One of the security guards in my building is quite friendly and chats with everyone. I sometimes chat with him and recently found out that he's a university student switching from Molecular Biology to Aerospace Engineering. He told me that his cousin has a PhD in Math and is working on next-generation vision technology that can see inside of buildings and underground bunkers from a satellite in space! It seems difficult to believe, but I think defense technology is decades ahead of anything civilians know about.
My security guard friend told me that he was at the Canadian Space Agency in Quebec last year and got to see the mission control center with live video feeds. His cousin gave him a pin (that you pin to your shirt) that
commemorates Canada's first long duration Expedition on-board the International Space Station (ISS). He said only ten of these were made, and it is personalized with the astronaut's name. This one is for
Rober Thirsk.
He's trying to convince me to take Aerospace Engineering instead of Computer Science when I go back to school in a few years. He said it is such a large field and surely I will find an area that can take advantage of my programming skills. That is an interesting thought and I will keep it in mind.
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