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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Aug 26 2005, 11:04 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: 1-March 04 From: Belgium Member No.: 41 |
Wow, this board truly is a place of talents!
I'm 35, and currently a student. Hopefully this will be my last (Thesis) year to become conservator/restorator of visual media. In normal people speak: restoring old photographs, films and more and more : disaster prevention re: digital archiving, sigh. Stuff that's 100years old is ofthen in far better condition than stuff from the 70's either analog or digital. We're losing a tremendous amount of valuable information, that's only 20-30 years old... Going back to full time studies is hard, when you did hard unskilled and temp work for more than ten years, I can assure you, but it's thrilling too. I do *not* regret it! Oh, I'm from Belgium, and can't remember the days when i was *not* interested in the stuff outside our atmosphere, especially Mars, which I somehow consider as my lost homeplanet (yea, I'm weird...) My best birthdaypresent was the landing of Spirit, friends that came visiting me were a bit frustrated I didn't spend any time with them, but was very close friends with my computer, occasionally jumping around like a lunatic, heehee! |
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Aug 26 2005, 11:51 PM
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Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
Time to add a bit of a profile for myself I think.
I'm 39, work for a large American semiconductor manufacturer as an IT systems architect specialising in handheld devices. that means that I get to play with lots of gadgets but spend most of my time wishing I worked with stuff that used _real_ operating systems. It also means that I spend far more time than is healthy talking to people about "power budgets" and optimisation strategies for power consumption vs processing capability which might go some way to explaining my fixation with the solar panel's on Spirit and Opportunity. I've been a space nut since my folks allowed me to stay up watching some Apollo 17 coverage late one night when I was 6, it's one of my earliest memories. I'm an unapologetic engineer rather than a pure science or imaging buff - I love working over the numbers that trickle down to us to see how the real rocket scientists make all this stuff happen and what the explanations are. And right now I'm about to take a well deserved break from work to spend two weeks relaxing in Malta, getting some sun (something rarely seen in Ireland) and enjoying something completely different. The timing is a bit bad what with all the excitement on Husband Hill but with a bit of luck all of the imaging gurus will have some amazing stuff for me on my return. |
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