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Also the guy warning her is not only not the one who got her canned for the tweets but he actually went to bat for her.
How did she manage to land a job as an MLB team manager after a NASA internship?
Math.
sixteen minutes of fame
To be fair, she’s more famous now than the vast majority of NASA employees
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Right? I genuinely do not understand the desire to be famous. Like, it just does not compute for me and my personality.
Notoriety for notoriety’s sake seems a bit shallow but I can certainly get the idea of making a mark in something that you hold dear. Recognition.
Pretty fucked up they harassed Hickam to the point that he removed his own blog page defending them.
Thank you for those links. I hadn’t heard of this before and it was a hell of a ride.
For everyone else, the TL;DL of the podcast (which you should listen to!) is that Naomi is good now, she works in the aerospace industry (“commercial jet engine stuff”), and she still cusses a fuckton. She did not get back her NASA internship after that incident. I don’t think she mentioned in the interview exactly how she got back in the industry, all she said is: “I took such a roundabout way to get back into it”, and then the conversation was sidetracked by BOEING KILLED A GUY!
Thanks for the pod-recommend. Never heard of this one.
💌 A paragon of proper Internet behaviour right here.
Before this happened, I actually knew who Homer Hickam was because I had read October Sky, made the whole tweet chain just that slight bit funnier.
I had read October Sky
The book was called “The Rocket Boys”. The movie made from the book was “October Sky”. (I honestly like the movie name better, though).
While you’re correct, since 1998 the book has been published as October Sky for that very reason. Fun fact, October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys
No way
I was just googling him to see if he was the October sky guy.
LOL, genius move, Naomi. Do we know how it ended?
In-depth update from last year: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sixteenth-minute-of-fame-172216473/episode/suck-my-dick-and-balls-i-198420059/
lord knows I tried reading that, but I lack the brain damage required to read any more.
I fuckin hate podcasts. they say a whole lot of bullshit with near zero content.
it’s 45 minutes of pretentious dumbasses reacting to the smell of their own farts while locked in a tiny recording studio.
Well geez, ok. It’s a podcast I enjoy listening to.
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Its good ending.
Fun take on a classic exchange.
I’ll take “Reasons to have a professional social media and a private one” for $500, Alex.
What happens to them actually
They kissed 👉👈
…and the rest, as they say, is history.
