What's Your Special Interest In Spaceflight?

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What's Your Special Interest In Spaceflight?

Steffen View Member Profile	Dec 24 2005, 09:56 AM Post #1
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 29 2005, 05:52 PM Post #2
Guests	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)

Bob Shaw View Member Profile	Dec 29 2005, 09:37 PM Post #3
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!

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Dec 30 2005, 04:46 PM Post #4
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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Steffen What's Your Special Interest In Spaceflight? Dec 24 2005, 09:56 AM

PhilCo126 Well... spaceflight, let me think... Unmanned spac... Dec 27 2005, 02:34 PM

um3k Photography and astronomy (including planetary exp... Dec 27 2005, 05:24 PM

ustrax trekking dreaming... reading dreaming... cooking d... Dec 27 2005, 05:29 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (um3k @ Dec 27 2005, 06:24 PM)Photograp... Dec 29 2005, 04:37 PM

um3k QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 29 2005, 11:37 AM)Great... Dec 29 2005, 05:15 PM

PhilCo126 Nice, that scene from the movie " 2001 a spac... Dec 29 2005, 05:52 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Dec 29 2005, 06:52 PM)Nice... Dec 29 2005, 09:37 PM

ljk4-1 QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ Dec 29 2005, 04:37 PM)I sus... Dec 30 2005, 04:46 PM

Bob Shaw QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ Dec 30 2005, 05:46 PM)Wa... Dec 31 2005, 12:13 AM

ilbasso For you youngsters out there... you need to know t... Dec 30 2005, 11:03 PM

PhilCo126 Look where this topic is heading ... 2001 a space ... Dec 31 2005, 12:09 PM

PhilCo126 Anyone using a telescope to watch the planets? I h... Jan 21 2006, 08:34 PM

um3k QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jan 21 2006, 03:34 PM)Anyo... Jan 25 2006, 01:14 AM

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