It's not rocket science,
It's only retail
a phrase I've heard bantered
across the counter at work.
It's not rocket science, it's retail
a throw-away line, maybe,
like saying we would rather be smart
than intelligent any day.
But I have known rocket scientists
I have read the abstracts
their grants, their research
so over my head, so opaque.
I have seen their passion
their love of physics, of astronomy,
infinite space, minute particles
I have seen it on their face
But oh the proxy, the fill-in,
the professor standing before us
trying to explain a principle, a theory,
to our general education classroom.
He might have just as well have been speaking
Greek.
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February
24, 2022
It’s
not rocket science
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/its-not-rocket-science.html
1980 or 1981, Introduction to Astronomy class
at University of New Hampshire
whene Lennard Fisk had Joseph Hollweg fill in when he had to
go to a meeting in Washington for NASA.
January
3, 2022
what
didn’t I learn
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/01/what-didnt-i-learn.html
December 29,
2021
Pushing
freight in a pandemic
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/pushing-freight-in-pandemic.html
edited
October 25, 2021
Another
SKU - haiku
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/another-sku-haiku.html
converted
to haiku based on challenge in comments
October
25, 2021
Another
SKU
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/another-sku.html
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