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Topic: You might be a space geek
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Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 2012
From: Toms River, NJ,USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-11-2012 05:24 AM
   
An astronaut showed a photo of an astronaut on the moon. He claimed it was Buzz Aldrin. I said no, half aloud.Not that I have fantastic vision and can read name tags on a photo projected on a screen from 20 feet away, but I knew it wasn't Aldrin because the astronaut had a red stripe on his suit - which wasn't used until Apollo 13. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-11-2012 08:57 PM
...you realize that you are possibly stupid for all these years when you finally notice the area code for KSC is 321. 3...2...1. It took me a few years before I noticed it. |
Chariot412
Member Posts: 87
From: Lockport, NY, 14094
Registered: Jun 2011
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posted 04-11-2012 09:45 PM
Your seventh grade homeroom teacher makes you sign an autograph because he thinks "maybe, just maybe...".You and your junior high buddy write to NASA for Command Module plans and spend your summer and allowances on toggle switches at radio shack for the Main Display Panel. Your nickname in high school is "Cosmic." |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-12-2012 01:57 AM
When you start thinking of which NASA program you will write your Western Civ 1 term paper on without even knowing how far the class goes to and that it won't start until next September. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 1348
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 04-13-2012 09:54 AM
You might be a space geek if you try for two days to pull up drawing 1159CSMXXXX and cannot. When you ask your lead designer to try he says, "What the heck is a CSM drawing? We only have CMs in the system" sheepishly you walk away saying "CSM is Command Service Module, never mind." Here's your space geek sign.  |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 2012
From: Toms River, NJ,USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 04-13-2012 10:15 AM
The Powers That Be at work had a meeting to discuss story ideas. One of them was titled, "Yes I Am A Rocket Scientist," in part about the number of scientists who work in the NY-area but supposedly the number of scientists overall are on the decline. (I don't write the budget lines, I just do the story.)Anyway, TPTB wondered, "Who could do such a story?" And they all came back with one answer: "Hart." Hey, it meant I legitimately got to attend the Int'l Day of Human Spaceflight at the UN yesterday.... |
drifting to the right
Member Posts: 54
From:
Registered: Aug 2006
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posted 04-14-2012 10:25 AM
Your dog is smart, impish, and named "Wally." I love that dog. |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 143
From: Albany, Oregon USA
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 04-14-2012 11:36 PM
You record Apollo countdowns and launches from an old cassette onto a CD also containing favorite songs and listen to it in your vehicle to and from work. Apollo 10 has an especially good sub woofer friendly bass to it. |
Max Q
Member Posts: 377
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 04-15-2012 05:21 AM
You might be a Space geek if you think that CD could make the top 10 on the music charts. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-23-2012 07:58 PM
When your sociology professor says "Since NASA retied the shuttles they have shutdown." You immediately reply by talking about all of the probes but he cuts you off saying "This sounds like a Big Bang Theory episode." |
p51
Member Posts: 686
From: Olympia, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 04-23-2012 10:08 PM
If you think you're going to have a bad day at work, you decide to wear one of your mission shirts, knowing if THOSE guys could hop in a rocket and risk a horrific death, then no stupid meeting at the office could be anywhere near as bad, and then go through the day like you're wearing a suit of armor... |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 965
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-23-2012 11:29 PM
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Originally posted by Fezman92:
When your sociology professor says "Since NASA retied the shuttles they have shutdown." You immediately reply by talking about all of the probes but he cuts you off saying "This sounds like a Big Bang Theory episode."
So, your professor makes a baldly false declaration, which most if not all of your classmates are unequipped and/or disinclined to challenge, and for doing so you're cut off with a cheap quip about a TV show? Sounds like you're getting your tuition's worth with that class. Mirrors most of my undergrad experience. On the lighter side, you might be a space geek if: Your current phone wallpaper is a hi-res shot of Atlantis from the ISS; on your work PC, it's Discovery and the SCA approaching Dulles (Thanks Glint!); and on your home computer it's Robert McCall's poster art for 2001: A Space Odyssey... ...And you change each of them roughly every other day. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-23-2012 11:46 PM
It is a community college, what do you expect? I am getting out next spring and I will, if all goes to plan, go to University of Arizona in Tuscon of an Astronomy degree with eventual plans of working for NASA (JPL or Goddard). |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 965
From: Denver, CO USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 04-24-2012 12:22 AM
Good to hear. U of A's astronomy and planetary science programs are among the best in the world... but you know that or you wouldn't be going there.The scenery ain't bad, either.  |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2187
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 04-24-2012 06:57 AM
If model builders whom you've never corresponded with before email you for tips on how to build space shuttle models because they've seen your shuttle model work online (guilty as charged as I tend to average one new email about every four months). |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 04-24-2012 09:40 AM
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Originally posted by GoesTo11:
The scenery ain't bad, either.
When I get my Master's (eventually) I would like to get it at University of Hilo (Hawaii). Also you know you are a space geek when you are having issues trying to simply String Theory for your final English paper. |
Spacemac
Member Posts: 41
From: Schererville, Indiana, united states
Registered: May 2009
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posted 04-25-2012 12:31 PM
You must be a space geek if you keep ordering new space models even though you have run out of room to display any and have many yet to build because you want a model of each rocket. |
WAWalsh
Member Posts: 791
From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 04-27-2012 01:32 PM
... if your children can answer trivia questions.Daughter number 2 is off in India doing charity work and the volunteers apparently hold trivia challenge competitions (Robert may recall her as a 4th grader and her astonaut autograph collection appearing in Martha Stewart's magazine). She managed to win the champ of evening title when answering questions -- what vehicle would one use on the Sea of Tranquility and who ate the first hamburger in space (on this one, I actually suspect that the answer was wrong, but she received credit for John Young). |
englau
Member Posts: 94
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-01-2012 09:22 PM
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Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 05-07-2012 10:18 PM
When you are trying to figure out what photo from your "NASA" folder you want as your Facebook Timeline photo. I am really tempted to go with the Apollo 8 Earthrise although some of the ISS/Shuttle and Hubble images are good as well. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 05-27-2012 04:46 PM
When you watch Airplane II and you spend most of the film trying to figure out where they put everything in the shuttle and how they were able to launch without pressure suits and the SRBs and ET. You also get depressed since the US does not have a firm stable plan to get back to the moon. |
Gonzo
Member Posts: 322
From: Lansing, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-28-2012 07:00 AM
...when you watch a film like "MIB3" and can pick out multiple errors about the stack, launch tower, the launch sequence and security, escape hardware issues, etc., etc., etc... |
englau
Member Posts: 94
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-28-2012 09:27 PM
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mikepf
Member Posts: 345
From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-28-2012 11:36 PM
Lots of cool stuff there, but I just have to ask about the picture of the cat in the spacesuit. Is your cat a space geek too? |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 985
From: Maspeth, NY
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 05-29-2012 09:14 AM
I remember when Wally Schirra passed away and a friend called me to offer her condolences. |
englau
Member Posts: 94
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-29-2012 02:19 PM
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Originally posted by mikepf:
Is your cat a space geek too?
Thanks. I wish that were my cat. That would make for a cool photo indeed. It's actually a poster I found in a CD shop. I beleive it is the album cover for a band called "Klaxons." I've never listened to their music though. |
Gonzo
Member Posts: 322
From: Lansing, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-29-2012 03:17 PM
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Originally posted by englau:
...needless to say, my roommate puts up with a lot.
You need more patches! I only see about a dozen...
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englau
Member Posts: 94
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-29-2012 03:29 PM
Haha. I do, Gonzo! I try to get a few each trip I take to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, but I'm starting to bid on eBay too now! It's less of a toll on my pocketbook.Do you have a patch collection as well? |
p51
Member Posts: 686
From: Olympia, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 05-29-2012 04:20 PM
If you have a dream of being at the KSC visitor complex gift shop and finding the upper floor filled with flown objects, complete and partial space suits, signed stuff stacked everywhere, you're the first one in the place that morning and you recall you have a credit card which you know is good for anything you want...Then, you wake up and curse the feeling you're having by realizing it was only a dream. It happened to me the night before last and I'm still bummed out about it. |
englau
Member Posts: 94
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 05-29-2012 08:56 PM
That sounds like quite a bummer! I wish the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex was filled with signed stuff. That would be pretty neat, but perhaps would also deplete the value and demand for such items. In any case, a fun dream. I always dream that I'm interviewing astronauts and then wake up to realize I did not actually gain any knowledge or insight! |
mikepf
Member Posts: 345
From: San Jose, California, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-31-2012 11:25 PM
You might be a space geek if your wife hands you a giant tightly aluminum foil wrapped burrito and the first thing you think of is an Apollo quarantine trailer. |
Ronpur
Member Posts: 140
From: Brandon, Fl
Registered: May 2012
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posted 06-28-2012 06:35 PM
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Originally posted by astro-nut:
When you name your pet "Apollo".
Oh, I did that because of Magnum PI. Had Zeus as well! |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2187
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 06-28-2012 07:58 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Ronpur:
Oh, I did that because of Magnum PI. Had Zeus as well!
That only works if they are Dobermans.  |
Philip
Member Posts: 4746
From: Brussels, BELGIUM
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 06-29-2012 08:12 AM
if... you're reaching for 5000 posts on collectSPACE.com. |
Max Q
Member Posts: 377
From: Whyalla South Australia
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 06-29-2012 08:54 AM
You might be a space geek if you visit this site every day before during and after you visit Facebook. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 08-17-2012 08:31 AM
When you become a tutor for your college and your business cards also say "will teach about space exploration if asked" even though there is no space exploration class at the college. |
englau
Member Posts: 94
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 01-11-2013 05:52 PM
...if you redo your room and your guests start referring to it as "the gallery." I'll take that as a compliment. ...if your Christmas presents this year consisted of 20 lithographs and a shuttle model kit. ...if you come home from college to see a huge 3ftx3ft posterboard of all the female astronauts displayed in the living room as a welcome home present. ...if your aunt sends you a Mercury astronaut GI Joe and you and your dad both fight over it. (Maybe thats why he's a space geek!)  
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Gonzo
Member Posts: 322
From: Lansing, MI, USA
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 01-12-2013 06:40 AM
I see you've sdded a few patches to your collection..."Well done, Sulu. Nice job!" |
p51
Member Posts: 686
From: Olympia, WA, USA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 01-12-2013 03:16 PM
You once argued with your middle school social studies teacher in class, who had no idea that the.best thing about being vice president is to be in charge of the space program... |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1029
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 01-12-2013 05:56 PM
After four years, you get your parents to let you apply for the NASA History internship for the summer. |
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