What's Your Special Interest In Spaceflight? |
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What's Your Special Interest In Spaceflight? |
  Dec 24 2005, 09:56 AM
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Junior Member  Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 22-December 05 Member No.: 616  |
I have always been interested in spaceflight, especially unmanned exploration as those probes go where no one has gone before ...
Wondered if anyone has other hobbies as well? (I like running & the internet) |
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| Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Dec 27 2005, 02:34 PM
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Well... spaceflight, let me think... Unmanned spacecraft maybe
 Seriously, I'm especially interested in the ICT involved in unmanned space explorations ( Mars exploration is my all time favorite )  Other hobbies? ... Astronomy & collecting stuff about... unmanned space |
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Dec 27 2005, 05:24 PM
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Photography and astronomy (including planetary exploration) are my main hobbies. I also do a little bit of video and like to build with lego bricks when I get a chance.
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Dec 27 2005, 05:29 PM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
trekking
dreaming... reading dreaming... cooking dreaming... painting dreaming... writing dreaming... 
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Dec 29 2005, 04:37 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (um3k @ Dec 27 2005, 06:24 PM) Photography and astronomy (including planetary exploration) are my main hobbies. I also do a little bit of video and like to build with lego bricks when I get a chance.  Lego, eh? We share a dark secret! Great scenes From The Movies #45 Bob Shaw
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Dec 29 2005, 05:15 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 29 2005, 11:37 AM) Great scenes From The Movies #45 Bob Shaw 
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| Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Dec 29 2005, 05:52 PM
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Nice, that scene from the movie " 2001 a space Odyssey ", pitty one of the astros is missing his/her visor...
 By the way, do You know the excellent book : HAL's legacy - 2001's computer as dream and reality ( MIT Press 1997 ) (ISBN 0-262-19378-7) 
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Dec 29 2005, 09:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Dec 29 2005, 06:52 PM) Nice, that scene from the movie " 2001 a space Odyssey ", pitty one of the astros is missing his/her visor... By the way, do You know the excellent book : HAL's legacy - 2001's computer as dream and reality ( MIT Press 1997 ) (ISBN 0-262-19378-7) I suspect they were all boy astronauts - such was then the way! As for the visors, they are a result of my foolish inability to adhere to Rule 1 of toys: DON'T let kids near them! The book you mention got some good reviews, but I have yet to read it - I did, however, recently obtain a copy of the 1994 Piers Bizony book, 2001: filming the future. It's excellent, with lots of background re the development of Discovery etc. It was published by Aurum Press at £14.95 ISBN 1 85410-365 2. I got mine via eBay for much less than that, though. Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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Dec 30 2005, 04:46 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 29 2005, 04:37 PM) I suspect they were all boy astronauts - such was then the way! As for the visors, they are a result of my foolish inability to adhere to Rule 1 of toys: DON'T let kids near them! The book you mention got some good reviews, but I have yet to read it - I did, however, recently obtain a copy of the 1994 Piers Bizony book, 2001: filming the future. It's excellent, with lots of background re the development of Discovery etc. It was published by Aurum Press at £14.95 ISBN 1 85410-365 2. I got mine via eBay for much less than that, though. Bob Shaw Was the human crew on the Discovery really necessary? I think HAL 9000 was right - humans just got in the way. It could have easily carried out the mission and likely better communicated with the Monolith than the humans could. What were those three guys in suspended animation supposed to do anyway? FYI - Some of the book HAL's Legacy is online here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/ -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Dec 30 2005, 11:03 PM
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For you youngsters out there... you need to know that in the days before DVDs and even VCRs, we would go to theatres and see movies, frequently more than once.
In 1968, the year "2001" came out, and the subsequent two years, I saw that movie in the theatres 31 times...15 of those in Cinerama, the rest in "regular" theatres. Some day I'll have to build my own home Cinerama projection screen so I can relive the thrill as often as I want! -------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Dec 31 2005, 12:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Dec 30 2005, 05:46 PM) Was the human crew on the Discovery really necessary? I think HAL 9000 was right - humans just got in the way. It could have easily carried out the mission and likely better communicated with the Monolith than the humans could. What were those three guys in suspended animation supposed to do anyway? FYI - Some of the book HAL's Legacy is online here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/Hal/ The guys in the hibernaculae - Kaminski, White, and Hunter (or not, depending on the source) - were officially the Jupiter Survey Team, but were actually the ET Contact Squad. Dave Bowman and Frank Poole were just jobbing astronauts, and could well have been treated as redundant, but the other guys were privy to the true goals of the mission. Heywood Floyd's message to Discovery was really just for Bowman and Poole - the others were spooks. For references, try Arthur C Clarke's The Lost Worlds of 2001 and, of course, Jerome Agel's seminal work on 2001. As for poor HAL, he might have communicated with the aliens, but he'd not have made the sort of contact which was desired by them - they required an intelligence capable of transcending, and HAL was never going to do that, but Dave could... FWIW, Clarke originally called HAl 'Athena'. This makes me somewhat wary of most Mars rovers... Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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| Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Dec 31 2005, 12:09 PM
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Look where this topic is heading ... 2001 a space odyssey !
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| Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Jan 21 2006, 08:34 PM
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Anyone using a telescope to watch the planets?
I have a 6 inch refractor with focal length 1200 mm which gives great views of Saturn & Jupiter ... and Mars when the planet is in opposition 
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Jan 25 2006, 01:14 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 345 Joined: 2-May 05 Member No.: 372 |
QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jan 21 2006, 03:34 PM) Anyone using a telescope to watch the planets? I have a 6 inch refractor with focal length 1200 mm which gives great views of Saturn & Jupiter ... and Mars when the planet is in opposition I have the same. Mine is a Cave Astrola.
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