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My father did the radar guidance system for the Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles - for Raytheon.

Yes, they're having problems with getting cleared people. It isn't the top-paying gig it used to be.

Neat. My uncle worked on nuke stuff at Lawrence Livermore. He used to sleep talk incoherent phrases. I never made sense of anything but it was fun to guess. Stuff like "no, the crosstalk will ruin in" or "it's too close to the physics pack they will not approve".

I’ve always wondered if “known sleep talker” could put clearance at risk. Or you commit to always sleep in a SCIF…

I am a sleep talker, at least for me it would be very difficult to disclose classified information in my sleep because my sleep talking is mostly babbling, not words. The few times I have said actual words it's very simple sentences like "let's go."

“Physics package” is usually a phrase meaning the explodey bits of a nuclear weapon, so that lines up.

One of the interesting quirks of living in America is how expensive everything is while seemingly paying little to the workers who provide it.

? Americans have more disposable income than Europeans.

How much of it do they need to spend on healthcare?

And, in general, things are cheaper in the U.S. than in Europe, even without considering VAT or income tax.

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