humdinger44

humdinger44 t1_j6sg9b5 wrote

Reply to Meet Lonnie Johnson, the NASA engineer that invented the Super Soaker. Now he's working to help solve climate change with his latest inventions, a solid state battery as well as an entirely new type of engine. by captainquirk

> Here are just a few of his accolades:

>*Master’s degree in nuclear engineering

>*U.S. Air Force engineer who worked on the B-2 ​“stealth” bomber program

>*NASA systems engineer for both the Galileo mission to Jupiter and the Cassini mission to Saturn

>*Inventor of the Super Soaker water gun

>*Inventor of the Nerf N-Strike dart gun

>*National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee

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humdinger44 t1_irh88jk wrote

Reply to comment by humdinger44 in TIL of Joseph Trombino, a security guard who survived the 1981 Brink’s robbery in Nyack, NY. He continued working for the company for the next 20 years, was nearly killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and was ultimately killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. by schmo_hawk

Replying to myself:

Did fucking haliburton and kbr conspire with the KSA to pay advisors to GWB to recommend invading Afghanistan and Iraq?

Jesus I have to get over to r/conspiracy. This is my new life

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humdinger44 t1_irgynee wrote

Reply to comment by theGnomad in TIL of Joseph Trombino, a security guard who survived the 1981 Brink’s robbery in Nyack, NY. He continued working for the company for the next 20 years, was nearly killed in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and was ultimately killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. by schmo_hawk

The three letter agency (not THAT one, the other one) needed the funds from the bank job to fund [redacted] and [redacted] was the [redacted] guy who didn't know it but he was originally supposed to be 'managed' by [redacted] but the [redacted] had an unrelated cardiac event and was subsequently [redacted] after the opportunity was lost. During his recovery [redacted] activated protocol [redacted] on the subject in question to mitigate personal responsibility for operation [redacted]. In order to eliminate suspicion & possible repercussions of his failure [redacted] conducted [redacted] with funding from the Kingdom of S[redacted] A[redacted] on September 11 2001. Follow-on operations at the convenience of the U[redacted] S[redacted] are seen as fortuitous to the K[redacted]S[redacted]A[redacted] due to problems of non compliance within O[redacted]P[redacted]E[redacted]C[redacted].

Rep report for [redacted] provided by [redacted].

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