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 28 2008, 04:56 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Must be HMS, surely!
I appear to be just a bit older than Viking 1. Strangely, that makes me feel both very young and very old! I mean, like, how ancient is Viking?? That was totally the Medieval age of Mars exploration. --Emily -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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Jun 29 2008, 04:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-April 05 Member No.: 351 |
I appear to be just a bit older than Viking 1. Strangely, that makes me feel both very young and very old! I mean, like, how ancient is Viking?? That was totally the Medieval age of Mars exploration. I was twenty the summer Viking landed. I was spending the summer painting a rental house for my parents. I remember sitting on the front door step and seeing that first picture (of one of the landing pads) and being amazed that we could see the surface of Mars. I was hooked from then on. The late 70s were a great time for planetary exploration. And then the whole thing almost died in the '80s. I remember the then current director of the US federal budget saying that Jupiter will always be there when he announced the cancellation of Galileo. Since the early '90s, it's been one feast after another. The only down side to being 52 is that you start to calculate how old you'll be when some of the mission under discussion would return science. I'll be in my young to mid 70s when the next Flagship mission enters orbit around either Europa or Titan. As for my biography, I spent 25 years in high tech. Among other things, I planned microprocessor products and product lines, and hence my fascination with the planning process for future missions. (One of the processors, the Pentium Pro) had a development budget about the same a large Discovery mission. These days I'm trying to rectify an early career mistake by finally becoming a scientist. I'm getting my PhD in forest ecology, and it's not surprising that I'm using remote sensing to do my work. -------------------- |
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