A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me |
A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me |
Apr 18 2005, 01:52 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 24 Joined: 17-April 05 Member No.: 236 |
I just joined this community last night, and I'm just curious about some of the people here. I'm only 19 years old, but I'm more interested in all things space than anyone I've ever met. Just out of curiosity, what are people's ages in this forum?
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Jun 4 2008, 07:22 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617 |
Family legend is that my mother held me up to watch the Apollo 11 landing on the ward's TV set, a few weeks after I was born. (Apparently I had jaundice so they'd kept me in for a few weeks.) I do IT security stuff at an Internet company. I've been aware of space since I was woken up to be shown the milky way (aged 6 or so)... then I remember staring for hours at the cover of an LP of "The Planets" with a lovely painting of the Apollo CM/SM heading out to the moon... but it was discovering a large-format atlas with gorgeous Mars landscapes from the Viking orbiters in the school library, and immediately recognising some landforms that we were learning about in geography, that really got me hooked. Come to think of it - funny, I'd forgotten this - for my geography A Level (the exams you do at age 18 in the UK) we had to submit some original coursework. Alas! My proposal on Martian analogues of terrestrial geological processes was rejected out of hand... a couple of weeks later they said no to Antarctica as well, and I ended up writing a load of piffle about the Severn Bridge in my first all-nighter. Ah me, miserable days...
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