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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
Yay!
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
The great art of strapping three human beings onto a rather long pointy tube stuffed with explosives, hoping they will put out enough thrust to overcome gravity and displace themselves in the great vacuum only to end up in a circle around our sole satellite, from which a laughably shaped spindly vehicle is flung to the surface, after which two men descend from the vehicle to find out our moon is made entirely out of..
dust.
Risking their lives.
yay.
;]
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Niel Amrstrong was on TV today. In the whole thiry years I've rarely heard anything about him, just once in a while. The guy has displayed more class then anyone else I've ever heard of. He could have made Millions or even billions.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
I'm not sure it's "class" so much as going into seclusion... :-)
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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
RW's description makes it sound that much more impressive.
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Posted by Feste on :
Another person on TV today was Colonel Eileen Collins who will be the first woman to command a space flight on Tuesday, July 20th, on the space shuttle Columbia. Yes!!!
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
Which was about frigging time. Are there any black astronauts yet?
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Dr. Mae Jemison is a former astronaut. I don't know if she went into space or not. She is the one who was in the TNG episode "Second Chances". She credits Nichelle Nichols as an inspiration.
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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
As I recall, a man named Guion Bluford was the first black astronaut. I forget which shuttle mission he went up on. But the book on his life has been at my library for some time.
We also have a current astronaut roster. One can see at a glance that women and minorities are very well represented. It's pretty cool. Blacks, whites, Asians, Indians, Native Americans, men, women, all working towards common goals.
Show me somewhere ELSE that happens.
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Posted by Saiyanman Benjita (Member # 122) on :
Just more proof that we live in the greatest era of all time.
------------------ All we are is dust in the wind, dude.... Dust, Wind, DUDE!!!
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
For the record: according to the head count on the poster I have at the Library:
Active Astronauts: 136 Women 29 Asian-American 7 Black 5 Hispanic 4 Indian 1
And there are others whose ethnicities I was unable to determine merely from looking at pictures and names. And I don't know what ethnicity Franklin Chang-Diaz is.. Biracial?
------------------ "When we turn our back on our principles, we stop being human." -- Janeway, "Equinox"
Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
Honestly, that's better than I expected.
BTW, don't you think it's time for another space disaster? :]
I know MIR is a disaster, but that's not what I had in mind of course.
Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
And Mir still has the potential to become more of a disaster.
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
In other news today, The Space station Mir fell to Earth landing in the Nerderlands, killing one, who last words were, "I Knew It!!!!"
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Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
I know you like to see me die, but not yet. I'm sorry.
Nerderlands??
Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
I think Kosh has a sudden urge to use the "word" "Nerderlands" often enough. 'Tis all.
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
Posted by RW (Member # 27) on :
Aha. The Nerderlands versus the United Studs of America?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
*LOL*
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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
Those damn "United Studs of America" would never let me join.
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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
I went back and looked. It's Nederlands!! sorry @)
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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
Yeah. The Nerderlands are much further south and the beer is awful!
Youshould come live here too, very compact and cosy :]
Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :
Nederland is the country.
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
