NASA Requests Help With Von Braun's Notes 148
DynaSoar writes "NASA is soliciting ideas from the public on how best to catalog and digitize the collected notes of Wernher von Braun. 'We're looking for creative ways to get it out to the public,' said project manager Jason Crusan. 'We don't always do the best with putting out large sets of data like this.' The PDF notes are those of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, the first director of NASA's Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama and are typed with copious handwritten notes in the margin. According to the official request for information, NASA needs ideas on what format to use (PDF), how to index the notes, and how to create a useful database. The unique nature and historical value of the data, literally discovered in boxes six months ago, is what motivated NASA to ask the public for ideas."
Format Suggestion (Score:3, Funny)
Re:NASA (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory Tom Lehrer.. (Score:5, Funny)
Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun
A man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
Call him a Nazi, he won't even frown
"Ha, Nazi schmazi," says Wernher von Braun
Don't say that he's hypocritical
Say rather that he's apolitical
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down
That's not my department," says Wernher von Braun
Some have harsh words for this man of renown
But some think our attitude should be one of gratitude
Like the widows and cripples in old London town
Who owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun
You too may be a big hero
Once you've learned to count backwards to zero
"In German oder English I know how to count down
Und I'm learning Chinese," says Wernher von Braun
A suggestion (Score:5, Funny)
On the next thing that goes up to space (or even just a suborbital flight), crank down the window at about 20km up and throw the stuff out (or have some automated thingy with an explosive bolt that distributes it into the atmosphere). Now THAT would be a "creative way to get it out to the public".
Then again, maybe that would be TOO creative.
Re:Didn't know he was the kinky type.. (Score:2, Funny)
Is that like Fist Post?
Re:NASA (Score:4, Funny)
Wow...I didn't know they had that position?!?!
I'm not sure I'd WANT to be fist director....sounds like more of a strange pr0n thing than a NASA office.
Re:Format Suggestion (Score:3, Funny)
Might as well get MediaSentry and the RIAA in on the act ...
Re:Obligatory Tom Lehrer.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Obligatory Tom Lehrer.. (Score:5, Funny)
Looks recorded.
Re:NASA (Score:3, Funny)
NASA: We already have top men on that.
Slashdot: But wh--
NASA: Top. Men.
(My favorite line. Uttered by the actor who played Porkins, IIRC.)