NASA's Mohawk Guy Loves Mars and Memes in (Almost) Equal Measure [Curiosity]
Over at Wired's Underwire blog, Angela Watercutter spoke with Bobak Ferdowsi, NASA's supercool mohawked mission to Mars activity lead, about his newly acquired celeb status. Of whether such sudden internet fame was something he'd expected: No! Funny story, actually at work we sometimes – to make things more lively – we make our own memes about some of the things that are going on with our projects. Like, if we find a good photo of the rover where it looks particularly human or whatever else or sad, we'll make it like "Rover Problems," or we'll put some sort of caption on it. They're probably not as funny to the outside world as they are to us. So it's hilarious to be a meme myself. Of how his colleagues are dealing with it: The other day we were sitting in the operations room and we were down-linking images from the orbiters, and we're getting that data down and somebody was like, "We're getting a new picture, let me process it and p...