laughing man with yellow jacket waving his hands, realistic

#BlackHistoryMonth #Ubuntu

Henry T. Sampson
1934-2015

Authur & historian & inventor

Responsible for gamma-electric cell which converted gamma rays into electricity, taking gamma energy & turning it into usable power in 1972

He made cell phones connect out of this world

Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo

#thelastlecture #CarnegieMellon
#lecture

Still so funny! https://youtu.be/jQ8ldD9wKmY

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Apparently this has caught my fancy 🙄

Boring? I think not
Brought by meteoroids and
Bound into borates

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Know when you use them
Radiant and quite intense
They show you the way

(krypton)

#CoSoHaiku
#elementalhaiku

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Ytturbium has
Boatloads of uses and it's
Not even that rare.

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Needed to live, and
Always found on the table
Please pass the popcorn

@codeWhisperer Plutonium would be a good element for this I can't currently think of a haiku but here's my try

Public foe or friend
Has an inner glow from within
Ouch it can burn your skin

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Oh dear, Bob Lazar
They said I didn’t exist.
Indeed, I am here.

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Headstrong quicksilver
Goes where it will, unbound, free
It’s mercurial

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In sky satellite
Radio beaming relay on
Communication

(Iridium)

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My eyes! I can’t see!
Glowing, burning, it’s too bright -
Oxidation light.

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Light- and life-giving,
In batteries, medicine
Very unstable

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Higher in the sky,
Even to the stratosphere,
I take balloons there.