h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

if I think what happend since the last entry ...

Yeah... it's like saying "just another two weeks" and then it is five years

How's life?

Y.

busy but fine, hope yours too.
But only three weeks more and then ... holidays

AXR

Bah, holidays. Who needs them? Having said that, I only got back to Berlin last week after spending some time with my parents, which was all the vacation I will get this year.

hoilidays are always a good way to get out of here and see the world ... at least a little bit

See the world? No no, that is what TV and the internet are for

I hear you are biding your time somewhere in the "Pfalz" these days? What brought you there, and why?

Y.

NOOOO ... its northern "Baden Würtemberg" and it's for the job at DLR.

Also Bayern, huh?

DLR as in Deutschlandradio? Or is it rather air and space travel?

Sweet!

yes, not so far from Bayern, but far enough

and I would not use the word 'travel'.

What and where are you doing ... erm ... something

http://www.dlr.de/dlr/Organisation/Standorte/lampoldshausen

So then, if it's not *travel*, let's at least clarify the air vs. space thing? Are you designing better space shuttles? Or did you build the A380 or whatever it is?

Me, I decided to live up to expectations and do a real student thing; you know, the 20 semester deal Well, it's not quite 20, and I am now facing my exams, but I am nevertheless far too deep in the two digit area, seeing that 9 semesters was recommended...

we have test facilities for rocket and satellite engines here ...

sometimes I would like to be a student again, not for the work, but for the rythme of life.

Yes, the student rhythm of life can be appealing at times... Like for that past half year when I spent my weekdays in Staatsbibliothek from 9am to 9pm, my Saturdays in the same place from 9 to 7 and my Sundays wondering what I have been doing all week

But rockets and satelites... how cool is that! I wonder, do they have a big red button somewhere in your facility that says "don't push"?

Y.

a lot of red buttons, but only active during the tests and only some people are allowed to push tehm ... if necessary

you shoul check this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F36649?thread=755755