This is hilarious and so typical of scientists vs governments/officials dealing with this kind of stuff.
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RT @shantirrao
The only required class for Caltech physics PhDs used to be Lunch with Robbie (Rochus Vogt, former provost). Robbie told us about the time when, as a grad student during the Cold War, he sent a balloon over the USSR … 🧶
https://twitter.com/shantirrao/status/1624996079610793984