A viral Chinese dance troupe took its act abroad for "Chinese cultural export", only to face a barrage of criticism from Singaporean netizens: "Just hurry back to your own country and stop embarrassing us."
She is just one of many SpaceX engineers but after her Asian face appeared in a few clips the whole Chinese social media got super excited. They insist that her name is Guo Can (郭璨),graduated from Tsinghua University with Master's & Ph.D., born from Jiangsu Province, she holds the power of terminating any flight, she is the SpaceX Queen, etc. Now herself comes out to refute the rumors — it's all lie!
Whenever there is something great in this world, some people always think it's due to the great contribution of Chinese.
Lots of misinformation being spread about me the last couple days, so some quick facts
- My name is Tina, not Guo Can (or Jessie Anderson). I’m one of many Raptor flight operators on console since flight2. Before that, I wrote control software for the vehicle, and was a stage software operator for flight1
- Been living in Starbase since surborbital days in 2020, absolutely love it down here. The people are wonderful and so so excited about the mission - the lows are lows but the highs are very high. My friends here are the best in the world, and I love them to the moon/mars and back :)
- The reason I decided to say something was because facts matter, but also because wanted to share my real life journey to how I got here. I don’t have a masters or a PhD, I started full time directly after college after 2x internships also at spacex doing software/automation. I was on a couple design teams in college, including Stanford solar car + mars rover. When I started spacex as a software engineer, I knew very little about fluids / propulsion engineering - I learned a lot of it on the job with some pretty incredible mentors. Then I swapped over to propulsion about halfway through my career and have been loving it ever since