(September 12, 2024 at 10:10 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 12, 2024 at 8:45 pm)Fireball Wrote: “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”- Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter to Robert Hooke.
Space Karen has done some crazy Buck-Rogersesque things. But I can assure you, having worked in aerospace and defense for 31 years, the things "he" has done come from his recruitment of the accomplished people he sourced from other defense contractors in the area. To wit- TRW, Northrop Grumman, Hughes Space and Com, Raytheon, etc. In my checkered past, I've worked at every one of them, and others. He's no "Galaxy Brain", he just provided the money- which he got from daddy. His ego is every bit as obese as the chump's and for the very same reasons- inherited wealth. At least he hasn't pissed it all away like the chump- he hasn't gone bankrupt. Yet.
Hey FB -- when did you work for Raytheon, and where? Mom and Dad both worked for them, Mom retired out of their Massachusetts plant in 2006. I wonder if we know someone who knew someone ...
El Segundo, back in the mid-'90s.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.