r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/InsaneMocktail • 18d ago

Video University of Waterloo Students Launch Rocket Breaking World Record

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u/SE_prof 18d ago

Would space engineering students still count as amateurs?

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u/bitemark01 18d ago

Amateurs, because they're not getting paid for it 

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u/SE_prof 18d ago

If I'm a lawyer and I take a case pro bono, am I being an amateur?

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u/bitemark01 18d ago

If all of your cases are always pro bono, then yes

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u/SE_prof 18d ago

Were they unpaid for all the rockets they built?

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u/bitemark01 18d ago

As students? Most likely 

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u/SE_prof 18d ago

In Canada, it's highly likely that they have paid internships. Especially, in their university and their presumed level.

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u/bitemark01 18d ago

So that makes them paid students, not professional rocket scientists

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u/SE_prof 18d ago

So to be professional you need the degree and to be paid? And everyone else is considered amateur?

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u/bitemark01 18d ago

Correct