xkcd 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