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Topic: You might be a space geek
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tegwilym
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From: Renton, WA USA
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posted 12-25-2007 02:14 AM
   
You might be a space geek if...- You see a light crossing the sky at night and you just know that is the ISS. Point it out to someone "Hey, there goes the space station!" They look at you funny. I got off the bus from work the other night looked up and saw it passing near the moon. - You know that the Mars rovers are still roving. - You Google your name and find more 6 pages on you... all related to space, astronomy, and aviation (fortunately nothing bad or embarrassing). - You read collectSPACE every day...  |
Max Q
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From: Whyalla South Australia
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posted 12-25-2007 04:33 AM
You know you might be a Space Geek when its 9.PM at night on Christmas day, you've had a perfect day with your family and you have to login to cS and wish everyone a Merry Christmas...Hope you all have a great day. |
Mary13
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posted 12-25-2007 04:25 PM
...if you take the German expression "jemanden auf den Mond schiessen"- that means literally "to shoot somebody to the moon" but is used if somebody is getting on your nerves or if you are very angry on someone - too literally.Once that happened to me at school. Our physics teacher, who was new at school (and he didn't seem to be the ideal teacher), said to one of my classmates "If you don't know the answer of that simple question I'll shoot you to the moon." But he didn't know me good enough because I interrupted him and asked if he would do that with everyone of us. He replied "Yes, of course" Then I grinned and said: "Well, then I won't answer any of your questions!" (I'm very good at school, especially in Math and Physics so I can afford to be cheeky to some teachers) |
mikepf
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From: San Jose, California, USA
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posted 12-26-2007 11:35 PM
Still getting a tingle down my spine every Christmas Eve, remembering hearing the Apollo 8 broadcast. It had a profound effect on this 11-year old. |
kking
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From: Topmost, Ky. USA
Registered: Nov 2002
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posted 12-26-2007 11:58 PM
You're a space geek when every Christmas Eve as part of family tradition at 9:30PM we watch the Apollo 8 Christmas broadcast. |
ftrastronaut
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posted 12-27-2007 08:55 AM
You might be a space geek if you and your friends have a "mission" to meet Eileen Collins. We even have a folder with all of our Eileen Collins stuff in it. We are bound and determined to meet her. I'm the one that really wants to meet her, but all of them are trying their hardest to help me. With all of the work we have put into it, I'm pretty sure all of them want to meet her to! |
Mary13
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posted 12-27-2007 02:39 PM
You might be a space geek if... you know the birth dates of at least 10 or 20 astro- and cosmonauts by heart but find it difficult to remember the birthdays of your best friends. |
Safecoat
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posted 12-28-2007 04:48 AM
If you have a TV in your home office that's always tuned in on the NASA TV channel? |
Max Q
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From: Whyalla South Australia
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posted 12-28-2007 08:18 PM
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Originally posted by Safecoat:
If you have a TV in your home office that's always tuned in on the NASA TV channel?
Off topic I know, but you guys that have a NASA TV Channel, cool. Is that free to air or pay per view?
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 12-28-2007 08:27 PM
NASA TV can be received via satellite, certain cable companies and on the web. To learn how, see NASA's website. |
ApolloAlex
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From: Bromsgrove, England
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 01-07-2008 11:35 AM
You might be a space geek if you spend a week in Merritt Island and visit the KSC 3 times much to the disgust of my family. |
tegwilym
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From: Renton, WA USA
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posted 01-07-2008 11:57 AM
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Originally posted by ApolloAlex:
You might be a space geek if you spend a week in Merritt Island and visit the KSC 3 times much to the disgust of my family.
...the reason that 2 out of 3 times I've been there I've gone alone!  |
NavySpaceFan
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From: Norfolk, VA
Registered: May 2007
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posted 02-06-2008 04:25 PM
Driving with my wife and a friend, the "low fuel" light came on, and I yelled "Quantity light, 60 seconds to go/no go!!!" |
WSTFphoto
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posted 02-06-2008 07:58 PM
I love this thread. |
sts205cdr
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From: Sacramento, CA
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posted 02-08-2008 01:34 PM
You might be a space geek if two or more co-workers crowd around YOUR computer to watch the launch on NASA TV. |
clifford
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From: Maplewood, nj, 07040
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posted 02-08-2008 07:47 PM
You might be a space geek, if at your 10 year old daughter's birthday party you step up to the birthday cake with a lit match and say "why don't you fix your little problem, and light this candle" and then do so. I did, and her friends looked at me like I was from Mars. (Maybe I am!)ord. |
Kirsten
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From: Delft, Netherlands
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 02-09-2008 04:03 PM
...if you find on the envelope of mail from your health insurance (!) your handwritten remark: "18.24 h Docking".  |
moonrock collector
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posted 02-10-2008 02:02 PM
You are still using Apollo-Soyuz stamps (1975) on your mail, although the only place to get them now is on E-Bay. |
ASCAN1984
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From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
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posted 02-10-2008 04:16 PM
When every holiday you go on you treat as a space mission and every time you take off in a flight it's 3, 2, 1 and liftoff of Gareth's trip to Orlando and the vehicle has cleared the tower. |
ApolloAlex
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From: Bromsgrove, England
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 02-10-2008 07:34 PM
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Originally posted by ASCAN1984:
When every holiday you go on you treat as a space mission and every time you take off in a flight it's 3, 2, 1 and liftoff of Gareth's trip to Orlando and the vehicle has cleared the tower.
Or to quote Buzz Aldrin "We are number one on the runway" or when the aircraft comes to a standstill I cant help but say "We are at Stable 1" and yes I've had some very strange looks from my children but I think my daughter is starting to understand her crazy old man. |
GACspaceguy
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From: Guyton, GA
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posted 02-13-2008 12:19 PM
You may be a Space Geek (and marrying one) if your bride to be has the wedding cake look like this: 
And your ring bearer is this:  
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LCDR Scott Schneeweis
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posted 02-13-2008 03:12 PM
I think you (and your bride) just won - hands down Fred; the Geek meter is pegged!!!! |
Atlantis
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From: Cullman, AL
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posted 02-13-2008 10:24 PM
In elementary school, while the other kids were reading the "Kids" books in the AR section of the elementary school library, my favorite book from the school library was A History of Rockets and Space Travel by Werner von Braun and Frederick Ordway III. |
tegwilym
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From: Renton, WA USA
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posted 02-15-2008 12:17 PM
...your girlfriend gives you a Code 3 (the reissued version) Freedom 7 Mercury spacecraft model for Valentines day.She's space geek also, so I do admire that shuttle cake! |
uk spacefan
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From: London
Registered: Jan 2007
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posted 02-29-2008 04:04 PM
...if you regularly click on the space auction websites (Heritage, R&R, Novaspace, etc.) to see what's on sale and then open links to items and also the accompanying photos - well one has to check!!Just visited the Heritage website - if only I could afford some the of stuff that's up for auction... |
Cliff Lentz
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From: Philadelphia, PA USA
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posted 03-04-2008 10:23 AM
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Originally posted by GACspaceguy:
You may be a Space Geek (and marrying one) if your bride to be has the wedding cake look like this
That's great! I noticed both figures on the cake are commanders, hence the red stripes. I guess details will be worked out later! |
GACspaceguy
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posted 03-04-2008 05:48 PM
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Originally posted by Cliff Lentz:
That's great! I noticed both figures on the cake are commanders, hence the red stripes. I guess details will be worked out later!
Yes, that was done purposely. They are both shown as equals indicating a partnership with neither person dominating the other. |
dss65
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From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
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posted 03-04-2008 09:08 PM
I also have to concede that YOU WIN. Ooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh. I feel SO ungeeky now.Congratulations!!!!!! |
Wings4Flight
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posted 03-05-2008 11:26 AM
Fred, I love the cake topper. I was wondering if I could borrow it for my wedding in January. LOL, no doubt you WIN! |
NavySpaceFan
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From: Norfolk, VA
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posted 03-13-2008 04:58 PM
Finally got an office to myself at work, and now I can proudly display my geekiness!!! Over my door (MOCR style!)  My front wall.  My desk.  My back wall (nautical vice space related, I am in the Navy afterall). |
DKS22
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posted 03-14-2008 03:48 AM
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Originally posted by MCroft04:
You're a space geek; If you drive around the area surrounding JSC looking for the old homes of the astronauts, and taking pictures of them.
Looking for the old homes of astronauts... Try El Lago, on Bayou View the Bormans, Youngs, Eiseles and Staffords lived, around the corner were the Whites and Armstrongs. Across Taylor Lake in Timber Cover were the Lovells, Grissoms, Schirras and Glenns. The third group lived mostly in the back of El Lago and Nassau Bay. After that you are on your own. |
Atlantis
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posted 03-14-2008 04:30 PM
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Originally posted by Mary13:
You might be a space geek if...
...you know the birth dates of at least 10 or 20 astro- and cosmonauts by heart but find it difficult to remember the birthdays of your best friends.
I found out recently that I share a birthday with John Glenn. |
Philip
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posted 04-28-2008 10:53 AM
Pass 3300 posts on collectSPACE.com |
robsouth
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posted 04-28-2008 06:31 PM
If you have more books on spaceflight than your local city library. |
Jim
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posted 04-29-2008 12:06 AM
In collecting space books you're still a newbie yet I have 240 and still adding to the collection (and I'm sure there are others out there who have more than I do). |
Space Emblem Art
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From: Citrus Heights, CA - USA
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posted 04-29-2008 12:58 AM
You know you're a space geek when you're attending a Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons concert with your wife and while listening to the music and watching the various lights on stage you notice the circular lighting patterns with alternating light and dark areas cast onto the stage floor and you think "Gee, looks like fully deployed Apollo CM parachutes". |
Rick
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posted 04-29-2008 08:09 AM
You might be a space geek if your seven-year-old son randomly asks his baseball teammates if they know who the second man to walk on the Moon was. Adam does, and can actually name most, if not all, of the 12. |
garymilgrom
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posted 04-29-2008 02:17 PM
You might be a space geek if you and your 7-year old sister build a Shuttle flight deck mockup under the stairs in your home.And you might also be a space geek if your young friends nickname you Spacegary. |
GACspaceguy
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From: Guyton, GA
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posted 07-17-2008 09:26 AM
...you go into Lowes, see this ceiling fan and entertain the idea of adding it to you living room. |
Rick
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posted 07-17-2008 10:21 AM
Aww, man... that fan is SO in my office. Very, very cool. However, the space geek in all of us will be quick to point out that the Saturn V was NOT painted silver and had five main engines, not three. |
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