel tests were early part of the XV-15 project, as they tested both rotating engine nacelles and folding rotors. Bell Textron makes the Uh1, the AH1 Cobra and the MV22.
Imagine the confusion when some dude who just hired by Bell Aerospace showed up here for his first day of work.
True story, I was hired at a company, and the day I went to start, they had moved their entire offices a week prior. When the consulting agency finally gave me the right address, I showed up and the boss asked me why I was late. Spent about 10 minutes telling me about the company his dad had given him, and spent the rest of the time talking about his new Porsche 911. I lasted 3 days... I don't think they were happy with the amount of money they had offered me. The boss called me into his office with somewhat of an attitude (it was my 3rd day, and I still hadn't been given any work) and asked if he could lower my salary. I told him not a chance. On my way home, the consulting agency called me and told me not to go back... hahaha. It was a horrible company. I ended getting hired by Quest Diagnostics a week later.
Quest has grown into a very large global company. They do most of my blood work and other testing as part of United Healthcare's contractors.
Anyone here that gets any blood work, has any kind of cytology or pathology (to include nuclear medicine, 2/4/6/8 up to 24 part prostate biopsy), fine needle aspirates, thin prep-paps, HPV-DNA tests, upper and lower GI biopsies, etc... there's a 70-75% chance the report is mine. When Quest acquired AmeriPath, I had been designing most of the reports that were getting sent to the PCPs. Believe it or not, many of them were designed using Word templates that were populated using VB script, some were made with Delphi, and some of them were basic text reports that were produced in MUMPS. I forget the name of the system... man, it's been a long time... IDX was the billing system, but we had a very high-end MUMPS system for the accessioning and grossing process, all the way up to reporting. I can't remember. Anyway... medical industry moves slow... so those are my reports. I'd say my job was probably the easiest, but I had the opportunity to be more creative. Everyone else was strictly a MUMPS programmer, while I programmed in Delphi, C++, etc. I was more or less the least paid, but I didn't mind because I got all the newer opportunity. When layoff time came, they literally laid off 50 programmers, and kept me, my boss, and one other guy. They'd hired all new and younger people (like me) who could program in Java, and they tried to re-write everything in JAVA (using my same front-end reporting though). I'm not a fan of Java, at all... and it didn't work out. I don't know what ended up happening, lost track of most of them. They started this new office in Dallas, and they tried to get me to move there. They had me travel to Dallas for 2 weeks at a time for 6 months in hopes that it would encourage me to want to move. Dallas is a great city, but I was living in Fort Lauderdale... no chance I was going to leave pristine beaches with Ferraris everywhere. Funny... I live in San Antonio now.
Anyway, it was bitter-sweet the day I went with my wife to the doctor and she got her Melanoma results from the doctor. It was very clearly one of my reports, but also... my wife had Melanoma (which she recovered from).
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I love seeing those wind tunnel test videos. Like almost all YouTube rabbit hole video binges they lead to cool stuff like jet engine test stand failures and rocketsled tests
I love seeing those wind tunnel test videos. Like almost all YouTube rabbit hole video binges they lead to cool stuff like jet engine test stand failures and rocketsled tests
I've spent WAAY too much time following those kinds of branching off videos myself. Spent 1/2 an afternoon watching Russian and other East European automobile and truck drivers wreck at high speeds. (By the end of those, I was too nervous to watch American drivers doing the same thing)
Spent 1/2 an afternoon watching Russian and other East European automobile and truck drivers wreck at high speeds.
The worst "driving" videos by far are the ones from the Middle East with young stupid guys drifting at high speed with even stupider spectators lining the street to watch. OMG... bodies (whole and in parts) are flying all over the place!
P.S. Before certain morons start freaking out, this happened in the past.
Apparently, since I noticed and questioned a previous posting, I am now a “moron”. Well at least I know where I stand with you...I do appreciate honesty.
