Who is the coolest person you know of?

[trk@aussie.zone]

That's some vintage memeing

[southsamurai@sh.itjust.works]

Sorry to inform you that I'm cooler

[vinesnfluff@pawb.social]

I'm basically a dinosaur by internet standards.

[bluesquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org]

Chuck Ragan

[corno@lemm.ee]

My mom ️

[dragonsinaroom@lemmy.world]

Coolman!

[naich@lemmings.world]

My mum says I'm cool.

[rivan@lemm.ee]

John Brown

[0ops@lemm.ee]

Well I was gonna say I.C. Weiner

[yogthos@lemmy.ml]

Would be between Vijay Prashad and Michael Parenti for living people.

[canopyflyer@lemmy.world]

That I've met personally?

Don't know, but here's a list that I consider the coolest people I've personally met and I'll give a brief synopsis on how I met them:

Neil Armstrong: Went to get a haircut in Loveland, OH where I was living at the time. Walked into an old school barber shop that was on Loveland-Medaira RD, just down from Krogers. There were three men in the shop, the barber, who was cutting the hair of a man in the chair, and one more who was reading a newspaper, so I couldn't see his face. The barber finished up and looked at the gentleman reading the newspapers and said; "Neil you're up next." The man put the newspaper down and I found myself face to face with the first man to walk on the moon. Yeah... It was a trip to say the least. He lived in the town next to Loveland and he was there looking for a new barber, as his previous one was a bit of a creep.

Paul Tibbets: My Demonstration Skydiving team was performing in an airshow at Lunken Airport on the east side of Cincinnati. Col Tibbets was there as part of a Hiroshima presentation. After my team wrapped up after the show I toured the displays. I had my team shirt on and walked up to the table where he was sitting. He asked a few questions and said my team and I were really brave doing demo jumps... Yeah.. the guy that dropped the first nuclear bomb called my team and I... Brave... Rather a surreal moment for me. He was really interesting to talk to.

Chuck Yeager: Gen Yeager drove the pace car for the 1986 Indy 500. My high school marching band also was marching in the parades and around the track. Yes, I'm really old, I was 16 that year. Some friends and I were walking around the campus where we were staying and actually just ran into him... Literally. I knew who he was, but none of my friends did not, so I didn't say anything. He gruffly dismissed us and walked off. Yes, we did apologize for running into him.

James Doohan: He gave a presentation at Indiana University Southeast in the early 80's and my Dad took me to see it. He never announced that he was staying afterward and for some reason my Dad and I hung around after most everyone left. There was only about 8 people that were in the auditorium and we got time to talk directly to him. He was the type of person that you just... Loved. He was an actual good person who was also very intelligent. I actually cried when he died in 2005.

Anyway, that's my submission of people that I think of as "cool" that I had direct interactions with. Other's than that I would consider cool:

John Young: Robert Crippen, in an interview, stated that his heart rate while Columbia was sitting on the pad, for its first launch was over 140. John's was 70. Yeah, John Young was sitting on top of thousands of pounds of brand new untested rocket and wasn't bothered in the least... FUCK ME. If that ain't cool, I don't know what is. I never got to meet him, unfortunately.

[xiisadaddy@lemmygrad.ml]

Xi Jingping

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

Hey, do you know who ELSE is really cool?