Luckier than me! Saw some, but it was more difficult to spot. Still good fun though. Drove to the darkest place we could think off, took the roof off the car and sat with the heater on. Didn't realise how quickly these things come and go, I spotted most of them out of the corner of my eye rather than looking at them directly.Orava wrote:Just been out in the garden for 30mins and seen about 20 Perseids, including one with a big, fat trail. Pretty good. One or two shooting starts too that appeared to come from a completely different angle. And a couple of satellites.
But then I can see the Milky Way quite clearly from our garden, which you never could back in Bristol.
Magical, I think I'll go back out for some more.
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I remember being in Kent in 1972 or 1973 or maybe early 1974, and a bunch of us went out to see a satellite burn up. It came over from West to East, and lasted a second or two, which is a long time compared to meteors. It obviously wasn't Skylab, I do wonder what it was, I think I remember being told it was Russian, but I don't remember the name at all.
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There is a hole in the shuttle. Someone get some polyfiller quick.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3473605
I wonder why this is news - I remember the thing landing years ago with several tiles actually missing. Maybe it is in a different place?
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3473605
I wonder why this is news - I remember the thing landing years ago with several tiles actually missing. Maybe it is in a different place?
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It's news because a previous Shuttle broke up on re-entry due to damaged tiles.Orava wrote:There is a hole in the shuttle. Someone get some polyfiller quick.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3473605
I wonder why this is news - I remember the thing landing years ago with several tiles actually missing. Maybe it is in a different place?
It's all to do with where the damage is located.
Bloody cheapskate design is the issue - if it was built to the original NASA specs, this would never have happened.
The Shuttle is, indeed, the most complex thing ever created by man, and it has wondrous beauty - but it is flawed beauty.
They are walking now to assess whether they need to repair it - at least they can do these days.
The Shuttle is, indeed, the most complex thing ever created by man, and it has wondrous beauty - but it is flawed beauty.
They are walking now to assess whether they need to repair it - at least they can do these days.
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I was led to believe that was the Playstation Three. Regrettably I've long held a personal suspicion that it could actually be Myspace. Makes my machine run slower than anything. Plus I have to login about eight times to look at pictures.Zoot wrote:The Shuttle is, indeed, the most complex thing ever created by man
As for the leonids, me and a colleague locked up the office at midnight and went out into the car park, just outside Cardiff city centre and watched them fall for about an hour and a half. It was lush, one about every five minutes perhaps, but some were magnificent to watch, two seconds of the thing itself then a sort of pervading light after warsd that's still too elusive in its duration to allow the mind to quantify how beautiful it is, and unquantifiably beautiful is the least I could say about it. I'll be sure to check out the next batch, I always like an eclipse and such but I think out where I could see the milky way, and as someone usefully reminded me above, perhaps a bit of hawkwind with me, and I'll be a very happy Goatboy.
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Just read the last few posts in this thread and I got to thinking. Astronauts are pretty fucking amazing aren't they. Not only are they super fit, extremely intelligent jet pilots, but they gotta be capable of getting out there and actually repairing the massively complex shuttle. Who are these gods among men?
It cannot be that hard to change homebase granite effect lino and polystyrene.Orava wrote:There is a hole in the shuttle. Someone get some polyfiller quick.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=3473605
I wonder why this is news - I remember the thing landing years ago with several tiles actually missing. Maybe it is in a different place?
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What makes it for me is the ones who have had to think "Fuck, there's a big hole in this thing, and we don't know whether we will make it back alive, but we won't find out until ten days time, so in the meantime let's get on with doing the job."flookster wrote:Just read the last few posts in this thread and I got to thinking. Astronauts are pretty fucking amazing aren't they. Not only are they super fit, extremely intelligent jet pilots, but they gotta be capable of getting out there and actually repairing the massively complex shuttle. Who are these gods among men?
Seriously - balls of steel.
Oh, and the best?
Pete Conrad - no doubt in my mind (although Armstrong was so much more than just the first man on the moon).
Original, for sure, but why the best?kalmar wrote:Gagarin FTW - original and best.Zoot wrote:
Pete Conrad - no doubt in my mind (although Armstrong was so much more than just the first man on the moon).
Armstrong performed the first manned docking on Gemini 8 (and docking was what lost the Russians the race to the moon, because they hadn't managed it, even without men) and as well as that performed heroically to correct a life-threatening spin on the same flight. He also "tamed" the lunar landing simulator (almost geting killed in the process), and then just happened to be the first man on the moon.
Conrad, however, was just cool.
