[speculawyer]

Chicks dig the funky geeks.

Gone are the days when a NASA control room would be filled with guys with buzz cuts and pocket protectors. In 2012, it's all about the Mohawk or, specifically, the Mohawk of one now very popular NASA employee, flight director Bobak Ferdowski. When Ferdowski and his NASA colleagues watched the $2.5 billion Mars Curiosity rover land safely on the surface of the red planet early Monday morning after an eight month, 352-million-mile journey, cheers and applause broke out in the control room. When TV cameras caught a close-up shot of Ferdowski, 32, and his Mohawk with star shapes buzzed in and all, cheers and applause broke out across the Internet, and the thundering hasn't stopped since. Ferdowski has changed his haircut for each mission he's worked. But a glimpse of a young, Mohawk-wearing guy who knows his aeronautical and astronomical facts enough to land a spacecraft on Mars was enough to make Ferdowski, a University of Washington and MIT graduate, go viral. First came the online meme, the Tumblr and then the thousands of new followers to his @tweetsoutloud Twitter account, where he describes himself as "Flight director on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission. Exercise fiend. Mediocre shortstop." Some of Ferdowski's thousands of new fans on Twitter are asking, not just to follow him, but to marry him. "@tweetsoutloud I know you've been busy, but will you marry me? land something on mars if the answer is yes," wrote @amaeryllis, in a post that is now common on the Twitter feed of the nine-year NASA veteran. " @tweetsoutloud Besides, you're an overnight sensation, and all the ladies love you!! Including this one ;)

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs...opstories.html

[Kaako]

Bobak is one handsome dude, this is not surprising.

[out0v0rder]

32 isn't young. thats like mid-old.

[Curtisaur]

Yeah I wanna "marry" a few people I've only caught quick glimpses of as well.

[Yocke]

32 isn't young. thats like mid-old.

Well fuck you too.

[out0v0rder]

finally, i get to use the word "creepers".

bunch of creepers out there.

[Bread]

His name is Bobak?

[Alligatorjandro]

32 isn't young. thats like mid-old.

32 is old but not old old

[nilbog21]

Yup I would fuck this man for sure. The fact that he is of Iranian descent and working at NASA with a stars and stripes mohawk just makes it for me. Time to fap

[akira28]

Join a rockband, then join Nasa. How did he get into MIT? How did he pay for MIT?

I just want him to help make mohawks more acceptable. Either that or I'll have to become a pirate or freebooter mercenary or something to be able to wear one. Or NASA I guess.

[Rentahamster]

His name is Bobak?

His name is Bobak.

[Dennis]

Do we get to call the women asking him for marriage, creeps?

[Kaako]

His name is Bobak?

Yup. It's usually spelled Babak though; Persian name. I'm 99.9% sure he is of Persian descendant.

[Glasswork]

FERDOWSI, not Ferdowski.

He is very handsome indeed :>

[Jason Raize '75 - '04]

He started at NASA when he was 23?

[akira28]

Do we get to call the women asking him for marriage, creeps?

You can call them whatever, whenever, but why would you want to? I mean...you know.

[More Fun To Compute]

32 isn't young. thats like mid-old.

If you are soldier a few hundred years ago maybe.

[SnakeswithLasers]

32 isn't young. thats like mid-old.

You're out of order. I hope Bish holds you in contempt of court.

[tuna on toast]

douchy geek

[Dibbz]

Guy looks like Cesc Fabregas. No wonder people want to marry him.

[DMPrince]

Sideview mohawk guy.

[Dennis]

douchy geek

How is he douchy?

Because of the mohawk?

[Escape Goat]

he is pretty dreamy. I thought NASA was all D&D dungeon masters and pocket protectors.

[XenodudeX]

He looks like a tool.

*Drinks haterade*

[Dennis]

he is pretty dreamy. I thought NASA was all D&D dungeon masters and pocket protectors.

Want do you have against dungeon masters?

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Yup I would fuck this man for sure. The fact that he is of Iranian descent and working at NASA with a stars and stripes mohawk just makes it for me. Time to fap

Hot damn, this is the patriotic American thing ever.

[Fourman]

douchy geek

Someone is jealous.

[gryz]

He started at NASA when he was 23?

I started working at [very well known technology company] at age 22, 22/23 is typically the age that engineering students get hired on somewhere.

[alphaNoid]

32 isn't young. thats like mid-old.

32 is plenty young

[ConfusingJazz]

Join a rockband, then join Nasa. How did he get into MIT? How did he pay for MIT?

Seduction.

[MIMIC]

Never heard of this guy. I thought he was one of the Jonas Brothers.

[Seguin]

32 is plenty young

No need to be in denial about being mid-old, man

[Slo]

32 isn't young. thats like mid-old.

[Manos: The Hans of Fate]

Join a rockband, then join Nasa. How did he get into MIT? How did he pay for MIT? I just want him to help make mohawks more acceptable. Either that or I'll have to become a pirate or freebooter mercenary or something to be able to wear one. Or NASA I guess.

10 years of Gov service or public interest work and paying your loans and the rest is forgiven.

[akira28]

Space man. Motherfucking SPACE man. We have to get into space.

We need to build in space. Get to asteroids. Maybe fabricate materials on the asteroids themselves. So many options....why doesn't anyone do anything?

[ClassyPenguin]

I started working at [very well known technology company] at age 22, 22/23 is typically the age that engineering students get hired on somewhere.

I have a friend doing some student research at NASA, he's 22.

Space man. Motherfucking SPACE man. We have to get into space. We need to build in space. Get to asteroids. Maybe fabricate materials on the asteroids themselves. So many options....why doesn't anyone doA anything?

budget cuts, budget cuts and more budget cuts.

[speculawyer]

Yup I would fuck this man for sure. The fact that he is of Iranian descent and working at NASA with a stars and stripes mohawk just makes it for me. Time to fap

I did not see the red & blue in his hair until now. I assumed that with the stars he was going for a space theme but it is a patriotic theme.

[out0v0rder]

32 is plenty young

if you were around before pokemon was invented, you are not plenty young.

ok i think i got it, 32 is post-young/pre-old.

[Masoria]

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[Escape Goat]

[FairyD]

that guy has a good hairline.

[tuna on toast]

How is he douchy? Because of the mohawk?

He's trying way too hard to look cool. Too obvious.

http://i.imgur.com/6ZSgD.jpg

Someone is jealous.

[Rentahamster]

Someone interview this guy, and the other team members. They need more media exposure.

[akira28]

budget cuts, budget cuts and more budget cuts.

Forget NASA funding. They'd never do anything like that. They're too careful, left to their own devices. There needs to be someone with vision. Someone with charisma who can get public support. Someone who can steal NASA's ball and make them chase them for it. We need a privately directed, NASA supported project. Like a 70/30 type thing, where they do the heavy lifting, but an outside company is taking all of the risks, like with building a space station at a Lagrange point and taking prospecting expeditions to local asteroids, etc.

I mean even at their best, NASA would be all about carefully exploring, eventually sending a human to mars like by 2050 or something, maybe. We could be just a bit more risky and desperate for results versus plain science, and eventually be up in the motherfucker, cashing in all of that space cheddar. --

The Russians, for example, were scary in space. Fucking reckless. But they were driven, afraid of failure and death. If we were even just a little bit more desperate, we'd be making incredible leaps in inner solar system exploration. But instead they're literally playing shuffleboard with public opinion and expectations and relevancy, versus meager funding that ends up a political casualty whenever we don't need a public relations victory. And now they're saying, 'we've landed a roboscooter on Mars, so it's time to milk this thing for all it's worth, so they'll remember our names when it's time to go dance for dollars from Uncle Sam'. NASA used to be a lot more daring, a lot better funded, and a lot more relevant to the public consciousness. And they came up with idea after idea. If we need to think outside the box to bring that back, so be it. But we can't wait for NASA to rekindle that flame.

[EYEL1NER]

He's trying way too hard to look cool. Too obvious. http://i.imgur.com/6ZSgD.jpg

Hey, it's okay to admit it.
He's a smart and handsome guy that has ladies fawning over him and a sweet job. I'm jealous too.

[Clydefrog]

32 isn't young. thats like mid-old.

[Technosteve]

32 is old? i hope this recession never ends and you youngings never find jobs. Live with your moms forever kids.

[Bomber Bob]

His name is Babar.

wow

[travisbickle]

Working for NASA at 23!

I guess these are the jobs you get if you manage to not be poached by Wall Street?

[Trouble]

"@tweetsoutloud I know you've been busy, but will you marry me? land something on mars if the answer is yes,"

lol