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Topic: You might be a space geek
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Kirsten
Member Posts: 536
From: Delft, Netherlands
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 03-21-2007 06:02 PM
   
You might be a space geek if you stare at a blank sheet of paper for a while and then finally conclude that it's lying upside down. |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-23-2007 09:01 AM
You might be a Space Geek if you time your 20 million dollar trip to the ISS so you arrive at the ISS when a female crew member is there mainly because it's the ONLY way you'd get to spend a week someplace with a woman. |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-23-2007 01:04 PM
You might be a space geek if you have a picture of your most prized artifact on your iPod, along with those of your kids... |
SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-26-2007 01:38 PM
This indvidual's home pegs the "obsessed with" meter. |
TRS
Member Posts: 721
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 03-26-2007 02:04 PM
You might be a space geek if...You don't live in the United States but...
You have more American flags on the wall than those of your own country
The clocks in your study are set to Houston and Florida time and...
The most important part of the news is the currency markets... |
BobbyA
Member Posts: 147
From: Northern Virginia
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 03-26-2007 02:18 PM
You might be a space geek if...Every time you watch a fictional TV show or movie about space travel you have to point out all of the inaccuracies to whomever is watching with you. Whenever you get the opportunity to go to the NASM with someone that has never been, you get more excited than a kid on Christmas morning. |
collocation
Member Posts: 383
From: McLean, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2004
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posted 03-26-2007 07:18 PM
You might be a space geek if you daughters know who was the third person on the moon |
Mary13
Member Posts: 24
From: Vienna, Austria, Europe
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-27-2007 10:17 AM
You might be a space geek if you have watched the movie Apollo 13 10 times, the making of 3 times, have read the book by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger and Failure Is Not An Option by Gene Kranz (or a similar book) and are still looking for more stuff on Apollo 13. |
micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 03-27-2007 02:23 PM
Similar to what Mary just wrote - If as a kid you saw "2001" ten times, read the book ten times, read "The Making of...", read "Lost Worlds of 2001", and then started all over again with "2010"... |
Lunar rock nut
Member Posts: 911
From: Oklahoma city, Oklahoma U.S.A.
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 03-27-2007 02:50 PM
You might be one if you find yourself compelled to keep this thread going and going and going... |
mdmyer
Member Posts: 900
From: Humboldt KS USA
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 12:17 AM
You are standing inside of a cement storage silo that is 110 feet tall and 33 feet in diameter and you think to yourself, this is almost the same size as the SkyLab. |
Gilbert
Member Posts: 1328
From: Carrollton, GA USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 08:14 AM
quote:
Originally posted by micropooz:
Similar to what Mary just wrote - If as a kid you saw "2001" ten times, read the book ten times, read "The Making of...", read "Lost Worlds of 2001", and then started all over again with "2010"...
Ditto, and used 2001 for license plates, had a 2001 viewing party on the night of Dec. 31, 2000 (where everyone but me fell asleep), had an Apollo 11 20th, 25th and 30th anniversary party where everyone but me fell asleep... |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 03-28-2007 11:48 AM
You might be a space geek if you've ever given a presentation on spaceflight to your kid's kindergarten class, and you already had enough NASA stickers to give to everyone in the class... and then some.You might be a space geek if you can interview any race car driver alive without giving it a second thought because that's your job, but you absolutely fell to pieces the first time you interviewed a moonwalker. |
Mary13
Member Posts: 24
From: Vienna, Austria, Europe
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-28-2007 03:48 PM
You might be a space geek if you should do a presentation of 2-5 minutes about any topic in English at school and you choose something about the Apollo programme and talk for more than 20 minutes. |
Prospero
Member Posts: 94
From: Manchester, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-28-2007 04:43 PM
How did you manage to get the time down to 20 minutes?
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micropooz
Member Posts: 1512
From: Washington, DC, USA
Registered: Apr 2003
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posted 03-28-2007 06:18 PM
You know you are a space geek when your wife calls all of your space books and magazines "space porn". |
BMckay
Member Posts: 3218
From: MA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 03-28-2007 07:24 PM
Geek: if you just watched the Six Million Dollar man episode "Athena 1" and picked out what was wrong, what patches they were wearing and what flight video that they spliced in.Trivia Contest- Who was the first women in space according to that show? |
Mary13
Member Posts: 24
From: Vienna, Austria, Europe
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-29-2007 07:36 AM
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Originally posted by Prospero:
How did you manage to get the time down to 20 minutes?
Well, I would have talked longer, but we had three presentations before me in the same lesson and also did some other things... and 20 minutes after I started, the lesson was over. |
MarylandSpace
Member Posts: 1336
From:
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 03-29-2007 09:40 AM
You check Heavens Above on a regular basis for sighting opportunities to see the ISS even though you have seen it over 100 times.Each time I see the ISS I am in awe. |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 03-29-2007 11:37 AM
How about a lucky space geek who has a girlfriend that is just as screwed up?
She came over to visit once, and saw my 1/96 Saturn V hanging above my couch in the living room. She hasn't left since! :) |
Mary13
Member Posts: 24
From: Vienna, Austria, Europe
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-29-2007 11:39 AM
...if you stay up until 3 a.m. to watch a rocket launch at NASA-TV or another webcast despite you'll have to get up at 6 a.m. and you still haven't finished your homework. |
E2M Lem Man
Member Posts: 846
From: Los Angeles CA. USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 03-29-2007 07:33 PM
You might just be a space geek if... you are upset that you never got the Apollo operations crew manual - BLOCK 1 EDITION!You might just be a space geek if you are driving down the road looking into the car with the NASA stickers, AND YOU KNOW THE DRIVER! (or wonder who or where the driver is and works) You might just be a space geek if you have made your own spacesuit mockup - TO GO WITH THE LRV YOU MADE! I am such a geek! |
Jim
Member Posts: 73
From: San Antonio TX
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 03-29-2007 08:23 PM
If your 4 year old grandson hears someone count 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5... and he finishes by saying "4, 3, 2, 1, 0 liftoff. We have liftoff..."My grandson did this the other day. |
ea757grrl
Member Posts: 729
From: South Carolina
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 03-29-2007 10:07 PM
Or when you have passengers in your car and you instruct them, "Close and lock your visors. Initiate 02 flow."  |
Mary13
Member Posts: 24
From: Vienna, Austria, Europe
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 03-30-2007 02:29 PM
...if you tell your classmates that the picture of a space shuttle launch in your physics book was taken in 1981 because the tank is covered with white latex insulation....or if you wonder if the rocket that launched in the film you saw in science at school is an Ariane 4 or an earlier Ariane version. I did it every time we watched the film and we watched it two or three times. (It's a pity that the scene of the launch in that film is only 10 sec or so long.) |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-30-2007 02:42 PM
If your hotel of choice in Florida calls you when there is a shuttle launch delay to notify you that they have already changed your reservation to reflect the new dates (as they know you'll be coming regardless of when it launches), you might just be a space geek... |
DavidH
Member Posts: 1217
From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 04-02-2007 01:12 PM
...if your loved ones have souvenir t-shirts from at least four different NASA centers... |
MarylandSpace
Member Posts: 1336
From:
Registered: Aug 2002
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posted 04-03-2007 09:46 AM
You might be a space geek if... Twice you have driven 1,000+ miles each way for a "long weekend" to attend the AHOF induction. My co-workers and students would ask me, "Where were you Thursday and Friday?" and they would be in shock and/or disbelief when I told them I drove to Florida for the weekend. Meeting the space pioneers and making friendships with cS members made it more than worthwhile. |
Prospero
Member Posts: 94
From: Manchester, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 05-15-2007 07:37 AM
If you're seriously thinking of driving 200-odd miles to one of those horrible commercial autograph-signing events just to meet Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell, are you in serious danger of tipping over the edge into full-blown geekdom? |
86horn
Member Posts: 73
From: College Station, Texas
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted 05-18-2007 09:47 AM
...if you are planning a trip to England and want to go up to the Space Centre and your kids who are going with you say "dad, we have been to the smithsonian, and you have been to 7 centers. Do we have to?" ...ingrates |
Naraht
Member Posts: 232
From: Oxford, UK
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 05-18-2007 02:55 PM
If you once wrote a filk song about the Apollo Guidance Computer.
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mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 05-18-2007 03:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Prospero:
If you're seriously thinking of driving 200-odd miles to one of those horrible commercial autograph-signing events just to meet Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell, are you in serious danger of tipping over the edge into full-blown geekdom?
Naw, 500 miles (one way) is the bare minimum for that distinction!  |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 05-18-2007 05:42 PM
...you have a cat named Apollo and another one named Meridiani. |
ApolloAlex
Member Posts: 390
From: Yeovil, England
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 06-12-2007 05:15 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Prospero:
If you're seriously thinking of driving 200-odd miles to one of those horrible commercial autograph-signing events just to meet Buzz Aldrin and Edgar Mitchell, are you in serious danger of tipping over the edge into full-blown geekdom?
Well I've done that 7 times, guess that makes me officially a geek.  |
bigcrash3
Member Posts: 36
From: Summerfield, NC, USA
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 06-12-2007 04:05 PM
Oh my god, I drove 600 miles to the show last weekend (my first) ...and I had a GREAT TIME. I'll take the geek label, I've been called worse. |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 06-12-2007 04:54 PM
I flew about 3,000 miles with a stop in Chicago to get there for that. On the way home I stopped in Memphis, Denver, then finally home to Seattle. I think the guys from the UK got home before I did! My girlfriend was volunteering at a space gala here in Seattle (Neil was there) while I was at the banquet at KSC. At least she didn't have to feel she was missing out! |
Kirsten
Member Posts: 536
From: Delft, Netherlands
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 07-22-2007 08:30 AM
...you refer to your wastebasket as "File Eleven". |
Frewi80
Member Posts: 120
From: Hawaii. Waipahu
Registered: Jun 2006
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posted 07-24-2007 02:33 AM
...when you apply at the European Space Agency to join the Mars 500 program (500 + days in an isolated space in Antarctica) and that you're already over 50+ years old and not even citizen of the ESA member states! (these are the main requirements, max 50 years old and ESA member!)I did! And got a nice answer from ESA. |
NavySpaceFan
Member Posts: 655
From: Norfolk, VA
Registered: May 2007
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posted 07-24-2007 12:32 PM
You name a cat "MECO," cover your work cubicle with mission patches, proudly display your pics with astronauts, and keep a stone from the Crawler/Transporter track on your desk. |
Moonwalker1954
Member Posts: 245
From: Montreal, Canada
Registered: Jul 2004
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posted 07-24-2007 06:42 PM
Every weeknight you try to go to bed at 10:56... |
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