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Topic: You might be a space geek
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Kirsten Member Posts: 536 From: Delft, Netherlands Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-21-2007 06:02 PM
You might be a space geek if you stare at a blank sheet of paper for a while and then finally conclude that it's lying upside down. |
Duke Of URL Member Posts: 1316 From: Syracuse, NY Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-23-2007 09:01 AM
You might be a Space Geek if you time your 20 million dollar trip to the ISS so you arrive at the ISS when a female crew member is there mainly because it's the ONLY way you'd get to spend a week someplace with a woman. |
Rick Member Posts: 379 From: Yadkinville, NC Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-23-2007 01:04 PM
You might be a space geek if you have a picture of your most prized artifact on your iPod, along with those of your kids... |
SpaceAholic Member Posts: 4437 From: Sierra Vista, Arizona Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-26-2007 01:38 PM
This indvidual's home pegs the "obsessed with" meter. |
TRS Member Posts: 721 From: Wellington, New Zealand Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 03-26-2007 02:04 PM
You might be a space geek if...You don't live in the United States but... You have more American flags on the wall than those of your own country The clocks in your study are set to Houston and Florida time and... The most important part of the news is the currency markets... |
BobbyA Member Posts: 147 From: Northern Virginia Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 03-26-2007 02:18 PM
You might be a space geek if...Every time you watch a fictional TV show or movie about space travel you have to point out all of the inaccuracies to whomever is watching with you. Whenever you get the opportunity to go to the NASM with someone that has never been, you get more excited than a kid on Christmas morning. |
collocation Member Posts: 383 From: McLean, VA, USA Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 03-26-2007 07:18 PM
You might be a space geek if you daughters know who was the third person on the moon |
Mary13 Member Posts: 24 From: Vienna, Austria, Europe Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-27-2007 10:17 AM
You might be a space geek if you have watched the movie Apollo 13 10 times, the making of 3 times, have read the book by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger and Failure Is Not An Option by Gene Kranz (or a similar book) and are still looking for more stuff on Apollo 13. |
micropooz Member Posts: 1512 From: Washington, DC, USA Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 03-27-2007 02:23 PM
Similar to what Mary just wrote - If as a kid you saw "2001" ten times, read the book ten times, read "The Making of...", read "Lost Worlds of 2001", and then started all over again with "2010"... |
Lunar rock nut Member Posts: 911 From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A. Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-27-2007 02:50 PM
You might be one if you find yourself compelled to keep this thread going and going and going... |
mdmyer Member Posts: 900 From: Humboldt KS USA Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 12:17 AM
You are standing inside of a cement storage silo that is 110 feet tall and 33 feet in diameter and you think to yourself, this is almost the same size as the SkyLab. |
Gilbert Member Posts: 1328 From: Carrollton, GA USA Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 08:14 AM
quote: Originally posted by micropooz: Similar to what Mary just wrote - If as a kid you saw "2001" ten times, read the book ten times, read "The Making of...", read "Lost Worlds of 2001", and then started all over again with "2010"...
Ditto, and used 2001 for license plates, had a 2001 viewing party on the night of Dec. 31, 2000 (where everyone but me fell asleep), had an Apollo 11 20th, 25th and 30th anniversary party where everyone but me fell asleep... |
Rick Member Posts: 379 From: Yadkinville, NC Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-28-2007 11:48 AM
You might be a space geek if you've ever given a presentation on spaceflight to your kid's kindergarten class, and you already had enough NASA stickers to give to everyone in the class... and then some.You might be a space geek if you can interview any race car driver alive without giving it a second thought because that's your job, but you absolutely fell to pieces the first time you interviewed a moonwalker. |
Mary13 Member Posts: 24 From: Vienna, Austria, Europe Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-28-2007 03:48 PM
You might be a space geek if you should do a presentation of 2-5 minutes about any topic in English at school and you choose something about the Apollo programme and talk for more than 20 minutes. |
Prospero Member Posts: 94 From: Manchester, UK Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-28-2007 04:43 PM
How did you manage to get the time down to 20 minutes?
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micropooz Member Posts: 1512 From: Washington, DC, USA Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 06:18 PM
You know you are a space geek when your wife calls all of your space books and magazines "space porn". |
BMckay Member Posts: 3218 From: MA, USA Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 03-28-2007 07:24 PM
Geek: if you just watched the Six Million Dollar man episode "Athena 1" and picked out what was wrong, what patches they were wearing and what flight video that they spliced in.Trivia Contest- Who was the first women in space according to that show? |
Mary13 Member Posts: 24 From: Vienna, Austria, Europe Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-29-2007 07:36 AM
quote: Originally posted by Prospero: How did you manage to get the time down to 20 minutes?
Well, I would have talked longer, but we had three presentations before me in the same lesson and also did some other things... and 20 minutes after I started, the lesson was over. |
MarylandSpace Member Posts: 1336 From: Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 03-29-2007 09:40 AM
You check Heavens Above on a regular basis for sighting opportunities to see the ISS even though you have seen it over 100 times.Each time I see the ISS I am in awe. |
tegwilym Member Posts: 2331 From: Sturgeon Bay, WI Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 03-29-2007 11:37 AM
How about a lucky space geek who has a girlfriend that is just as screwed up? She came over to visit once, and saw my 1/96 Saturn V hanging above my couch in the living room. She hasn't left since! :) |
Mary13 Member Posts: 24 From: Vienna, Austria, Europe Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-29-2007 11:39 AM
...if you stay up until 3 a.m. to watch a rocket launch at NASA-TV or another webcast despite you'll have to get up at 6 a.m. and you still haven't finished your homework. |
E2M Lem Man Member Posts: 846 From: Los Angeles CA. USA Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-29-2007 07:33 PM
You might just be a space geek if... you are upset that you never got the Apollo operations crew manual - BLOCK 1 EDITION!You might just be a space geek if you are driving down the road looking into the car with the NASA stickers, AND YOU KNOW THE DRIVER! (or wonder who or where the driver is and works) You might just be a space geek if you have made your own spacesuit mockup - TO GO WITH THE LRV YOU MADE! I am such a geek! |
Jim Member Posts: 73 From: San Antonio TX Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-29-2007 08:23 PM
If your 4 year old grandson hears someone count 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5... and he finishes by saying "4, 3, 2, 1, 0 liftoff. We have liftoff..."My grandson did this the other day. |
ea757grrl Member Posts: 729 From: South Carolina Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 03-29-2007 10:07 PM
Or when you have passengers in your car and you instruct them, "Close and lock your visors. Initiate 02 flow." ![](http://collectspace.com/ubb/smile.gif) |
Mary13 Member Posts: 24 From: Vienna, Austria, Europe Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-30-2007 02:29 PM
...if you tell your classmates that the picture of a space shuttle launch in your physics book was taken in 1981 because the tank is covered with white latex insulation....or if you wonder if the rocket that launched in the film you saw in science at school is an Ariane 4 or an earlier Ariane version. I did it every time we watched the film and we watched it two or three times. (It's a pity that the scene of the launch in that film is only 10 sec or so long.) |
Robert Pearlman Editor Posts: 42981 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-30-2007 02:42 PM
If your hotel of choice in Florida calls you when there is a shuttle launch delay to notify you that they have already changed your reservation to reflect the new dates (as they know you'll be coming regardless of when it launches), you might just be a space geek... |
DavidH Member Posts: 1217 From: Huntsville, AL, USA Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 04-02-2007 01:12 PM
...if your loved ones have souvenir t-shirts from at least four different NASA centers... |
MarylandSpace Member Posts: 1336 From: Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 04-03-2007 09:46 AM
You might be a space geek if... Twice you have driven 1,000+ miles each way for a "long weekend" to attend the AHOF induction. My co-workers and students would ask me, "Where were you Thursday and Friday?" and they would be in shock and/or disbelief when I told them I drove to Florida for the weekend. Meeting the space pioneers and making friendships with cS members made it more than worthwhile. |
Prospero Member Posts: 94 From: Manchester, UK Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 05-15-2007 07:37 AM
If you're seriously thinking of driving 200-odd miles to one of those horrible commercial autograph-signing events just to meet Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell, are you in serious danger of tipping over the edge into full-blown geekdom? |
86horn Member Posts: 73 From: College Station, Texas Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 05-18-2007 09:47 AM
...if you are planning a trip to England and want to go up to the Space Centre and your kids who are going with you say "dad, we have been to the smithsonian, and you have been to 7 centers. Do we have to?" ...ingrates |
Naraht Member Posts: 232 From: Oxford, UK Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 05-18-2007 02:55 PM
If you once wrote a filk song about the Apollo Guidance Computer.
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mjanovec Member Posts: 3811 From: Midwest, USA Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 05-18-2007 03:20 PM
quote: Originally posted by Prospero: If you're seriously thinking of driving 200-odd miles to one of those horrible commercial autograph-signing events just to meet Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell, are you in serious danger of tipping over the edge into full-blown geekdom?
Naw, 500 miles (one way) is the bare minimum for that distinction! ![](http://collectspace.com/ubb/wink.gif) |
tegwilym Member Posts: 2331 From: Sturgeon Bay, WI Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 05-18-2007 05:42 PM
...you have a cat named Apollo and another one named Meridiani. |
ApolloAlex Member Posts: 390 From: Yeovil, England Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 06-12-2007 05:15 AM
quote: Originally posted by Prospero: If you're seriously thinking of driving 200-odd miles to one of those horrible commercial autograph-signing events just to meet Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell, are you in serious danger of tipping over the edge into full-blown geekdom?
Well I've done that 7 times, guess that makes me officially a geek. ![](http://collectspace.com/ubb/biggrin.gif) |
bigcrash3 Member Posts: 36 From: Summerfield, NC, USA Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 06-12-2007 04:05 PM
Oh my god, I drove 600 miles to the show last weekend (my first) ...and I had a GREAT TIME. I'll take the geek label, I've been called worse. |
tegwilym Member Posts: 2331 From: Sturgeon Bay, WI Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-12-2007 04:54 PM
I flew about 3,000 miles with a stop in Chicago to get there for that. On the way home I stopped in Memphis, Denver, then finally home to Seattle. I think the guys from the UK got home before I did! ![](http://collectspace.com/ubb/smile.gif) My girlfriend was volunteering at a space gala here in Seattle (Neil was there) while I was at the banquet at KSC. At least she didn't have to feel she was missing out! |
Kirsten Member Posts: 536 From: Delft, Netherlands Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 07-22-2007 08:30 AM
...you refer to your wastebasket as "File Eleven". |
Frewi80 Member Posts: 120 From: Hawaii. Waipahu Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 07-24-2007 02:33 AM
...when you apply at the European Space Agency to join the Mars 500 program (500 + days in an isolated space in Antarctica) and that you're already over 50+ years old and not even citizen of the ESA member states! (these are the main requirements, max 50 years old and ESA member!)I did! And got a nice answer from ESA. |
NavySpaceFan Member Posts: 655 From: Norfolk, VA Registered: May 2007
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posted 07-24-2007 12:32 PM
You name a cat "MECO," cover your work cubicle with mission patches, proudly display your pics with astronauts, and keep a stone from the Crawler/Transporter track on your desk. |
Moonwalker1954 Member Posts: 245 From: Montreal, Canada Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 07-24-2007 06:42 PM
Every weeknight you try to go to bed at 10:56... |