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Topic: You might be a space geek
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mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 04-14-2012 11:36 PM
   
You record Apollo countdowns and launches from an old cassette onto a CD also containing favorite songs and listen to it in your vehicle to and from work. Apollo 10 has an especially good sub woofer friendly bass to it. |
Max Q
Member Posts: 399
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 04-15-2012 05:21 AM
You might be a Space geek if you think that CD could make the top 10 on the music charts. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-23-2012 07:58 PM
When your sociology professor says "Since NASA retied the shuttles they have shutdown." You immediately reply by talking about all of the probes but he cuts you off saying "This sounds like a Big Bang Theory episode." |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 04-23-2012 10:08 PM
If you think you're going to have a bad day at work, you decide to wear one of your mission shirts, knowing if THOSE guys could hop in a rocket and risk a horrific death, then no stupid meeting at the office could be anywhere near as bad, and then go through the day like you're wearing a suit of armor... |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-23-2012 11:29 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Fezman92:
When your sociology professor says "Since NASA retied the shuttles they have shutdown." You immediately reply by talking about all of the probes but he cuts you off saying "This sounds like a Big Bang Theory episode."
So, your professor makes a baldly false declaration, which most if not all of your classmates are unequipped and/or disinclined to challenge, and for doing so you're cut off with a cheap quip about a TV show? Sounds like you're getting your tuition's worth with that class. Mirrors most of my undergrad experience. On the lighter side, you might be a space geek if: Your current phone wallpaper is a hi-res shot of Atlantis from the ISS; on your work PC, it's Discovery and the SCA approaching Dulles (Thanks Glint!); and on your home computer it's Robert McCall's poster art for 2001: A Space Odyssey... ...And you change each of them roughly every other day.  |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-23-2012 11:46 PM
It is a community college, what do you expect? I am getting out next spring and I will, if all goes to plan, go to University of Arizona in Tuscon of an Astronomy degree with eventual plans of working for NASA (JPL or Goddard). |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-24-2012 12:22 AM
Good to hear. U of A's astronomy and planetary science programs are among the best in the world... but you know that or you wouldn't be going there.The scenery ain't bad, either.  |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 04-24-2012 06:57 AM
If model builders whom you've never corresponded with before email you for tips on how to build space shuttle models because they've seen your shuttle model work online (guilty as charged as I tend to average one new email about every four months). |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-24-2012 09:40 AM
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Originally posted by GoesTo11:
The scenery ain't bad, either.
When I get my Master's (eventually) I would like to get it at University of Hilo (Hawaii). Also you know you are a space geek when you are having issues trying to simply String Theory for your final English paper. |
Spacemac
Member Posts: 59
From: Schererville, Indiana, united states
Registered: May 2009
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posted 04-25-2012 12:31 PM
You must be a space geek if you keep ordering new space models even though you have run out of room to display any and have many yet to build because you want a model of each rocket. |
WAWalsh
Member Posts: 809
From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 04-27-2012 01:32 PM
... if your children can answer trivia questions.Daughter number 2 is off in India doing charity work and the volunteers apparently hold trivia challenge competitions (Robert may recall her as a 4th grader and her astonaut autograph collection appearing in Martha Stewart's magazine). She managed to win the champ of evening title when answering questions -- what vehicle would one use on the Sea of Tranquility and who ate the first hamburger in space (on this one, I actually suspect that the answer was wrong, but she received credit for John Young). |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 05-07-2012 10:18 PM
When you are trying to figure out what photo from your "NASA" folder you want as your Facebook Timeline photo. I am really tempted to go with the Apollo 8 Earthrise although some of the ISS/Shuttle and Hubble images are good as well. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 05-27-2012 04:46 PM
When you watch Airplane II and you spend most of the film trying to figure out where they put everything in the shuttle and how they were able to launch without pressure suits and the SRBs and ET. You also get depressed since the US does not have a firm stable plan to get back to the moon. |
Gonzo
Member Posts: 596
From: Lansing, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-28-2012 07:00 AM
...when you watch a film like "MIB3" and can pick out multiple errors about the stack, launch tower, the launch sequence and security, escape hardware issues, etc., etc., etc... |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 05-29-2012 09:14 AM
I remember when Wally Schirra passed away and a friend called me to offer her condolences. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 05-29-2012 04:20 PM
If you have a dream of being at the KSC visitor complex gift shop and finding the upper floor filled with flown objects, complete and partial space suits, signed stuff stacked everywhere, you're the first one in the place that morning and you recall you have a credit card which you know is good for anything you want...Then, you wake up and curse the feeling you're having by realizing it was only a dream. It happened to me the night before last and I'm still bummed out about it. |
englau
Member Posts: 110
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-29-2012 08:56 PM
That sounds like quite a bummer! I wish the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex was filled with signed stuff. That would be pretty neat, but perhaps would also deplete the value and demand for such items. In any case, a fun dream. I always dream that I'm interviewing astronauts and then wake up to realize I did not actually gain any knowledge or insight! |
mikepf
Member Posts: 441
From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-31-2012 11:25 PM
You might be a space geek if your wife hands you a giant tightly aluminum foil wrapped burrito and the first thing you think of is an Apollo quarantine trailer. |
Ronpur
Member Posts: 1211
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 06-28-2012 06:35 PM
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Originally posted by astro-nut:
When you name your pet "Apollo".
Oh, I did that because of Magnum PI. Had Zeus as well! |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 06-28-2012 07:58 PM
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Originally posted by Ronpur:
Oh, I did that because of Magnum PI. Had Zeus as well!
That only works if they are Dobermans.  |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-29-2012 08:12 AM
if... you're reaching for 5000 posts on collectSPACE.com. |
Max Q
Member Posts: 399
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 06-29-2012 08:54 AM
You might be a space geek if you visit this site every day before during and after you visit Facebook. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 08-17-2012 08:31 AM
When you become a tutor for your college and your business cards also say "will teach about space exploration if asked" even though there is no space exploration class at the college. |
englau
Member Posts: 110
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 01-11-2013 05:52 PM
...if you redo your room and your guests start referring to it as "the gallery." I'll take that as a compliment. ...if your Christmas presents this year consisted of 20 lithographs and a shuttle model kit. ...if you come home from college to see a huge 3ftx3ft posterboard of all the female astronauts displayed in the living room as a welcome home present. ...if your aunt sends you a Mercury astronaut GI Joe and you and your dad both fight over it. (Maybe that's why he's a space geek!) |
Gonzo
Member Posts: 596
From: Lansing, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 01-12-2013 06:40 AM
I see you've sdded a few patches to your collection..."Well done, Sulu. Nice job!" |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 01-12-2013 03:16 PM
You once argued with your middle school social studies teacher in class, who had no idea that the.best thing about being vice president is to be in charge of the space program... |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 01-12-2013 05:56 PM
After four years, you get your parents to let you apply for the NASA History internship for the summer. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 01-12-2013 11:01 PM
...you bring in flight suits, jacket and such to the patch sewing place at the local military base, they simply assume you work for some kind of NASA field office and say, "Hey, the NASA guy is back!" every time you show up for something new.
Happened today to me... |
Max Q
Member Posts: 399
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 01-14-2013 06:29 AM
If you think NASA should build a Death Star.
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MCroft04
Member Posts: 1634
From: Smithfield, Me, USA
Registered: Mar 2005
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posted 01-16-2013 09:19 PM
You call your wife immediately after flipping her car on its side on an icy road and say "Houston we have a problem" and she knows exactly what has happened. Don't worry, I wasn't hurt. But I definitely went into gimball lock! |
Lunar Module 5
Member Posts: 370
From: Wales, UK
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted 01-19-2013 05:09 AM
You are a space geek if you spend hours and hours listening to Apollo air-to-ground audio, splicing it into manageable chunks, listening back to it while videoing a space simulation of the Apollo spacecraft and "flying" the whole mission, then rendering and polishing it before posting it on YouTube so the whole world can enjoy the flight all over again ...when my wife asks whats a space geek? ...I hold my hand up and say "Pick Me! Pick Me!" |
moonguyron
Member Posts: 191
From: Trinity, FL USA
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 01-19-2013 07:12 PM
...if your Saturn V model is at least eight feet tall (1:48 scale). |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-16-2013 11:50 AM
When a friend of yours you only met and hung out with for about five days in Israel almost two years ago says he is coming to the US via Miami and is going to be in the US for three months and needs ideas of where to do your first place to list is the KSC, with visiting you in NJ as you second choice. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-17-2013 10:13 PM
Ah, but you'd be more of a space geek if you persuaded your friend to come through not into MIA but MCO.... |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-27-2013 08:22 AM
You are watching a National Geographic video in geography class and they are talking about Mars and you can name the probes, rovers, and landers. Also you can do the same with the astronauts shown in the other parts of the videos. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 04-27-2013 07:54 PM
If you mainly bought cars made by a company named SATURN during the past 20 years and had plates on one of them that looked like this.  The gate guards at the Cape always got a kick out of them and often remarked, "Nice tags!" |
james f. ruddy
Member Posts: 59
From: Rancho Mirage, CA
Registered: Nov 2008
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posted 04-30-2013 06:08 PM
On my 80th birthday I received two gifts that show that I'm still a space geek. My stepson, who is a graphic artist, gave me a framed photo showing my face and name tag on Buzz Aldrin's famous photo.My wife knew how happy I was to get my car's license plate that reads "ON MOON" and she gave me a license plate holder that reads "MY OTHER CAR IS ON THE MOON". She said whenever I showed my collection I always talked about the artifacts and maps that were on the rovers from the Apollo 16 and 17 missions and the schematics that were in the LM in case rover repair was needed on the moon. You can see these six artifacts on my website.  
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Kirsten
Member Posts: 536
From: Delft, Netherlands
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 08-17-2013 03:34 PM
... if someone tells you something (non space related) that they have read in a news magazine of some years ago, and you say: "That's pre-Peenemünde!" (actually meaning that this info may be obsolete by now ...) |
Spaceguy5
Member Posts: 427
From: Pampa, TX, US
Registered: May 2011
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posted 08-17-2013 11:26 PM
...When, as an engineering student doing a phone interview, you ask your NASA internship supervisor a question about a procedure on the International Space Station, and his first response is "How did you know that?!"...When your college roommate is a plastic mannequin who looks like this ...When you're endlessly asked if you work for NASA, because of your jacket. (Though, a few times I've also been asked if I work for Toys R Us, Sams Club, Wal Mart, and Jo-ann's Fabrics. I'm not sure how they made those connections) ...When you go to get breakfast at the diner by your airport's flight line, see two guys staring at you out the window, then walk in to find astronauts Eric Boe and Drew Feustel eating breakfast... and then the first thing they say to you is "Nice jacket." |
Lunar Module 5
Member Posts: 370
From: Wales, UK
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted 08-18-2013 03:32 PM
When you buy a new pair of sunglasses just because they have gold reflective lenses that look like they came from a spacesuit visor...! |
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