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Topic: You might be a space geek
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xlsteve
Member Posts: 391
From: Holbrook MA, USA
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 06-29-2009 02:11 PM
   
...wait, there are space simulations on Discovery.com? I've gotta go... |
Kevmac
Member Posts: 267
From: College Station, TX
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 07-18-2009 02:01 AM
...if you sit at your desk at work listening to the Apollo 11 real-time audio replay on your computer while following along chronologically on all 3 in-flight mission transcript documents at the same time on your monitor.or ...if the very first thing you watch on your new 55-inch Sony TV is the Blu-Ray version of When We Left Earth. |
bunnkwio
Member Posts: 113
From: Naperville, IL USA
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 07-18-2009 09:50 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Kevmac:
...if you sit at your desk at work listening to the Apollo 11 real-time audio replay on your computer while following along chronologically on all 3 in-flight mission transcript documents at the same time on your monitor.
Guilty!!! I've had the audio going both at home and work, and spent my lunch hour reading the transcript of the crew.  |
alanh_7
Member Posts: 1252
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 07-18-2009 11:03 AM
I have to admit I was listening to the audio while I was working too. |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-21-2009 04:55 PM
When you name your daughter Module
The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module.Module McGhee turned 40 on Monday. She's a mother and special education teacher, and she's always loved her unusual name. |
Mr Meek
Member Posts: 353
From: Chattanooga, TN
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 07-21-2009 08:04 PM
...when you're watching NASA TV on your ipod touch while standing in line for astronaut autographs at the USSRC next to the Saturn V on the 40th anniversary of the first lunar landing.Did I win the thread? |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 07-22-2009 05:08 PM
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Originally posted by Mr Meek:
Did I win the thread?
Even more if you knew they had free Wi-Fi under the Saturn V!On that topic I just downloaded an update to my iPod touch that now has NASA TV on the "Space Geek" application. Yay! |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 08-07-2009 12:23 PM
You and your family might be space geeks if you come home to a dining room table full of model rocket parts being worked and they are YOUR WIFE'S!!! |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-07-2009 04:46 PM
Re: Above dining room table.I say Fred wins. I gotta meet this woman. Does she have a sister? |
liftoff
Member Posts: 45
From: Watt, Switzerland
Registered: Jun 2008
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posted 08-10-2009 05:55 AM
You might be a space geek if... ...your friends stare at the LiOH filter in your showcase and ask why I keep scrap in my living room. ...there is no wall left in your apartment where you can hang the newest space items you just bought. ...you should buy new shoes but won't spend the money because you're bidding on a Apollo training manual. ...you think about where you will place the F-1 rocket engine if you ever get one. ...you count the days until you arrive at the Kennedy Space Center to meet the Apollo heroes on November 6th - 8ht. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-10-2009 06:29 AM
.... a friend reports "I'm in a planned 5 minute hold" before lighting the grille. .... a gauge in your car breaks and you say "it failed off-scale low." |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 06-15-2010 04:59 PM
You might be a space geek if......your wishlist for Christmas as a kid include a NASA flightsuit or a trip to Space Camp. ...you read "Odyssey" magazine and made sure you knew when your school's library got the next edition. ...you had a subscription to "Final Frontier" ...your first model that you built was a Snap-tite Space Shuttle. ...when your wife asks you how to stop the toilet from running you say "cycle the handle a few times" ...a trip to see your folks in Houston is not complete without a stop at the Johnson Space Center. ...when people on TV talk about spaceflight, you point out their mistakes without missing a beat.
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Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 06-15-2010 07:35 PM
You might be a space geek if the highlight of prom weekend for you was watching the shuttle launch. (While everyone else was at the beach or who knows where, I was at home watching the STS-132 launch.) |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 06-15-2010 10:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by jasonelam:
You might be a space geek if...
I count about three on that list. Space Camp was one of the things I got (not for Christmas though) when I was a kid. Odyssey was a magazine I read in the early 80s and while it wasn't my first kit, I did build a Monogram snap tite shuttle the first year it was out. I also tend to point out mistakes on TV as well.As for me: ...When you spend money on a new issue of a space shuttle kit that is identical plastic-wise to two other kits you have in your stash already JUST because it has newer more accurate decals. ...when you have over 30 space shuttle kits of various scales in your unbuilt collection and two in your "two build" pile. ...when you go more ga ga over the announced release of Airfix's Saturn V Skylab then a brand new 1/32 scale kit of an F-14 Tomcat. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 06-16-2010 02:22 AM
You're a space geek if you make a posting on this thread!!!  |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 06-16-2010 12:29 PM
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Originally posted by moorouge:
You're a space geek if you make a posting on this thread!!!
AMEN! |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-16-2010 03:06 PM
....you are 40-something and looking forward to the release of the next Lego space shuttle kit! |
Prospero
Member Posts: 94
From: Manchester, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 06-06-2011 11:20 AM
If you're a Libertarian but your living room decor includes pictures of two Heroes of the Soviet Union...If you've set yourself a "mission" of visiting every halfway decent space museum in the country... If you routinely refer to the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester as "The Lunar Module" (if you can find a picture of it on the internet you'll understand why)... If your daily Ebay searches include the terms "Helen Sharman", "Soyuz TM-12", "Juno Mission", "flown space" etc... And if you've just re-read this entire thread and decided that it needs reviving after nearly a year dormant... Maybe there's a reason why some of your friends seem to think you're a little bit geeky.
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Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 06-09-2011 06:31 AM
If when your family and friends see something about space they think of you and let you know about it. |
bruce
Member Posts: 916
From: Fort Mill, SC, USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-09-2011 06:35 AM
... a friend asks "how was your birthday?" and you say "nominal". |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 06-09-2011 06:58 AM
OK, I have not added to this in a while but... you might be a space geek "family" ...if your 18 month old grand daughter points at your new model of Ed White's EVA and says "Opa's onaut". |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 06-09-2011 10:10 AM
You have your background of your computer to have a slideshow of the photos you took of a shuttle launch combined with images of the shuttle docked to the ISS. Every five minutes, I get to see a different cool image. |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-09-2011 01:59 PM
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Originally posted by Fra Mauro:
If when your family and friends see something about space they think of you and let you know about it.
Then let you know again, and again... friends of friends let you know, then others let you know. I got an annoying amount of emails when that guy from Seattle published that full sky image he took over several years. |
ASCAN1984
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-11-2011 01:06 AM
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Originally posted by Fezman92:
You have your background of your computer to have a slideshow of the photos...
Never thought of doing that. Brilliant idea |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 06-12-2011 08:10 AM
You're definitely top of the geek class when you dive into a rather seedy shop in the back streets of a rain soaked Venice when on holiday to buy a 12" clip together model of a Saturn V for 7.80 euros. |
astro-nut
Member Posts: 946
From: Washington, IL
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 06-18-2011 06:10 AM
When you name your pet "Apollo". |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 06-20-2011 08:09 AM
when you join a dating site and you use a space name as a handle. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 06-20-2011 09:51 AM
Ladies and gentlemen .... the SpaceVette!  |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-20-2011 04:07 PM
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Originally posted by astro-nut:
When you name your pet "Apollo".
You too? Cat or dog? I have Apollo and Meridiani! |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 06-23-2011 07:54 PM
Part of the fun of moving to a new state is getting a new license plate...  Added to the fun is putting a Saturn V plate on a Prius! Hard to imagine two more opposite extremes in fuel consumption. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 09-30-2011 09:43 PM
Your wife has cut you off, for using the phrases, "go for re-entry" or "pressing for MECO" at really the wrong times if you know what I mean...
You go to KSC and can't figure out which makes you the most sad; Pad 39B being wiped clean or the fact that you know it'll be several years before you will get back there again. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 09-30-2011 11:33 PM
... if the most vivid night-dream memory you ever had (which I had back in 1999) had you floating in the orbiter's flight deck.Everything I've read about zero-g, seen about it or discussed with astronauts about it confirms that my dream factory had it right on the nose: it felt really real. I feel very lucky for that dream. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 10-01-2011 09:49 AM
At my annual review, it was brought up that I had an extensive knowledge of NASA (this primarily due to my 25th anniversary of Challenger article, which had interviews with Bill Nelson, Hoot Gibson and Bob Cenker, along with one of the Journalist-in-Space semifinalists.)Now, if I could only use that power for the good of mankind.... (And mind you, the paper I work for doesn't normally cover space.) |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 750
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 10-12-2011 04:22 PM
You may be a space geek if you ask your wife why she has so many pocketbooks and she replies why do you have so many NASA patches. For the record I don't have them all... and you still have the space shuttle model you built in 1987 as a teen. |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 10-12-2011 07:54 PM
quote:
Originally posted by astro-nut:
When you name your pet "Apollo".
Well, if you have a second pet and you name it "Starbuck" then that just means you are a Battlestar Galactica fan.  A new one ...if on a road trip to see the very last shuttle launch (already geeky enough), you decide to detour your trip slightly so you can meet and hang out with two other space geeks, both on the drive down AND the drive back, even if it is only for an hour or two. (guilty as charged as I met with Gary Milgrom AND Scott "Shuttleman" Phillips). Plus I got to donate some stickers to Gary's "Space Vette". |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 10-12-2011 09:00 PM
...for Halloween you put together the only movie space costume you can think of:  |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 10-13-2011 04:23 AM
...if you can identify the photo altered in the previous post is likely one of Atlantis from STS-135 sometime during RSS rollback (based on the position of the RSS anyway). Or it just means I'm a shuttle geek. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 10-13-2011 08:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Jay Chladek:
...if you can identify the photo altered in the previous post is likely one of Atlantis from STS-135 sometime during RSS rollback (based on the position of the RSS anyway).
You are correct. I can't recall now where I found this photo but I worked pretty hard to match the angle of the sun but got the lighting conditions off (but in all fairness, in Florida you could easily be standing in bright sun and have overcast conditions less than 100 yards away). I had a feeling this photo wouldn't fool anyone here but a print I tacked up on my cubicle wall so far has fooled everyone in my office, as people I work with know I've been to Kennedy Space Center more than once and have worked with the government in the past in roles where I got to see things up close the public often doesn't get to. It's easy for them to assume I managed to get that close to Atlantis before STS-135 went up so nobody has questioned it yet. On Halloween I plan on telling them I was actually in my backyard when that photo of me was taken. As for the second photo, I looked along time to find a photo that didn't show an orbiter and had as close of the lighting conditions and angle as the photo of myself. I think I did halfway decent on that one... |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 10-13-2011 09:47 PM
quote:
Originally posted by p51:
...and for Halloween you put together the only movie space costume you can think of:
How about this: You just might be a space geek if, despite the top-to-bottom, inside-out ridiculousness of that movie... ...You still think it's kinda awesome? "I don't mean to be the materialistic weasel of this group, but do you think we'll get hazard pay out of this?" |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 10-14-2011 09:52 PM
...you watched the recent episode of "Big Bang Theory" where Howard was given a slot in a Soyuz/ISS mission and during it, you got into an argument with your wife over how Bernadette was completely out of line by simply saying, "no" to him going up and how this would cause a breakup with a girlfriend over something like that.Or how about you knew all the reasons that mission specialists don't get picked like this and the character never would be picked? |
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