Hello Troops,
How about a blast from the past?
Many of you younglings to the Space Center are rubbing your eyes in wonderment at this picture. You’re texting each other seeking the answer. What is this room? Where is it located? Is there a simulator at the Space Center hidden away behind some fake wall? Is this like Disneyland’s Club 33. A place for ‘special’ guests. A place where the Space Center reserves its best stories for preferred clients? If so, you’d like to know the requirements to get membership wouldn’t you?
Let me answer your questions and put you out of your misery. No, there isn’t a secret simulator hidden away somewhere at Central School. No, we don’t have a Club 33 where members pay thousands of dollars a year for membership. I wish there was but our Club 33 would be named 33 because of the price we could get away with charging for our memberships - $33.00 :)
So now that we’ve dispensed with that possibility, let’s look at the clues. It is a room with stadium seating and computers. Now think carefully. What simulator at the Space Center resembles the one you see here?
Yes, its the Magellan. The original Magellan from years past.
I’m the dashing young man at the front of the room doing what I do best - talking. If allowed I tend to hog the conversation in any room. My magnetism and gravity (attributed to my larger than average mass) draws people’s attention like water falling toward the drain in the bathtub. I like to think everything I say is interesting, although I fear the reason they are all so enraptured with my prose is my position as their boss.
sigh......
The person standing against the wall in the green shirt is Kyle Herring. Lorraine Houston sits to his right in pink. Lets see if you can pick out some of the other staff pictured.
Megan Warner?
Metta Smith?
Dustin Robinson?
Scott Slaugh?
Dave Wall?
Bryson Lystrup?
Brady Young?
Julie Billings?
Landon Hemsley?
The old Magellan went extinct about four years ago. Out of the ashes rose our new Magellan. I admit there are times I miss the old simulator. It had a charm of its own. Don’t you just dig those strawberry iMacs? Groovy is the word that comes to mind.
But, we are all happy with the new and improved Magellan. Less colorful than the original but easier to operate and easier on the eye.
Mr. Williamson
are you messing with us
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That ship is like 70s style pretty cool. Are those workers like Megan Warner Metta Smith
ReplyDeleteDustin Robinson Bryson Lystrup Brady Young etc.. working there yet?
Ah, back in the day...
ReplyDeleteA secret problem with that design was that during those days we often used Nerf dart weapons to practice security training. Unfortunately, there was a gap in the consoles at the back of the Macs, and sure enough the darts would mysteriously end up falling deep into the consoles. The only way to retrieve them was to occasionally take a youngling, remove the computer, and dangle the lifeform into the tiny gap to pick up the darts. Ah, the good old times.
Are you sure that is Kyle H.? It looks like Austin M.
ReplyDeleteDo you have pictures of the new Magellan simulator? I haven't been in it for four years... so I recognized this picture right away. I would enjoy seeing pictures of the new Magellan! Well, I guess it's not so new anymore... =D
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