From the NYT: Alexis Sablone, MIT Grad and Future Olympic Skateboarder

[Fro Doggy Dog]

the berrics would have us believe that we are in a golden age for skateboarding in mainstream media:

The unique mix of diversity and human interest stories in skateboarding during this period in time is like catnip to journalists; we can expect to see much more skateboarding in the Style and Sports sections of the Times in the coming year.

https://theberrics.com/alexis-sablone-featured-in-new-york-times-style-section

if this is truly a golden age, i’m gonna need some better writing than this from the nyt:

But riding a halfpipe is only half her story.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/style/alexis-sablone-mit-grad-and-future-olympic-skateboarder.html

check out alexis’ MIT thesis, Nuclear oasis : the story of 10,000-year-old trash, here:

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/103486

[Ocelot]

Is her thesis meant to be a joke or something?

[honey island]

Is her thesis meant to be a joke or something?

most thesis' are.

[DanTheDoucher]

Is her thesis meant to be a joke or something?

Joke or not, she's smarter than me.

[Pat Eisenhauer]

Is her thesis meant to be a joke or something?

Why would you say that? This is actually a fairly common question/theme. To dumb it down, if you have stored nuclear waste that will be dangerous 10,000 years in the future, how do you design something that would both contain it for that long AND communicate to our descendants "don't open this!"

[Alan]

Is her thesis meant to be a joke or something?

Are you an architect?

[BMCsteve]

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Is her thesis meant to be a joke or something?

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Are you an architect?

You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.

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Are you an architect?

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You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.

You should become a city planner.  Why limit yourself to just one building?

[DanTheDoucher]

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Are you an architect?

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You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.

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You should become a city planner.  Why limit yourself to just one building?

My GPA is a solid 2.0.

Not showing off, not falling behind.

[D10S]

I heard she went to school with Art Vandalay

[doublesteveburger]

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Are you an architect?

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You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.

And you want to be my latex salesman?

[Cool Ceith]

the berrics would have us believe that we are in a golden age for skateboarding in mainstream media:

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The unique mix of diversity and human interest stories in skateboarding during this period in time is like catnip to journalists; we can expect to see much more skateboarding in the Style and Sports sections of the Times in the coming year.

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https://theberrics.com/alexis-sablone-featured-in-new-york-times-style-section

if this is truly a golden age, i’m gonna need some better writing than this from the nyt:

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But riding a halfpipe is only half her story.

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I mean, mainstream coverage will always be out-of-touch but The Berrics has a point. There seems to be a skateboarding human interest story in every daily paper this year. (I have a Google alert for this shit and it's always "So and so wants to skateboard in the Olympics" etc.)

[FS-OverKOOK]

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Are you an architect?

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You know I always wanted to pretend that I was an architect.

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And you want to be my latex salesman?

I heard Marine Biologists do pretty well.

[artskool]

Alexis is a god.

[Cool Ceith]

Alexis is a god.

God-dess. Know your herstory.

[Ocelot]

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Why would you say that? This is actually a fairly common question/theme. To dumb it down, if you have stored nuclear waste that will be dangerous 10,000 years in the future, how do you design something that would both contain it for that long AND communicate to our descendants "don't open this!"

to dumb it down, you basically turn nuclear waste into glass

and in 10,000 years we will be sending that glass into orbit, if we are still around

she's talking about designing some monolith that humans will innately understand as a warning (amazing)

i'm just surprised her thesis is a real thing

[Painted Baby]

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Is her thesis meant to be a joke or something?

[close]

Why would you say that? This is actually a fairly common question/theme. To dumb it down, if you have stored nuclear waste that will be dangerous 10,000 years in the future, how do you design something that would both contain it for that long AND communicate to our descendants "don't open this!"

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to dumb it down, you basically turn nuclear waste into glass

and in 10,000 years we will be sending that glass into orbit, if we are still around

she's talking about designing some monolith that humans will innately understand as a warning (amazing)

i'm just surprised her thesis is a real thing

Yeah because launching nuclear waste into orbit couldn't have any potential catastrophic ELE type side effects.

How's your new gig as a professional Slap heel working out for ya?

[andocom]

Maybe the US should start recycling it like other countries instead.

I honestly don't know what would be wrong with a very deep hole, below the water table, from a laymen's perspective you would think it wouldn't be that difficult, seems to work for million year old fossils. No doubt smarter and more informed people than me have studied it I guess.

[georgethecat]

Maybe the US should start recycling it like other countries instead.

I honestly don't know what would be wrong with a very deep hole, below the water table, from a laymen's perspective you would think it wouldn't be that difficult, seems to work for million year old fossils. No doubt smarter and more informed people than me have studied it I guess.

I think the answer we've come up with is basically a very deep hole.

[Fred Savage]

But what are the pyramids for?

[Patey]

i back alexis but i did not know you could submit a master's thesis in the form of comic illustration

[Ghost Face]

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Maybe the US should start recycling it like other countries instead.

I honestly don't know what would be wrong with a very deep hole, below the water table, from a laymen's perspective you would think it wouldn't be that difficult, seems to work for million year old fossils. No doubt smarter and more informed people than me have studied it I guess.

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I think the answer we've come up with is basically a very deep hole.

Get Tk to put it in the sky

[John Florence]

Pretty much her thesis in a documentary:

[Bitter]

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Maybe the US should start recycling it like other countries instead.

I honestly don't know what would be wrong with a very deep hole, below the water table, from a laymen's perspective you would think it wouldn't be that difficult, seems to work for million year old fossils. No doubt smarter and more informed people than me have studied it I guess.

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I think the answer we've come up with is basically a very deep hole.

I work for an environmental company. We currently have a big government contract cleaning up radioactive waste. When you take away the fancy engineering terms, we're just burying it in a big hole.