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 The Poet Dude  Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Sorry ustrax, don't mean to sound exclusively negative. I celebrate the wonders we've achieved, obviously, I'm just saddened that we fled the Moon prematurely and left the exploration of the solar system to spaceprobes instead of living, breathing human beings. As wonderful as the images returned by Cassini, Voyager and all the other aluminium ambassadors despatched from Earth are and have been, I'd much rather wide-with-wonder human eyes had seen those magnificent landscapes through space helmet visors, you know?
And, truth be told, I'm just mad at Maggie Philbin for lying to me when I was a kid and telling me on Tomorrow's World there'd be people exploring Mars when I grew up. You let me down Maggie, oh you let me down so badly... 
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QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 4 2007, 09:55 AM)  Maggie Philbin I saw her getting off a train, which I then got on, here in Leicester yesterday afternoon. I'm sure she said there was going to be the dice sized holographic cube to put music on...and that would have been the early '90s. WHERE'S MY CUBE! (and my flying car) Doug |
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PhilCo126 50 Years in Space Sep 20 2007, 05:58 PM
remcook Sputnik's shape is actually quite well chosen ... Sep 21 2007, 09:23 AM PhilCo126 And an event in Scotland Sep 21 2007, 05:50 PM PhilCo126 And another major event in the U.K.:
The Lovell ra... Sep 29 2007, 05:59 PM PhilCo126 IMHO an excellent article:
http://www.nytimes.com/... Sep 29 2007, 06:40 PM Canopus And we take (communications/media especially) sate... Sep 29 2007, 08:26 PM
dvandorn QUOTE (Canopus @ Sep 29 2007, 03:26 PM) A... Sep 30 2007, 04:56 AM belleraphon1 All..
October 4th is almost here. fifty years wa... Sep 30 2007, 01:31 AM nprev ...and may the 1000th find us on the planets of ne... Sep 30 2007, 03:29 AM Stu I have very mixed emotions about this anniversary,... Sep 30 2007, 07:14 AM nprev QUOTE (Stu @ Sep 30 2007, 12:14 AM) Bit d... Sep 30 2007, 11:09 AM dvandorn That, Stuart, is a masterful expression of... well... Sep 30 2007, 08:12 AM nprev BTW, interesting to see that the lead story on CBS... Sep 30 2007, 01:03 PM Thu Here's a music clip about Sputnik that I made ... Oct 1 2007, 01:07 AM nprev QUOTE (Thu @ Sep 30 2007, 06:07 PM) Here... Oct 1 2007, 03:14 AM dvandorn QUOTE (nprev @ Sep 30 2007, 10:14 PM) Alt... Oct 1 2007, 04:31 AM belleraphon1 Stu and nprev...
I also feel betrayed. All those... Oct 1 2007, 01:52 AM edstrick pointers ---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=... Oct 1 2007, 09:33 AM Stu I've written a piece about this which I hope w... Oct 1 2007, 09:57 AM marsbug Very sad words stu, although well crafted as ever... Oct 1 2007, 12:09 PM nprev Excellent, Stu. Thanks for giving such a strong vo... Oct 2 2007, 12:24 AM Stu RETREAT
Half a century since Sputnik bleeped,
lea... Oct 4 2007, 06:16 AM ustrax QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 4 2007, 07:16 AM) Half a... Oct 4 2007, 08:20 AM SkyeLab Nice little article on the BBC website on this whi... Oct 4 2007, 08:05 AM ngunn QUOTE (Stu @ Oct 4 2007, 09:55 AM) And, t... Oct 4 2007, 09:17 AM jamescanvin Great words USTRAX, you put how I feel in much bet... Oct 4 2007, 09:15 AM ngunn Well at least your train turned up! And I sup... Oct 4 2007, 11:29 AM Stu As cute as Maggie Philbin was - and still is, havi... Oct 4 2007, 12:08 PM djellison UMSF logo......changed...and it's staying like... Oct 4 2007, 01:25 PM Thu Another WOW to the new logo & theme! Happy... Oct 4 2007, 01:44 PM David As year LI of the Space Age dawns, I'm wonderi... Oct 4 2007, 03:56 PM tedstryk QUOTE (David @ Oct 4 2007, 03:56 PM) As y... Oct 4 2007, 09:20 PM nprev I liked your poem very much, Stu. I'm an optim... Oct 5 2007, 12:16 AM dvandorn QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 4 2007, 07:16 PM) ...i... Oct 5 2007, 08:21 AM mchan QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 4 2007, 05:16 PM) EDIT... Oct 6 2007, 08:24 AM nprev QUOTE (mchan @ Oct 6 2007, 01:24 AM) CBS ... Oct 6 2007, 12:17 PM mchan QUOTE (nprev @ Oct 6 2007, 05:17 AM) If y... Oct 6 2007, 11:59 PM ngunn BBc Radio 4's 'World Tonight' programm... Oct 5 2007, 08:42 AM Paolo Amoroso Sputnik has landed in Rome at the Coliseum.
Paol... Oct 5 2007, 01:31 PM PhilCo126 50 years in space and just now they came up with t... Oct 6 2007, 09:55 AM mchan QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Oct 6 2007, 02:55 AM) ... Oct 6 2007, 11:56 PM dvandorn There *are* no Walter Cronkites or even (shudder) ... Oct 7 2007, 02:58 PM nprev Or at least our own weekly show on Discovery: The ... Oct 7 2007, 07:55 PM |
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