Daniel Middlename-less Choi
Nickname: Dan
Hometown: Cary, NC
Engineering major: BME/EE Double
Anticipated date of graduation: May 2005
Why did you choose this major? What interests you most about this area of engineering?:
I wanted to be involved with engineering that had more medical applications than say...consumer electronics. I got to Duke and realized that it wouldn't be too difficult to double major, so I decided to tack on electrical engineering as well.
What are your long term career plans?:
Start multiple businesses and buy a building at Duke.
How did you get involved in the microgravity, vomit comet project?:
Saw a really cool video that showed students floating around like they were in space and decided I wanted to do that.
What do you hope to find out through your research?:
That cells can respond to microgravity instantaneously.
What were your thoughts when you learned you would be flying on the vomit comet?:
I think everyone was just completely excited.
Do you get motion or air sick? If so, what are you plans for not barfing all over your teammates? And even if you don't normally get airsick, what are you plans for not barfing all over your teammates?:
Not really, I love rollercoasters - but if that happens, I plan on barfing exclusively on Gary so as to reduce the total number of barfed-on team members.
What's your favorite food? What food will you be sure NOT to eat before going on the vomit comet?:
I love Indian food, but I feel like Indian food would come up in a not so pleasant form.
What is something funny or unusual that people don't know about you?:
I like inventing card games (seriously), and I love board games.
What kind of training do you have to undergo in order to ride the vomit comet?:
I think we end up doing the same sort of training that astronauts go through, minus some of the spacesuit simulations.
What part of the experiment(s) are your responsibility?:
I've been building the experiment box that we're going to take up on the plane to perform the experiment.
How is the experimental setup different from what you would do in a normal gravity environment?:
I feel like it's so hard to predict what fluids would act like in microgravity situations, and since our experiment contains a lot of fluids, that's the main thing that I had to consider in designing the box.
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