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Mac Power Users

228: Rocket Science with Skip Owens

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2014

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

David and Katie chat with NASA Scientist Skip Owens about how he uses his Mac to put rovers on Mars. Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for assistance with the shownotes this week!

Transcript

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0:00.0

MacPower users episode 228.

0:02.9

Workflows with rocket scientists.

0:04.8

Skip Owen. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users

0:18.0

podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside with David Sparks. Hey David

0:21.0

Hey David! Hey Katie Floyd, how are you today?

0:23.0

I'm well.

0:24.0

You know, Skip, I was so tempted.

0:25.0

I wanted to call you the Rocketman, Skip Owen, but I'm sure you've heard that before.

0:29.7

I have.

0:30.7

In fact, that's one of my nicknames.

0:32.8

Oh, see, maybe I should have done with Rocket Man, Skip,

0:35.8

that maybe that's what I'll actually call the show.

0:38.7

Worklosed with Rocket Man, Skip, own.

0:40.4

We'll see.

0:42.1

Well, skip, you started writing us a little while ago and as soon as you told me where you worked, you had me. I mean, I grew up loving NASA. So skip is a rocket scientist everybody and you're down at the Cape right?

0:56.3

Yeah, yeah I'm at the Kennedy Space Center right there but next to Cape Canaveral in Florida.

1:02.3

Yeah and skip is using his Mac to put us in space.

1:07.0

How could we resist having you on the show, Skip?

1:10.0

Absolutely.

1:12.0

You know, I use my Mac every day and you know it's probably one of the most important tools I have in order to get my job done. So I've had to learn how to use it as efficiently as possible.

1:23.0

Yeah, skip, when we first started corresponding, and it's been a year or so now, you were telling us about how you were integrating some of the MacPower users information workflows that we were talking about

1:34.8

with some folks that were doing a Biodome project and simulating how a Mars mission would work.

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