Dave Miller Looking at Things

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the inflatable space habitat and decides one astronaut is probably a sufficient source of hot air for inflation.

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the audience member who asked whether pirate-ninjas are a real unit of measurement and then waxed poetic about Matt Damon’s hair and tries to figure out how to steer the conversation back to Important Things like Mars.

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the machine that will tell us how much CO2 is gathering in the atmosphere like an ominous cloud (using LIDAR).

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the sweet laser communication system that makes his iPhone feel a bit like a Nokia 5110.

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at RoboSimian nostalgically, wondering why he gave up his promising career in back-alley botfighting.

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at his captivated audience at NASA Glenn and wishes wistfully that his students were this attentive.

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at a hot stove and still decides to touch it (albeit with an aerogel oven mitt).

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at his future salad, grown from seed pillows and nourished by LEDs.

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at a space water treatment plant that, like all things space, takes ‘reduce, recycle, reuse’ to the…extreme.

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at a fancy space duster, designed to move moon dust away from a surface (such as a rover solar array) using electric fields.

NASA Chief Technologist David Miller looks at the 3D printed regolith heat shield that will one day prevent future NASA Chief Technologists from burning up in the atmosphere when they return from Looking At Things on Mars. 

NASA Chief Technologist Dave Miller looks desperately for an escape from The Rock at the Bay Area Science Festival (and records a podcast in the process.)