You know you're a UMSF fan when..., Fan? Or HARDCORE fan? Options

[David]

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You have to get your UMSF fix every morning before leaving for work.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

Your co-workers have started commenting on the number of bathroom breaks you take so you can log into UMSF from your laptop.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You've got the Cassini encounter schedules entered in your PDA a year in advance.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You take vacation time off to coincide with Cassini encounters.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

Your walls are covered with posters showing the view from the top of Husband Hill.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You've replaced all the windows in your home with backlit screens showing the view from the top of Husband Hill.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You know the area between Endurance and Victoria better than you know the streets within half a mile of your own home.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You turned your entire backyard into a to-scale model of the area between Endurance and Victoria.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You go "squee!" when Steve Squyres appears on NASA-TV.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You recently went shopping for a gilded frame for the picture on your Steve Squyres altar at home.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You name your pets "Spirit" and "Opportunity".

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You name your children "Spirit" and "Opportunity".

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

Your kids want to be rover drivers when they grow up.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You want to be a rover driver when you grow up.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You're more interested in possible methane showers on Titan than whether it's going to rain tomorrow.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You carry an umbrella especially designed to repel methane showers.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You know exactly how old you're going to be when New Horizons reaches Pluto.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You checked the annuity tables to find out what your risk is of dying before New Horizons reaches Pluto.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You decorate your Christmas tree with models of planets, moons, and interplanetary spacecraft.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You celebrate launch and flyby anniversaries instead of Christmas.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You wrote a letter to Congress when DAWN was cancelled.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You made a bargain with the space gods that they should take your life instead of DAWN's.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You remember exactly where you were when the first plume was observed on Enceladus.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You remember exactly where you were on Sol 465.

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You think there ought to be a mission dedicated to exploring Uranus.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You think there ought to be a mission dedicated to exploring Uranus, and THAT'S NOT A JOKE!

[djellison]

That...is GENIUS...seriously - I scheduled my last major holiday at a period when I knew there wouldn't be too much MER activity

Doug

[volcanopele]

You know you're a UMSF fan when:

You've got the Cassini encounter schedules entered in your PDA a year in advance.

But you know you're a hardcore UMSF fan when:

You take vacation time off to coincide with Cassini encounters.

To the first, only a year? I spent a couple of hours inputting Emily's entire encounter table onto mine.
As to the second part, would mine be instead that I work for 24 hours straight during Cassini Encounters (okay, not anymore)

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

Today the weather is very hot, it would be fine if I had an UMSF fan to blow some cool air. Maybe I should go shopping in the UMSF goodies page.

Er, what's wrong?

[Phil Stooke]

Brilliant!

Phil

[Bjorn Jonsson]

I wonder into which category the following (some of which I am a bit familiar with ) falls:

(1) You remember every targeted and nontargeted Galileo flyby of the Galileans (e.g. the G8 Ganymede images and the Callisto images during that same orbit, the G28 Ganymede images, the very high resolution E12 Europa images and the Ganymede Gilgamesh images from the same orbit etc.). You also remember the approximate dates of these flybys...

(2) You had to get yourself a bigger computer and extra hard disks to be able to process and store PDS images from various spacecraft.

(3) You don't know how many PDS images you have on your computer but saying that you have tens of thousands is an understatement.

(4) You left your computer running for 200+ hours to do a big animation of the Cassini SOI...

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

Perhaps not a fan of UMSF, because I was already sick from long ago:

-when I look at the sunset, I don't see the sun lowering behind the horizon, but the earh rotating and hiding the sun

-looking at the moon (by day) while holding an orange in my hand, and see the same crescent on the moon and the orange.

-when looking at the sunset, I sit down and them get up to follow the last contact for about half a second

-Once when taking a rendez-vous with a social worker, I told her that I cannot accept the date she proposed because of the venus transit. What's the heck, serious things first.

-looking space odissey 2001 in a loop, and change only to see space odissey 2010. And I am still not happy, I'm waiting for 2068 and 3001 in movie.

-others

[ElkGroveDan]

Perhaps not a fan of UMSF, because I was already sick from long ago:

Me too. I was forced to spend the July 4th holiday in 1997 at my mother-in-law's house for a family barbecue. I had cable television service installed ahead of time so that I could watch Pathfinder coverage.

[Nix]

Guilty of;

- checking UMSF before going to work
- 'decorating' half of the living room with Mars pans, after having painted the walls in caramel and brown tints
- having spend about $ 800 on hard disks to cope with raws and pds downloads and memory to run big pans
- about to invest another $ 2000 for a second 'off-the-net' computer and a 21" high-quality lcd
- went to Cambridge to meet up with Doug, Helen and of course Steven, while I was actually very tired at the time (little -adorable- growing kids..). Though I'm sure Steven was the one who was really exhausted..

- sleeping insane hours to get the most out of preparing a panorama-DVD and learning colorimetry
- having a daughter calling every brownish item resembling Mars
- neglecting friends and family to follow the rovers' every step
- dreaming of a one way trip to Mars when my kids have grown up -spending some time walking through the big valley and when my supplies are thru, find a nice spot and take off the helmet.. (yes, I am serious, no; I'm probably not that sane -but I don't care )

Nico

[climber]

Only trouble for me is that all of this started by december 1968 during Apollo 8 flight and it's not gona give up for quite a while...

[paxdan]

you start buying models again after a 20 year hiatus...

[um3k]

-when I look at the sunset, I don't see the sun lowering behind the horizon, but the earh rotating and hiding the sun

"But the fool on the hill sees the sun going down, and the eyes in his head see the world spinning round..."

[Bob Shaw]

Guilty as charged, M'Lud, and I'd like another twelve similar 'enthusiasms' taken into account.

Bob Shaw

[nprev]

Me too. I was forced to spend the July 4th holiday in 1997 at my mother-in-law's house for a family barbecue. I had cable television service installed ahead of time so that I could watch Pathfinder coverage.

I was actually on the third day of my honeymoon then, and my wife was quite upset that I insisted on watching CNN coverage of Pathfinder at the hotel and deferred, uh, more traditional activities...

Hard-core? You bet, since Mariner 9! (Hmm...is there another "you know you're a..." there if you remember missions more than 30 years old?) I should get an UMSF tattoo...

[Guest_Richard Trigaux_*]

I was actually on the third day of my honeymoon then, and my wife was quite upset that I insisted on watching CNN coverage of Pathfinder at the hotel and deferred, uh, more traditional activities...

This is a very good motive, which had very much pleased your woman, of course.

Hard-core? You bet, since Mariner 9! (Hmm...is there another "you know you're a..." there if you remember missions more than 30 years old?) I should get an UMSF tattoo...

The stage further hardcore: UMSF fundamentalist WARIOR

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