How did Cave Johnson get rich?

He became a billionaire after winning contracts to manufacture shower curtains for all branches of the U.S. Military except the Navy, winning the '1943 shower curtain salesman of the year' award.

How much moon rock did Cave Johnson buy?

At some point in the late 1970s or early 1980s, Cave Johnson, CEO of Aperture Science, somehow managed to acquire roughly $70 million worth of Moon rock. Upon grinding up and mixing it into gel, he discovered two things - It was an excellent portal conductor and also toxic.

How did Aperture Science make money?

Aperture Fixtures was founded in the late 1940s by Cave Johnson as a shower curtain manufacturer - the name "Aperture Fixtures" was chosen "to make the curtains appear more hygienic" - and by 1943 Cave's company was routinely earning the annual shower curtain salesman award.

Why was Cave Johnson in a head?

Aperture Desk Job

In an alternate universe, Aperture scientists were able to create a robot body for Johnson before his passing. However, the body's head was too small to fit his brain, so they kept building it bigger and bigger until he became a giant head with the robot body crushed underneath.

What happened to Cave Johnson desk job?

In 2022, Simmons once again reprised his role as Cave Johnson for the Steam Deck tech demo Aperture Desk Job. The game takes place some years after Cave's body has died, but his personality has been implanted in a giant computer encased in a stone carving of his own head.

Aperture Desk Job (Final) - Cave Johnson

How long did Cave Johnson live?

Cave Johnson (January 11, 1793 – November 23, 1866) was an American politician who served the state of Tennessee as a Democratic congressman in the United States House of Representatives.

Was Caroline actually deleted?

Caroline was "deleted" only after having saved Chell, which is some unknown time (probably a few hours) after the core transfer. The ending song: "Now little Caroline is in here too, one day they woke me up so I could live forever"

Is Cave Johnson a villain?

Cave Johnson is the posthumous overarching antagonist of the Portal series. He serves as the posthumous overarching antagonist of the 2007 popular video game Portal and its 2011 sequel Portal 2, and the main antagonist of the 2022 spin-off Aperture Desk Job.

How did Doug Rattmann survive?

Doug Rattmann, often referred to as the "Ratman" is a character in both Portal and Portal 2. He was a former scientist working at Aperture and one of the few who survived when GLaDOS flooded the facility with neurotoxin.

How long was Chell asleep?

At the beginning of Portal 2, she is woken up for the first time after 50 days of sleep after the events of the Lab Rat comic, for a mandatory set of physical and mental exercises.

Why is Aperture Science abandoned?

GLaDOS flooded the enrichment center with a deadly neurotoxin, killing most of the scientists. Aperture Science was effectively shut down and placed into a permanent testing cycle by GLaDOS.

How much is a Moon Rock worth today?

NASA assessed the value of the rocks at around $50,800 per gram in 1973 dollars, based on the total cost of retrieving the samples. That works to just a hair over $300,000 a gram in today's currency.

How expensive is a Moon Rock?

Moon rocks collected during the course of lunar exploration are currently considered priceless. In 2002, a safe was stolen from the Lunar Sample Building that contained minute samples of lunar and Martian material.

Is it legal to sell moon rocks?

Apollo Moon Rocks are NASA and US government property which cannot be sold or exchanged to private citizens.

Did Caroline love Cave Johnson?

Caroline is married to Cave Johnson, but she doesn't love him. When she was young and naive she thought she did, but over the years she realized that he "wasn't exactly perfect." Eventually she had an affair with Rattmann, and became pregnant.

What does GLaDOS stand for?

GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is a fictional character from the video game series Portal.

Is Caroline Chell's mother?

In the events of the second game, Glados discovers she is Caroline (basically) and that Chell was her daughter. She becomes more protective and loving torwards Chell.

Why does GLaDOS call Chell fat?

GLaDOS had started fat shaming Chell, who looks to weigh in the ballpark of 120–140 lbs. The comments comparing Chell to a whale or hot air balloon were clearly not interpretations of the in game reality, but an attempt to make Chell feel bad about their physical appearance.

Is Caroline Cave Johnson's wife?

She's married. To science. An unseen character in the single-player campaign of Portal 2, Caroline was the personal assistant to former Aperture Science CEO Cave Johnson, until later becoming his successor.

Who did Caroline love at the end?

While Elena/Katharine kissed most of the male characters on the show, Caroline dated most of them. By the series' end, she gets married to Stefan.

Who is the oldest cave men?

Cheddar Man lived around 10,000 years ago and is the oldest almost complete skeleton of our species, Homo sapiens, ever found in Britain. Research into ancient DNA extracted from the skeleton has helped scientists to build a portrait of Cheddar Man and his life in Mesolithic Britain.

How many kids survived the cave?

BANGKOK — One of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in Thailand in 2018 after being trapped for more than two weeks has died in England, where he was attending a sports academy, the foundation sponsoring his studies said Wednesday.

What is the oldest living cave?

Archaeologists have identified Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa's Kalahari Desert as the world's oldest home, thanks to new evidence confirming the theory that early humans were already occupying the site 2 million years ago.