# This guy is in charge of the Discovery landing? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 8, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-in-charge-of-the-discovery-landing/316107 "2005-08-08T12:46:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![zuma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9c0ed/32.png) [@zuma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zuma)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-in-charge-of-the-discovery-landing/316107/1 "2005-08-08T12:46:40Z")
This is stupid, but still. Is this what the modern-day nerd looks like? That haircut is about 13 years old. I guess it would make him a hardcore nerd. [http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/COVER/050808/STG\_HZ\_Landing\_3a.jpg](http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/Components/Art/COVER/050808/STG_HZ_Landing_3a.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-in-charge-of-the-discovery-landing/316107/2 "2005-08-08T14:19:09Z")
No idea about the haircut, but boy did they pick an excessively melodramatic shot to go along with the story. Hey, it’s bad weather. The astronauts get to stay up one more day. There’s no crisis here, nobody screwed up. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-guy-is-in-charge-of-the-discovery-landing/316107/3 "2005-08-08T14:22:27Z")
Was the landing postponed because that guy needed to masturbate at his desk? Twern’t the haircut that gave me pause.