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Topic: You might be a space geek
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Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-16-2007 12:37 PM
   
You might be a space geek if...Your kids learned how to count backward (10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0... BLASTOFF!) before they could count forward. Let's see how many other "You might be a space geek if..." stories we can brainstorm! |
Madon_space
Member Posts: 667
From: uk
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 03-16-2007 01:50 PM
Maybe I shouldn't admit this but I had a dream about John Young last night that he had come round to my house and was checking out my space collection.I am going to be a first time dad in about four weeks time so at least thought that I would have dreams or nightmares about that instead and certainly not an astronaut. He did complete my moonwalker autographs in my dream, so not all is bad.  Am I a space geek, Ermmmmmmmmmmm! |
413 is in
Member Posts: 628
From: Alexandria, VA USA
Registered: May 2006
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posted 03-16-2007 01:50 PM
You might be a space geek if you can spot an autopen at thirty yards but can't read your own hand writing. |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-16-2007 02:22 PM
You might be a space geek if your e-mail address starts with apollo18cdr... |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 03-16-2007 02:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Madon_space:
Maybe I shouldn't admit this but I had a dream about John Young last night...
Hey, as long as the turtleneck stayed on in your dream, it's okay to admit it.  |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 03-16-2007 02:50 PM
If MOST of your passwords are dates/times of space events or words related to various space themes... |
clifford
Member Posts: 233
From: Maplewood, nj, 07040
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 03-16-2007 03:16 PM
You might be a space geek if your 9 year old daughter knows who Armstrong and Aldrin are but not who Nixon, Clinton or Bush are. |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 03-16-2007 03:35 PM
You might be a space geek if you not only adorn the outside of your car, but the inside also (like I have done)! |
star61
Member Posts: 294
From: Bristol UK
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-16-2007 04:17 PM
...if every night you dream of walking on the Moon ...if your mother said you came to Earth in a rocket, because you were in such a hurry to be born ...if 40 years later you still have your first space book ...and yes, both my kids could count backward first and know who Gagarin and Armstrong are... |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 03-16-2007 05:45 PM
...you made a bet with your best buddy in 7th grade that you would be the first man on Mars! I paid it off a long time ago...  |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-16-2007 06:10 PM
You might NOT be a space geek if you had to ask what 2TV-1 meant... and I did. Oooops!!! |
dss65
Member Posts: 1156
From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 03-16-2007 08:53 PM
...when your wife steps away from her walker a week or two after hip replacement surgery, you exclaim, "Wait! You just walked away from your LEM!" And she knows what you mean. |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-16-2007 10:55 PM
You might be a space geek if - you find yourself picking at facial anomolies or checking for that alfalfa clump of hair using your reflection from the glass on your presentaions instead of the mirror in the bathroom... |
Kirsten
Member Posts: 536
From: Delft, Netherlands
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-17-2007 03:19 PM
You might be a space geek if, instead of simply answering a question with "Yes", you say: "YBYSA!" |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-17-2007 05:07 PM
You might be a space geek if you've ever covered the logo of a former employer on your jacket with a mission patch... You might be a space geek if you've ever told Jim Lovell he owes you money because your last name is Houston, and his "Houston, we've had a problem" line has caused you all kinds of grief... |
kyra
Member Posts: 583
From: Louisville CO US
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-18-2007 12:55 PM
You might be a space geek if:Your day timer looks like a space flown checklist complete with velcro... You use the word "nominal" the NASA way, as in "nominal performance of the air conditioner"...Stops non-space geeks dead in their tracks. You can use "delta" as in any "deltas to the plan". Youv'e got shuttle launch pics on the fridge. And the one that got me into trouble with friends - the jar on the counter with premixed instant coffee, sugar, and creamer "Why?" They ask. |
413 is in
Member Posts: 628
From: Alexandria, VA USA
Registered: May 2006
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posted 03-18-2007 01:05 PM
You might be a space geek if when your wife asks the question "Are you listening to me?" your reply is "Copy. Read you 5 x 5. How me?" |
collocation
Member Posts: 383
From: McLean, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 03-18-2007 05:26 PM
You may be a space geek if you log on to collectSPACE more than 5 times a day... |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-18-2007 05:37 PM
Uh-Oh... |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-18-2007 05:41 PM
quote:
Originally posted by collocation:
You may be a space geek if you log on to collectSPACE more than 5 times a day...
GUILTY!!!You might also be a space geek if you've ever been on an airplane during pretty severe turbulence and thought to yourself, "If Pete, Dick and Al can survive getting struck by lightning, I can get through this..." Again... GUILTY!!! |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 03-18-2007 09:43 PM
You might be a space geek if you've been asked, "Oh, is your mom an astronaut?" because, to inspire you and keep you on an even keel as one of the few women in a leadership role at work, you have a small picture of Eileen Collins next to your computer monitor with the caption, "What would 'Mom' do?"Or if you've come across some kind of jargon in your field of specialization, and said out loud some variation of Al Bean's "Yep, that's astronaut talk. I gotta learn that." |
WAWalsh
Member Posts: 809
From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 03-19-2007 08:24 AM
Your kids yell MECO when you turn off the car engine (two also announced that we had cleared the tower during the Mission: Space ride at EPCOT). |
collocation
Member Posts: 383
From: McLean, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 03-19-2007 06:21 PM
You might be a space geek if your kids know the third man on the moon... |
Jay Gallentine
Member Posts: 287
From: Shorewood, MN, USA
Registered: Sep 2004
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posted 03-19-2007 08:23 PM
You might be a space geek if... as a pre-teen you built a spacecraft in the basement out of old furniture and electronic parts, wrote a flight plan for it, drafted blueprints for it (or some reasonable facsimile), made a PRESS KIT for the ship... then buttoned yourself inside on a weekend mission where all you heard were the imagined responses from Houston in your headset, occasionally blended with Mom going, "Oh Lordy, what is he up to now?!"I might wish I was kidding, but I have the feeling I'm in good company on this one.
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GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 03-19-2007 09:01 PM
You know you are a space geek when your living room looks like this: And your bathroom looks like this  |
413 is in
Member Posts: 628
From: Alexandria, VA USA
Registered: May 2006
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posted 03-19-2007 09:27 PM
Is that NASA toilet government issue or a repro?
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GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 03-20-2007 04:04 AM
All I know is that I went away for 4 days, came back and my wife had taken all of the old cabnets, wall paper, flooring etc out of the old bathroom and put the one shown in its place. I think she had it done via an artist she found on line. |
star61
Member Posts: 294
From: Bristol UK
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-20-2007 05:15 AM
Hate to ask GAC, but where does your Urine dumps end up! |
astronaut23
Member Posts: 12
From:
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-20-2007 07:24 AM
Man thats one heck of a collection. I don't have much of anything. Just a few books, movies, and what I got on my computer. I don't have much in the ways of models or mission patches. I don't want to get started either. Probably a good way to blow a lot of cash if I did. |
music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 03-20-2007 09:18 AM
GACspaceguy, we need to see what's in the curio... |
Saturn V
Member Posts: 176
From: Golden, Colorado, USA
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted 03-20-2007 02:36 PM
You might be a space geek if...You make DVDs about rockets, Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions and sell them to other space geeks... just kidding Mark! You might be a space geek if you buy the whole collection of these DVDs from Spacecraft Films and pre-order them before they come out, like I do. |
cddfspace
Member Posts: 609
From: Morris County, NJ, USA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 03-20-2007 07:09 PM
You might be a space geek if... you read this whole thread with interest and nod and smile often! |
John K. Rochester
Member Posts: 1292
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 03-20-2007 08:41 PM
If you've got a Lunar Module up on cinder blocks in your front yard... you just might be a space geek.If instead of "Git er Done" you say " Git er Launched" ...you just might be a space geek. If you do speed reducing S turns before pulling your "Re-Entry Vehicle" into your driveway... you just might be a space geek. |
Joe Frasketi
Member Posts: 191
From: Florida USA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 03-20-2007 09:30 PM
you might be a space geek if you know most of the space questions on jeopardy and dont know beans about the other subjects.(I say, if so, you ARE a space geek!) |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-21-2007 08:13 AM
You might be a Space Geek if your dining room is configured like this guy's. |
Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 03-21-2007 12:26 PM
You might be a Space Geek if the "We Choose To Go To The Moon" Kennedy speech is heard in your house at least once a week (once a day?).It also won't hurt to know the next line after Jim Lovell said "Houston, we've had a problem."! |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-21-2007 04:48 PM
That would be: "Main B bus undervolt..." |
Prospero
Member Posts: 94
From: Manchester, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-21-2007 05:13 PM
quote:
Originally posted by clifford:
You might be a space geek if your 9 year old daughter knows who Armstrong and Aldrin are but not who Nixon, Clinton or Bush are.
Nixon, Clinton and Bush? Sorry, I'm not familiar with this particular crew - were they backups who never flew? |
Prospero
Member Posts: 94
From: Manchester, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-21-2007 05:28 PM
If you like to refer to your beaten up old Ford Fiesta as the Command Module...If you've done unpaid volunteer work at the local rocket factory... If you still own the early Seventies PG Tips "Race into Space" card album that your parents got you when you were a kid... If you refer to punching someone on the chin as "giving them the Buzz Aldrin treatment"... If you've got key dates in space history memorised but need reminding of family birthdays... And if, while looking at an attractive member of the opposite sex, you find yourself wanting to attempt a "redezvous and docking"... It's just possible that less enlightened types might think of you as a space geek.
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FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 03-21-2007 05:31 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Prospero:
If you still own the early Seventies PG Tips "Race into Space" card album that your parents got you when you were a kid...
Guilty! Or perhaps it's just a Mancunian thing... |
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