There were three men came out of the West
Three kings both great and high
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon must die.
They took a tank and ran him down
With bullets in his head
And they have sworn a solemn oath
John Mastodon was dead
But when the Spring came kindly on
And showers began to fall
John Mastodon got up again
And did surprise them all...
🎶.....Did surprise them aaall! 🎵 Yep. It fits.
How do you even come up with this? 🤣
I confess to convenient cognitive priming. I had watched this only moments before seeing the post.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtEALzoHcWc
Also, nice to meet a fellow aviation addict. Paragliders here, what's your air-of-choice?
That's fun. My Dad spent his career as an engineer at KSC. I was at the VIP site for 1st launch of STS...
First launch? You mean STS-1? I saw that live on TV when I was in junior high, in Mexico City. I was always an aero kid, but thereafter I only had one interest: finding out how the Shuttle worked. In Summer of 2002 I finally had *fully* answered that question. It only took 2 Masters Degrees.
Met interesting people along the way. Hans Mark (RIP) was my undergrad Orbital Mechanics teacher at UT Austin (Go Horns!)
Way cool.
Yes, I was in the bleachers with ESA people at STS-1. I was in high school.
Bet that left an impression. Anyhow I'm trying to find more aero people from birdsite migrating to Fediverse, but this newfangled Mastodon thing still confuses people and even on Twitter the bulk of fans are still in highschool (!)
I suggest a good professor from UT San Antonio, who Tweets a lot of educational aero science (when he's not critiquing Man Child); he's got a couple of bot accounts here:
@JohannesWilhelm @neilhimself @drchriscombs
Thank you very much for that. I'll check him out.
Yesterday, I read a suggestion to search #introduction and #newhere hash tags, and to use them liberally in your bio and a pinned introduction post on your own timeline.
I'm also searching and following (you know you can follow a hashtag?) hashtags of interest. In truth, it's working better than any other site for finding the right people.
Neil Gaiman
John Bailey
Johannes Wilhelm
