http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a16722/hobbyist-rocket-space-race/
->Will On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Andrew Greenberg <a...@ece.pdx.edu> wrote: > Hi everyone! > > Well huh. About 4 months ago Chevrolet contacted us saying they'd like > to feature us in an add campaign called "Unexpected standouts" or > something like that. We said "great!". So I wrote a bunch of stuff about > us, mostly answering their questions, sent in a bunch of pictures of the > team, and then asked to double check the copy of what they were actually > going to send out. And then we never heard anything back. > > Well, just today we found out the there's a giant Art Deco (?) version > of *me* in the current Popular Mechanics with a few heavily edited > quotes. Huh. > > The good news: it's great publicity. And some of the quotes aren't bad. > And it points to our website! > > The bad news: they totally screwed up a couple of the facts. Most > egregiously, they say "... first to push amateur rockets past Mach 1" > which of course is stupidly wrong. The only claim we've ever made is > that we might have been the first group to "push WiFi past Mach 1". > That's a cringe-worthy error. This is why, for the record, you always > ask to see the final copy on this kind of thing. > > I wanted to let you all know because it's good publicity, but please be > ready for some backlash about their stupid mistake. > > See you tonight, > > Andrew > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew Greenberg > > Electrical and Computer Engineering > Portland State University > http://www.ece.pdx.edu/ > a...@ece.pdx.edu C: 503.708.7711 > ------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > psas-team mailing list > psas-team@lists.psas.pdx.edu > http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-team > > This list's membership is automatically generated from the memberships of > the psas-airframe, psas-avionics, and psas-general mail lists. Visit > http://lists.psas.pdx.edu to individually subscribe/unsubscribe yourself > from these lists. >
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