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Hey!  A fan pointed me over to where you had deleted the line about my working for NASA from the short article on me (Randall Munroe), labeling it ""patently made-up information"".  Understandable and taken in good humor, of course, and nothing on the page is sourced (it's more of a stub than anything).  But I'm curious why you were so sure it was fabricated.  )  xkcd
I find it hard to believe that a 22-year-old could have been working full-time for NASA. Of course, you may well be freakishly gifted and the kind of person that NASA would have been all over, but it just seems ever so slightly hard to believe.  - Schreit mich an 
I interned there during college and started working for them a bit before I graduated.  I stayed for the better part of a year until late 2006.  NASA is a huge organization with a tremendous number of contract positions on all sorts of projects.  It's not all rocket scientists leaning over mission control screens and talking to astronauts on their headsets.

Anyway, the information is taken from my published bio page, but you're right  you have no way of knowing whether I'm lying or not.  I guess it's probably safest to assume that I am.
In that case, I'll admit my mistake and congratulate you on interning and working in a pretty impressive place (I know very little about science, but anyone who got to work for NASA has got to be a smart cookie in that kind of area). Feel free to re-add the info, although the impression I got from the original version was more than you weren't just a contract worker. If that's not even a valid distinction in the States - it's increasingly less of one here in Oz - then my apologies there in advance.  - Schreit mich an 
 Honestly, they never really explained to me which one I was.  I went to work every day in a building at NASA where I worked on NASA robots, and NASA paid me (through a government contractor).  When I said ""I work for NASA"" no one argued.

 It was a lot more Dilbert-esque than you would expect.  Old, echoing tile hallways with quiet, gruff middle-aged men working at blueprint-covered desks, mild office politics, lots of presentations and buzzwords, and hours spent wading through computer code trying to figure out why the motor on the lab bench was spinning the wrong way.  I thought it sounded like the perfect place to work, and it was good in a lot of ways, but I was happy to leave.  xkcd

 Can you nominate my entry 

Hey BigHaz, can you please show me how the nomination process goes for DYK, I mean is it nominated the same way like featured articles are nominated. Actually, this thing is new to me. Thanks  
Sure thing. The way it works is that your nomination which you made is called the ""hook"". That gets put onto the Suggestions page, which I'll move it to in a moment. Over the next few days, people will make various comments about it - if the ""hook"" is too long, if it needs sources, whatever else. If you're able to respond to those comments (if there are any made), then your article might get selected.  - Schreit mich an 
 By suggestion pages you mean to say talk pages or what  
  
It's not easy to do that, since the suggestions are cleared from the page after they get onto the front page, so I really can't just point you to a page and say ""here you are"". What particularly do you want to see? If you're after examples of the kinds of comments people make, just keep an eye on the Suggestions page.  - Schreit mich an 

Caucasian ethnicities
semites are caucasian.  
Or indeed not. See, for example, Semitic, which clearly indicates otherwise. They speak wildly different languages to those spoken by Indo-European people (who are the ones we normally call ""Caucasian""), so unless there's some startling new research out there, I don't think that comment is accurate.  - Schreit mich an 
I'm not even going to dignify this with a response. [[Use