|
Author
|
Topic: You might be a space geek
|
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
|
posted 10-15-2011 09:00 AM
   
quote:
Originally posted by p51:
...you watched the recent episode of "Big Bang Theory"
...and noticing that Howard's Saturn V model was missing three of its F-1 engines? |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
|
posted 10-15-2011 09:34 AM
...and how they cut down the training time to only a few months as opposed to the three years. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
|
posted 10-15-2011 09:59 AM
quote:
Originally posted by p51:
Or how about you knew all the reasons that mission specialists don't get picked like this and the character never would be picked?
The show said he was flying as a payload specialist in the post-shuttle era, so as an industry (university) sponsored spaceflight participant he could have very well been chosen as described (reference Charlie Walker's experience). quote:
Originally posted by Fezman92:
...and how they cut down the training time to only a few months as opposed to the three years.
The training time for a spaceflight participant (for a "13 day mission") is a few months.And the fact we're dissecting this makes us all space geeks... |
Richard Rogers
Member Posts: 49
From: Desoto, Tx
Registered: Sep 2011
|
posted 10-15-2011 07:59 PM
I was thinking the same thing. |
ApolloAlex
Member Posts: 390
From: Yeovil, England
Registered: Oct 2004
|
posted 10-26-2011 04:07 PM
...if you just purchased a matchbook for Wolfies Deli off eBay! |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
|
posted 10-26-2011 04:20 PM
...if your college spring break plans are to visit FL or CA just to visit KSC or JPL. Or if you just use your spring break to visit any NASA or air and space center. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
|
posted 11-16-2011 04:46 AM
quote:
Originally posted by ApolloAlex:
...if you just purchased a matchbook for Wolfies Deli off eBay!
You coulda saved some money - there's one right here in Toms River, NJ.  |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
|
posted 11-16-2011 04:52 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Fezman92:
...if your college spring break plans are to visit FL or CA just to visit KSC or JPL. Or if you just use your spring break to visit any NASA or air and space center.
Never mind spring break. If I'm some place I try and look up beforehand which astronaut is in the area. A few years ago, when I went to see Jim Lovell at Penn State, I looked up another Jim - Jim Pawelczyk, whom I was fortunate enough to catch. Another time, another place, I also caught Al Sacco in another fortuitous encounter, shortly before he left for Texas. |
fredtrav
Member Posts: 1673
From: Birmingham AL
Registered: Aug 2010
|
posted 11-21-2011 09:26 AM
Since Fred (GACspaceguy) said this should go here, I will post it in this thread.You might be a space geek if... your cat bids and wins items for you in a space auction. I was bidding on several items in the recent Lunar Legacies auction and was following the action on the computer. An early wooden presentation model of the space shuttle came up for bid. My cat decided at that moment to walk across the keyboard and in so doing managed to place a bid on it. No one else bid on it so my cat won a model of the space shuttle. Now to get him to pay for it. |
james f. ruddy
Member Posts: 59
From: Rancho Mirage, CA
Registered: Nov 2008
|
posted 11-24-2011 04:21 PM
I have been a space junkie since 1951. I was 18 when I built a 6" reflecting, 75" focal length telescope to look at the craters on the Moon and photograph them.Now, sixty years later my license plate, ON MOON describes my space collection, NASA artifacts that were on the surface of the Moon. I have a website to show my collection. I guess I'm a Moon junkie.  |
Spaceguy5
Member Posts: 427
From: Pampa, TX, US
Registered: May 2011
|
posted 11-25-2011 12:54 PM
...if you prepare checklists (at the very least, mentally) and go through them to complete every-day tasks, all the while using the typical jargon. (Yes, I use the word "nominal" quite frequently as well)....if people can instantly tell you're working on an aerospace engineering degree by walking into your room and seeing the vast amount of pictures/posters/patches/flown hardware on display wallpapering your room. ...if you spent months of free time in college building a giant highly accurate 1-48 paper model of the International Space Station/space shuttle, which barely fit in your room. ...if you spent most of your summer building an even larger 1-24 paper model of the space shuttle, which barely fit on your bed. ...If you care more about hard science fiction, and have even spent hours going through NASA's tech report server looking up sources to made a high-fidelity CAD model of your own spacecraft for use in a hard sci fi series. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
|
posted 12-12-2011 11:06 AM
When I go to Israel this week, I plugged in the address of one of the places we are staying into a program that gave me the latitude and longitude then used those numbers with the Skywatch so I can show my group the ISS when it passes over. Going to add in a few more places we are staying at. |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
|
posted 12-12-2011 01:00 PM
quote:
Originally posted by james f. ruddy:
I guess I'm a Moon junkie.
Nice website and fantastic collection! |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 750
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
|
posted 12-12-2011 02:37 PM
quote:
Originally posted by p51:
Or how about you knew all the reasons that mission specialists don't get picked like this and the character never would be picked?
He was picked to be a payload specialist and we know only ISS crew members fly Soyuz not to mention he said he'd stay on the ISS for 10 days installing a device which of course couldn't fly on a Soyuz. It would have been much more logical if the writers had written this episode a couple years ago for a PS shuttle slot. One more point: Howard Wolowitz could never pass the physical training.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
|
posted 12-12-2011 03:46 PM
quote:
Originally posted by dogcrew5369:
...we know only ISS crew members fly Soyuz, not to mention he said he'd stay on the ISS for 10 days installing a device which of course couldn't fly on a Soyuz.
Spaceflight participants also fly on Soyuz, and some do take devices and/or experiments with them to install (e.g. Richard Garriott brought with him a protein crystal growth chamber). Spaceflight participants spend approximately 10 days on the station. |
james f. ruddy
Member Posts: 59
From: Rancho Mirage, CA
Registered: Nov 2008
|
posted 12-12-2011 07:21 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Gilbert:
Nice website and fantastic collection!
Gilbert, thank you for your kind comments. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
|
posted 12-12-2011 10:55 PM
quote:
Originally posted by dogcrew5369:
One more point: Howard Wolowitz could never pass the physical training.
Yeah, that was the key point on my earlier comment about him never being picked for the training. Besides the physical limitations, the man wouldn't pass any psychological test that would allow someone to go into space. The man can't spend more than a day or two away from his mother (and tries to force Bernadette into that mold, which she's slowly easing into it), there's no way he'd make the training all the way through, the mission is a given that he couldn't get that far. I find it odd they haven't brought it up lately and only mentioned it again once. I assume that might be the cliffhanger for this season? If the writers stick true to the character, he won't even get to the plane or will freak out at Houston or Star City once he realizes he'll have to do his own laundry. I know that Mike Mulane's book mentions one of the payload specialists on a shuttle mission really going a little bonkers while in orbit and that crew being worried what he'd do. I don't know who that was in reference to, but I'd assume that these days they weed out people who couldn't handle the mental stresses and a guy with issues like that character does would stand no chance of being allowed in space. I understand that one of the paid space tourists was turned down for this reason but again I have no names. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
|
posted 12-14-2011 12:09 AM
If... you vaguely remember a couple of episodes of the TV series NUMB3RS a few years back where one of the main characters briefly trained then flew on a shuttle mission. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
|
posted 12-14-2011 12:28 AM
The character on Numb3rs, Larry Fleinhardt (played by Peter MacNicol), was launched on the shuttle for a four month expedition aboard the International Space Station.In reality, the mission was a plot device to explain MacNicol's absence from the show while he filmed his role for the television series 24. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
|
posted 12-17-2011 05:12 PM
You don't really like the MA-1 jackets at the KSC gift shop so you set out to put one together with the patches you like. And in doing so, you realize you have all but one of the patches you want on it already in a box. So, with a $35 catch on eBay for the jacket and about $6 from the KSC gift shop for the 40th anniversary patch, you have a jacket that would cost around $140! |
mark plas
Member Posts: 385
From: the Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2000
|
posted 12-25-2011 04:29 AM
You walk down the street with your three year old daughter she sees the moon and says: "Look the moon, Gene Cernan walked on it." |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
|
posted 12-25-2011 05:24 AM
You plan to celebrate your 5000th post on collectSPACE.com |
Jim Behling
Member Posts: 1463
From: Cape Canaveral, FL
Registered: Mar 2010
|
posted 12-25-2011 07:44 AM
When you make a collage of yourself at work... |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
|
posted 12-26-2011 12:01 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Jim Behling:
When you make a collage of yourself at work...
Or it means you want to outdo Robert's 2011 collage photos.  Pretty impressive imagery there. Thanks for sharing them with us. |
AJ
Member Posts: 511
From: Plattsburgh, NY, United States
Registered: Feb 2009
|
posted 12-26-2011 10:48 AM
...your dad, who is amused and also a little baffled by your space love, happily gives you a model of Endeavour, having riffled through his tshirt drawer to find the STS-134 shirt you bought him in honor of the only launch you ever saw in person. Now that's a merry Christmas! |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
|
posted 12-26-2011 05:59 PM
You wife gives you 'that look' when she asks what your best Christmas present was, and you smile while saying it was that John Glenn sent your photo back signed and it arrived in Christmas Eve, so therefore, that was your best present... |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
|
posted 01-16-2012 06:57 PM
You are a space geek if you remember an instrumental song called "Skylab" from the early 70s. I remember it being played on WNEW-AM. |
carl walker
Member Posts: 360
From: Netherlands
Registered: Feb 2006
|
posted 01-18-2012 05:42 PM
If your wedding photo looks this:  |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
|
posted 01-18-2012 08:51 PM
When you look through the college physics book, go directly to the "astronomy/space physics" section then find out you know all of the information in the book. Also you have been doing most of these for about a year an a half. https://www.zooniverse.org/ |
Space Possum
New Member Posts:
From:
Registered:
|
posted 01-21-2012 09:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Fra Mauro:
You are a space geek if you remember an instrumental song called "Skylab" from the early 70s.
If you mean the song "Skylab Fragment" not only do I remember it... I have the promotional 45 record of it! |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
|
posted 02-24-2012 09:42 AM
...you watched last night's "Big Bang Theory" and took a good look at Howard's flight suit, amazed that they not only got the right suit, but also the mission specialist wings nameplate correct. Then, you rolled your eyes as you know they don't actually do survival training in the flight suits. |
jaycadence
Member Posts: 16
From: Calgary Alberta Canada
Registered: Apr 2012
|
posted 04-10-2012 09:16 PM
...your nickname at school is "the NASA Nerd."...you name your pet guinea pigs Neil and Buzz. ...when your brother is trying to convince you to go on a roller coaster and he says, "It'll just be like a NASA simulator!" and you say to yourself "A few bumps and we'll be hauling the mail!" |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
|
posted 04-11-2012 01:23 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Fra Mauro:
You are a space geek if you remember an instrumental song called "Skylab" from the early 70s. I remember it being played on WNEW-AM.
"Skylab" - heck!! I'm old enough to remember "Telstar" by the Tornadoes - and to have bought the record. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
|
posted 04-11-2012 05:24 AM
An astronaut showed a photo of an astronaut on the moon. He claimed it was Buzz Aldrin. I said no, half aloud.Not that I have fantastic vision and can read name tags on a photo projected on a screen from 20 feet away, but I knew it wasn't Aldrin because the astronaut had a red stripe on his suit - which wasn't used until Apollo 13. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
|
posted 04-11-2012 08:57 PM
...you realize that you are possibly stupid for all these years when you finally notice the area code for KSC is 321. 3...2...1. It took me a few years before I noticed it. |
Chariot412
Member Posts: 156
From: Lockport, NY, 14094
Registered: Jun 2011
|
posted 04-11-2012 09:45 PM
Your seventh grade homeroom teacher makes you sign an autograph because he thinks "maybe, just maybe...".You and your junior high buddy write to NASA for Command Module plans and spend your summer and allowances on toggle switches at radio shack for the Main Display Panel. Your nickname in high school is "Cosmic." |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
|
posted 04-12-2012 01:57 AM
When you start thinking of which NASA program you will write your Western Civ 1 term paper on without even knowing how far the class goes to and that it won't start until next September. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
|
posted 04-13-2012 09:54 AM
You might be a space geek if you try for two days to pull up drawing 1159CSMXXXX and cannot. When you ask your lead designer to try he says, "What the heck is a CSM drawing? We only have CMs in the system" sheepishly you walk away saying "CSM is Command Service Module, never mind." Here's your space geek sign. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
|
posted 04-13-2012 10:15 AM
The Powers That Be at work had a meeting to discuss story ideas. One of them was titled, "Yes I Am A Rocket Scientist," in part about the number of scientists who work in the NY-area but supposedly the number of scientists overall are on the decline. (I don't write the budget lines, I just do the story.)Anyway, TPTB wondered, "Who could do such a story?" And they all came back with one answer: "Hart." Hey, it meant I legitimately got to attend the Int'l Day of Human Spaceflight at the UN yesterday.... |
drifting to the right
Member Posts: 114
From: SW La.
Registered: Aug 2006
|
posted 04-14-2012 10:25 AM
Your dog is smart, impish, and named "Wally." I love that dog. |
Topic Closed
advertisement