A Brief Pause From The Ordinary..., Demographics time--please just humor me Options

[nasaman58]

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?

[CosmicRocker]

Wow! When Nasaman58 started this topic, I never guessed it would reveal so much of the underlying fabric that makes this the best space forum on the web today. No wonder the quality here is so high. There is a huge diversity of people from all walks of life and from all over the planet, all with one deep-seated desire...to understand the universe around them and to communicate with like-minded individuals. What an amazing community this is.

I wasn't here when this forum started, but Doug created something almost magical here, and I feel privileged to have found it.

OK. I was thinking that I was going to win the oldest member award, at roughly 54.60239 years old. I shaved some of the precision off of that estimate, since I really don't remember the exact hms of my birth date, nor the exact time I will publish this. Regardless, it appears I am one of the older members.

I am a geologist by training and at heart, though I have been working for the past dozen years as an environmental engineer for a chemical company. I have been interested in space for as long as I can remember. I recall my father taking me outside to look toward the sky, hoping to see Sputnik after just turning 7 years old. I remember Dad bringing home a sample of the (I think aluminized mylar) material the Echo satellite was made from, and going out to look for it. I remember waking in the morning to run out to find the newspaper so I could (hopefully) find the close-up pictures of the Moon from one of the Ranger missions. You can't imagine how devastating the news was to my young self, when the newspapers revealed that yet another Ranger Probe had entirely missed the moon!

Oh, but when they finally did hit it. I was hooked for life. As you can tell, I could probably go on for ages about this stuff, but I think this is getting long enough.

I chose my screen name (CosmicRocker) because of my love of rocks and the wonderful information they contain. Rocks from other worlds are even more interesting. Beyond that, my favorite rock band from my grad school years was the Moody Blues. They had a popular hit back then called "Veteran Cosmic Rocker."