Hanko de Mayo 2012 edition
project history · status: completed · last event: outcome (2012-05-05)
Ahead of Hank's birthday in May 2012 John asked Nerdfighters what they were doing for Hanko de Mayo; on the day his presents were a NASA-funding email campaign viewers could join and a spare part of the James Webb Space Telescope from Northrop Grumman.
Parts: John asks Nerdfighters to do fun nerdfightastic things for Hanko de Mayo (2012) · John: reveal a present for Hank involving Nerdfighters on Hanko de Mayo (2012) · John asks Nerdfighters to email their elected officials supporting NASA funding as a Hanko de Mayo present for Hank (2012)
Later, under the same rule: John asks Nerdfighters to get or make Hank something for his birthday (May 2009) · John encourages viewers to upload birthday videos for Hank's 30th birthday on May 5 (2010) · John asks viewers to suggest inexpensive presents for Hank's 30th birthday (2010) · John asks Nerdfighters to plan Hank's birthday in a Your Pants thread (Hanko de Mayo 2011) · John asks Nerdfighters to mail belated birthday cards for Hank to the P.O. box (Hanko de Mayo 2011)
About: Hanko de Mayo, James Webb Space Telescope, Northrop Grumman
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-05-01 | proposed | John raises the coming Hanko de Mayo, asking Nerdfighters what they are doing for it. | Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands 00:02:52 |
| 2012-05-05 | outcome | Hanko de Mayo 2012: John's birthday presents to Hank are a NASA-funding email campaign Nerdfighters can join and a spare part of the Webb telescope from Northrop Grumman; video responses carry birthday wishes. | It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! 00:01:13 |
What is said about it
6 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2012-05-01 · Moon Farts: Being Charlie While Running Errands — ask: John: In a P.S., John asks Nerdfighters what they are doing for Hanko de Mayo and hopes they will do lots of fun nerdfightastic things. (hedged) — 00:02:52
- 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John says the James Webb Space Telescope is being built primarily by Northrop Grumman and funded by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, with about 17 countries involved. — 00:00:00
- 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John thanks the people at NASA and Northrop Grumman who made Hank's present possible, especially Ron Birk, Charlie Atkinson and Rolf Danner, and Michael Gardner at EcoGeek for facilitating it. — video description
- 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John: For Hank's birthday John wrote an email to his congressman, Andre Carson, asking him to make sure NASA gets the funding it needs. — 00:01:13
- 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John gives Hank a second present: part of Webb's primary mirror backbone support structure (PMBSS), a spare part Northrop Grumman sent for Hank. — 00:01:43
- 2012-05-05 · It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!! — John says the PMBSS holds the whole telescope together and is made largely of a graphite composite tubing that is very strong but very light; the piece weighs about as much as a paperclip. (playful) — 00:01:43