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Topic: You might be a space geek
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Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 08-19-2013 11:24 AM
   
If you walk around in an Apollo 10 T-shirt. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 08-19-2013 12:33 PM
...You have fended off a frisky significant other because you know the ISS is supposed to pass overhead in a few minutes and it's clear outside to see it.
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Originally posted by Spaceguy5:
...When you're endlessly asked if you work for NASA, because of your jacket.
Boy, if I had a nickel for every time that's happened to me... quote:
Originally posted by Spaceguy5:
...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."
Had the same thing happen with Tom Jones a while back, and half the crew of the Super Guppy asked where I'd gotten mine. Nice feeling, huh?Nice 'Roomate' by the way! |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-19-2013 03:33 PM
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Originally posted by james f. ruddy:
On my 80th birthday I received two gifts that show that I'm still a space geek.
James - Congratulations on your 80th birthday. I did a similar composite image for myself but not on the famous Aldrin visor shot. |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 08-19-2013 03:46 PM
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Originally posted by garymilgrom:
I did a similar composite image for myself but not on the famous Aldrin visor shot.
Wow, great shot, which photo was that originally? I'd love to do something like that myself and it looks like you had a great shot to start with... |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 12-31-2013 11:36 PM
...You just put off hanging out with your friends by about a half hour on New Years' Eve to make sure you got the Lego Curiosity rover. Twice. |
Shuttle Endeavour
Member Posts: 234
From: Freehold, NJ, USA
Registered: Aug 2013
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posted 01-01-2014 04:21 PM
You are 13 years old and your parents are confused what exactly they bought you for Christmas. It was a bunch of Space Shuttle flown components, a Gemini 5 flown checklist page, and a Solid Rocket Booster Circuit Board.When you walk into Language Arts class and are delighted to see there are laptops in the classroom on MAVEN launch day. When you ask if the class will be on the computers at a certain time, your teacher asks what is going off or launching. Then your teacher allows you to watch the launch on NASA TV. When you are able to name every crew from Alan Shepard's MR-3 flight to Apollo 17. When you are in Spanish class, and they show a picture of a rocket, they ask what it is, and you raise your hand and say it is a Atlas Agena Target Vehicle in the 1960s for Project Gemini. When it haunts you where on the left wing your STS-55 flown Inconel was located. The RCC panels or the elevons.
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buckky
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posted 01-18-2014 04:47 AM
...you wear nomex to walk the dogs. |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 01-18-2014 05:40 AM
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Originally posted by Shuttle Endeavour:
When you are in Spanish class, and they show a picture of a rocket, they ask what it is, and you raise your hand and say it is a Atlas Agena Target Vehicle in the 1960s for Project Gemini.
"Se trata de un vehículo objetivo Atlas Agena en la década de 1960 para el Proyecto Géminis." |
stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 01-19-2014 10:34 PM
... if you are able to spot several inaccuracies in this Apollo lunar landing display at a miniature golf course in Ocean City, MD:  ...if the space geek acorn didn't fall far from the space geek tree, so when your son's kindergarten class parades around the school on Halloween and goes through your sixth-grade classroom, you are able to take this picture:  ...the aforementioned son has the Justice League on one side of his door (wait for it)...  ...and a Michael Collins original watercolor on the other side.  (Sorry about the flash. The one reflecting off the painting's glass, that is, not the one on the other side of his door. Ha!) |
ebrook
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posted 01-29-2014 10:34 AM
You might be a space geek if you eat popcorn while watching the stars |
Dave Clow
Member Posts: 236
From: South Pasadena, CA 91030
Registered: Nov 2003
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posted 01-31-2014 12:08 PM
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Originally posted by ebrook:
You might be a space geek if you eat popcorn while watching the stars
That one reminded me of attending a screening of "Apollo 13" at ASF and seeing Jerry Bostick doing precisely that. |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 750
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 03-17-2014 11:29 PM
You might be a space geek if you go to DC with your wife and 400 out of 500 of your photos are from the two Air and Space museums. |
Gonzo
Member Posts: 596
From: Lansing, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 03-18-2014 09:51 AM
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Originally posted by dogcrew5369:
You might be a space geek if you go to DC with your wife and 400 out of 500 of your photos are from the two Air and Space museums.
Would going to DC for business for a week and the highlight of the trip is getting to arrange time to visit both Udvar-Hazy (right after Discovery was installed) AND Goddard SFC? And then talking the nice guys in the gift shop to show you the "stuff in back" that isn't on display for sale yet? (Yes, it was an expensive trip to THAT gift shop!) 
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sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 03-21-2014 02:58 PM
...if you love making spicy shrimp cocktails and insist on eating them out of ziplock baggies. |
garymilgrom
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 08-20-2014 07:18 AM
You live alone without an excess of household goods and one night the only fork left for dinner looks like this: |
David Carey
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posted 09-27-2014 01:31 PM
... if your first reaction to a root-clogged drain line is to channel Jack Swigert and post "NO" notes around the house to prevent water use until the plumber has "worked the problem".  |
Peter downunder
Member Posts: 57
From: Lancefield, Victoria, Australia
Registered: Apr 2012
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posted 09-28-2014 10:21 AM
Not as good as many of the other submissions, but my son and I are currently touring Europe (on a shoestring). We were hiking the Bavarian Alps when we got a little lost looking for a particular summit... I suggested that we 'consider we have got to the edge of Cone Crater right here'... before we turned for home. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 11-22-2014 01:37 AM
Was watching the 007 film "From Russia With Love", (1963), for the umpteenth time and still waited for the scene where Bond goes into the Soviet Embassy in Istanbul. He is talking to the desk clerk when the camera pans left and up on a bare wall is a large, about 20" X 24", portrait of Yuri Gagarin. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1586
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 12-05-2014 08:07 PM
I wore a NASA tie the day of the first launch attempt for EFT-1 and a NASA pin on my dress shirt today. |
Chuckster01
Member Posts: 873
From: Orlando, FL
Registered: Jan 2014
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posted 12-27-2014 06:26 PM
You might be a Space Geek IFYou read all the posts in this thread and realize "WE ARE NOT ALONE." |
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