Aerospace Engineer, UTK & UTSI alum, @Vol_Hoops Letterman #43 - Per aspera ad astra - Research & Technology
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Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
BREAKING: President Trump has announced plans to transform NASA's former Space Shuttle landing facility at Kennedy Space Center into a 1,900-acre aerospace demonstration venue intended to rival the Paris Air Show.
Speaking at the UP Summit in Florida, Trump said the site would host major aircraft, spacecraft and emerging transportation technology demonstrations from companies around the world.
The proposed development would use the former Shuttle Landing Facility, a historic runway that supported NASA's Space Shuttle program.
Trump said the venue could eventually attract hundreds of thousands of visitors annually and generate billions of dollars in economic activity, with ambitions to host the world's largest aerospace show within approximately two years.
The announcement signals plans to expand Kennedy Space Center's role beyond launches and NASA missions into a major international venue for aerospace exhibitions, demonstrations and commercial partnerships.
ALT Credit: White House/Youtube
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
This MiG-29 makes some absolutely crazy noises.
The boss of NASA just casually pushing his personal fighter jet to the limit over the Shuttle Landing Facility 🤯
@NASAAdmin Jared Isaacman's full flyover in his MiG-29 aircraft, flying over the Kennedy Space Center's former Shuttle Landing Facility as part of @NASA's Max Power event weekend.
@NASASpaceflight ongoing coverage: youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0tHvPr…
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HOLY CR*P 🚨 How is this even possible??
All of California’s major candidate election results are the EXACT SAME percentages for Democrats and Republicans
Governor 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Lieutenant Governor 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Secretary of State 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Controller 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Treasurer 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Attorney General 64% (D) vs 35% (R)
Supreme Court Justice: Joshua Groban 72% (D) vs 28% (R)
Supreme Court Justice: Kelli M. Evans 72% (D) vs 28% (R)
These don’t look like real election results, they look like a computer algorithm
Our elections are fake
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The cartels made the Houston Mayor an offer he couldn’t refuse: “lead or gold.” Houston then declared itself a sanctuary city, and in January, the entire state of Texas will follow suit.
Pretty much every Texas Democrat who won in the midterms is on the payroll of the cartels, from the governor to the lieutenant governor to the attorney general, Comptroller, Land Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, multiple seats on the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals; they flipped the Texas House and even elected a U.S. Senator, etc.
GPS—Roughly 200,000–250,000 adults with a felony conviction live in Houston — on the order of 1 in 7 to 1 in 8 adults in the city. For Harris County as a whole, that’s 400,000–500,000.
Scale: HPD sources put Houston at ~353 gangs and ~20,000 documented gang members (KHOU); the 2018 HPD gang map listed 140+ gangs. HPD’s Gang Division runs the Gang Tracker database and the Multi-Agency Gang Task Force.
Official Texas DPS threat tiers: Tier 1 (highest) = Tango Blast and its cliques (Houstone is the Houston clique and the largest gang in the region), Texas Mexican Mafia, Latin Kings, MS-13, Barrio Azteca. Tier 2 includes Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, Aryan Circle, Texas Syndicate, Bloods, Crips, Bandidos, Gangster Disciples.
Local/street sets: 5th Ward Circle, 52 Hoover Crips, 59 Bounty Hunters, 59 Piru, Southwest Cholos, La Primera, Treetop/Hilltop Bloods, Hiram Clarke 77, South Park 102 Neighborhood Piru, and dozens more cataloged on stophoustongangs.org — plus newer hybrid crews (Free Money, YNS) that drew federal RICO indictments in 2026, and the Homietos OMG.
Geography: Southwest Houston/Alief, Greenspoint, 5th/3rd Ward, South Park, Sunnyside, Hiram Clarke; suburban spillover into Katy and Cypress.
Houston, buckle up; no one is coming to save you. ☠️
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
Just went airborne in the JETSON ONE. Personal flight isn't the future anymore — it's here. ⚡🚁 @jetson_aero
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
The Pittsburgh Steelers were the premier pro sports dynasty of the 70s but, then again, nobody else had Kenny Rogers.
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JUST IN: Midterm numbers now showing statistically impossible swings in Texas and all over the country.
And it wasn't people moving from Republicans to Democrats or staying home as they tried to say. Magically new democrat voters in masses appeared out of thin air.
Analyses claim over 2,100 counties moved toward Democrats.
Republican totals appear to have increased, not decreased as they have been trying to paint the narrative, while Democrats gained large numbers of new voters and votes.
Super Intelligence assessments have put the odds at roughly 1 in trillions.
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BREAKING – Massive Corruption in Texas – Nearly 3 Million Voters Added to Voter Rolls Without Proof of Citizenship joehoft.com/breaking-massive…
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
.@BlueOrigin has just announced two big upgrades to New Glenn: Glenn Stage 3 and Northstar.
GS3 will bump the payload capacity to the Moon to 20 tonnes, while Northstar will produce an advertised 324tf of thrust, providing a much needed improvement → youtu.be/rJfZ3HfIcGI
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
How cool is it to see two stages side by side from @spacex and @blueorigin?! Max Power is gonna be amazing!!!
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
This paper answers why confident idiots run the world.
Cornell University published a psychological paper that explains every terrible boss, every loud influencer, and every broken corporate hierarchy.
It’s called “Unskilled and Unaware of It.”
they tested participants across logic, grammar, and humor to measure the gap between actual performance and self-perception.
And the results are wild.
participants scoring in the bottom 12th percentile consistently believed they were operating in the 62nd percentile.
they were not lying. they were literally incapable of recognizing their own incompetence.
the paper revealed a brutal paradox:
the exact skills required to master a domain are the exact same skills required to accurately evaluate your own competence in that domain.
if you lack the skill, you inherently lack the cognitive capacity to realize you are failing.
this creates a dangerous systemic loop.
the incompetent are blessed with absolute, blinding certainty. their brain protects them from their own ignorance, allowing them to speak first, demand authority, and never second-guess their decisions.
meanwhile, the actual experts suffer the exact inverse.
top performers in the study consistently underestimated their rank. because a task was easy for them, they falsely assumed it was easy for everyone else.
they hesitate. they obsess over nuance. they assume they have nothing unique to add.
we are biologically wired to confuse confidence with competence.
the loudest person in the room gets promoted, gets funded, and gets the microphone, not because they know what they are doing, but because they are physically incapable of seeing what they don't.
the only defense mechanism is building systems that stop rewarding absolute certainty and start demanding proof of work.
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
NEW: Nebraska head coach Matt Rhule says his daughter was accosted after the Washington loss:
"A guy walked up to my 13-year-old daughter and was like, 'F-U and F your dad.' I'm not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up. I'm not going to see my daughter shook... . I'm not coaching for the guy that attacked my daughter, I'm coaching for the people in the boat."
He added: "I said to my daughter, 'If daddy’s gotta retire, if I have retire because I don’t want you guys growing up in that environment...'"
(via @HuskerOnline)
on3.com/news/matt-rhule-clai…
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
La exposición del Space Shuttle Endeavour va a ser muy loca.
Estará en el California Science Center y se podrá visitar a partir del 13 de noviembre.
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
If you’re under 26, you have never lived a day without someone orbiting above you.
26 years ago today, the first resident crew arrived at the ISS. Humanity has had a home in space ever since.
The research and advances made possible by our crews, teams on the ground and international partners have helped prepare us to live and work on the Moon and Mars.
As we transition to the next era of our presence in low Earth orbit, we build on everything they have made possible.
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
CONGRATS to the #DetroitLions on the Win and a game well played today.
CHEERS to all my ‘72 undefeated teammates and #MiamiDolphin fans on our now 54 year record! Cheers! 🍾🥃🚬🐬
Michael Johanson 🍊 🚀 retweeted
This might be the worst college football season since I can remember. There is zero elite teams, the ranked teams don’t even look good. NIL has created a lot of parity but the other issue is, it’s created a lack of hunger. College kids ultimate goal was to make it to the league so they can change their families lives, now they get paid that money from the jump and don’t care. You’re seeing it translate into the NFL as well. Idk where this goes from here but I don’t have a good feeling about it. Sports are going downhill fast.