What does NASA mean to you?

Question

I'm from a third world country, and here we have a saying used when someone is very intelligent and bright; we use to say "he (she) should work in NASA". What would you understand from such a saying? What equivalent do you use? This idiom is positive, it doesn't have any negative connotation like 'Mr. Know-it-all' or anything like that.

Answer 1

Hi Hanoi5

Good question.
I like the way you use NASA in your country.
We would understand it as somebody that is
intelligent and effective, not some M. Know-it-all.

We would probably say a few idioms such as
he/she is a rocket scientists, or
he/she is a Bill Gates (Microsoft).
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Northern Armenia Salvation Army.

Nazi Association South Africa

Nazi Association South America

Am I right or is it something to do with Rocket Science

Answer 3

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Answer 4

NASA says to me tax fraud, and messing about with the universe. Nothing to do with brain, more money orientated. They did not go to the moon ya know. Tax scam. Those Yanks, can do anything, they own things, like poverty, and deprivation and bad food.

Answer 5

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

It means the person is intelligent and/or interested in space.

Answer 6

NASA is my ticket off this planet.

So,therefore they are the coolest.

I wish our Govt would spend the budget on them instead of the pentagon.

Answer 7

Need Another Seven Astronauts

Answer 8

It is like saying "he is a rocket scientist" although sometimes it is used Sarcastically also.

Answer 9

the scientist? the answer to all our problems?

would you travel in anything they built???

Answer 10

I would use the same thing.