we've only, uh, gone to Mars

Tuesday, February 03, 2004, at 10:46AM

By Eric Richardson

I was talking to a professor today and he asked me where I worked. I told him JPL, and it didn't ring a bell. "The Jet Propulsion Lab," I tried. "Is that on campus?"

No, it's not. And it's only been in the news pretty much constantly in the past month for having a pair of rovers operating on the surface of Mars. But who would have heard of that?

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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