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Topic: You might be a space geek
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ftrastronaut
Member Posts: 12
From: Hollister, Missouri, USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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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
Member Posts: 24
From: Vienna, Austria, Europe
Registered: Mar 2007
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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
Member Posts: 93
From: Austin, TX
Registered: Sep 2007
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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
Member Posts: 399
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 12-28-2007 08:18 PM
quote:
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
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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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
Member Posts: 390
From: Yeovil, 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
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 01-07-2008 11:57 AM
quote:
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
Member Posts: 655
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
Member Posts: 70
From: Las Cruces, NM, USA
Registered: May 2005
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posted 02-06-2008 07:58 PM
I love this thread. |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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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
Member Posts: 233
From: Maplewood, nj, 07040
Registered: Aug 2000
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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
Member Posts: 536
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
Member Posts: 10
From: New York
Registered: May 2007
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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
Member Posts: 1049
From: County Down, Nothern Ireland
Registered: Feb 2002
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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
Member Posts: 390
From: Yeovil, England
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted 02-10-2008 07:34 PM
quote:
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
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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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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SpaceAholic
Member Posts: 4437
From: Sierra Vista, Arizona
Registered: Nov 1999
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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
Member Posts: 111
From: Cullman, AL
Registered: Dec 2007
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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
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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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
Member Posts: 168
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
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 03-04-2008 10:23 AM
quote:
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
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 03-04-2008 05:48 PM
quote:
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
Member Posts: 1156
From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
Registered: Mar 2003
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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
Member Posts: 89
From: Auburn, AL, USA
Registered: Dec 2007
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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
Member Posts: 655
From: Norfolk, VA
Registered: May 2007
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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
Member Posts: 19
From: Norman, OK, USA
Registered: Feb 2008
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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
Member Posts: 111
From: Cullman, AL
Registered: Dec 2007
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posted 03-14-2008 04:30 PM
quote:
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
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 04-28-2008 10:53 AM
Pass 3300 posts on collectSPACE.com |
robsouth
Member Posts: 769
From: West Midlands, UK
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 04-28-2008 06:31 PM
If you have more books on spaceflight than your local city library. |
Jim
Member Posts: 73
From: San Antonio TX
Registered: Mar 2006
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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
Member Posts: 194
From: Citrus Heights, CA - USA
Registered: Jan 2006
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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
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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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
Member Posts: 1966
From: Atlanta, GA
Registered: Feb 2007
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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
Member Posts: 2474
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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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
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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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. |
Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 07-17-2008 12:24 PM
Could be a concept design. The fan could be like the landing apparatus on the Delta Clipper designs.God, I'm a geek too! You say you saw it at Lowes? |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 07-17-2008 04:59 PM
Found it! Aerospace Ceiling Fan I like it. 
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stsmithva
Member Posts: 1933
From: Fairfax, VA, USA
Registered: Feb 2007
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posted 07-17-2008 08:56 PM
You might be a space geek if you give your baby the middle name... what? I thought this might be a fun one for people to offer suggestions for. It's strictly hypothetical, but if one wanted to demonstrate great space geekness (and saddle a son or daughter with same for their entire lives) what concept, piece of equipment, or event would make a reasonable middle name? The only one I can think of right now is Lem, which isn't very good. But then Plss is worse.Actual names of astronauts are not allowed- too many possibilities. Also not allowed: astronomical names like planets or constellations. |
Rick
Member Posts: 379
From: Yadkinville, NC
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 07-17-2008 11:06 PM
If your last name begins with a "P", you could name the child Lance Michael Prescott (LMP) or Charles Millard Poppins (CMP). No one would ever be the wiser, until the names were on the birth certificate. And then you've got deniability:"No, really, Honey. It was JUST a coincidence!!!" You could tag the kid Charles David Rogers (CDR). Or Catherine Diane Riggs, whichever the case may be. Or Manuel Oliver Charles Reese (MOCR). Or if you're really cruel, Frank Igor David Oliphant (FIDO). OK... somebody had better stop me now. This just ain't right... |
tegwilym
Member Posts: 2331
From: Sturgeon Bay, WI
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 07-18-2008 04:42 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Rick:
You could tag the kid Charles David Rogers (CDR). Or Catherine Renee Riggs, whichever the case may be. Or Manuel Oliver Charles Reese (MOCR). Or if you're really cruel, Frank Igor David Oliphant (FIDO).
I have a cat named Apollo, and another cat names Meridiani. That's gotta be a cry for help! |
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