Members inscho Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 were you fascinated with outer space as a kid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIKILOCKEDOUT Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 Yes, but now it's all about inner space baby ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members opultaM Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 Still am. But it's less "fascinated", more "think space is badass" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Johnny Beverage Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 I had the solar system on my duvet:thu: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inscho Posted January 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 i mean were any of you obsessed with it as kids? telescopes, constellation maps, stars on your ceiling, went to space camp, etc?{censored}, I have a star named after me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fearofnightmare Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 i used to make my parents take me to NASA Houston a lot when I lived there, but that's about it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIKILOCKEDOUT Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 I had pictures of bamboo allover my bed sheets ... lots of little ?'s allover my bedroom walls ... Bonsai on my desks ... incense drifted gently across the dust sparkling light that streamed in through wooden windows ... I gathered myself up in loose flowing robes each day and then fed the Carp. Yeah, I was fascinated with space ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CS Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 i mean were any of you obsessed with it as kids? telescopes, constellation maps, stars on your ceiling, went to space camp, etc? {censored}, I have a star named after me. Some of my earliest memories are of watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon (on TV of course). When I watched the Apollo 13 film and they went around the dark side of the moon, I actually remembered playing in my front drive (yard) and my Mum (Mom) calling me in to watch James Burke explain why it was so dangerous. When John Glenn recently went into space, we were talking about the early days of space exploration and he mentioned that he used to listen to the radio coverage of Chuck Yaeger (sp) breaking the sound barrier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PFDarkside Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 Isn't every little kid? I had the constellation maps, and panets on the ceiling, wanted to go to space camp, like my parents had cash for that... lol. I used to love the plane-arium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inscho Posted January 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 when my dad got diagnosed with sarcoid dosis, we lived in central georgia...and we would make monthly hospital visits up to atlanta...my parents would always take me here:looks pretty lame now...but man it was awesome as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wilbo26 Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 Hell yeah. Still am. I even have a telescope. And some of my favorite games are ones where you can fly around in space and explore and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Seth Carmody Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 Yes, but now it's all about inner space baby ...What, interior decorating?I stuck glow-in-the-dark stars and planets on my ceiling - that was about as far as it went. Once at a camp some leader offered to show me where the Southern Cross was, but...meh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inscho Posted January 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 Some of my earliest memories are of watching Neil Armstrong walk on the moon (on TV of course). When I watched the Apollo 13 film and they went around the dark side of the moon, I actually remembered playing in my front drive (yard) and my Mum (Mom) calling me in to watch James Burke explain why it was so dangerous. When John Glenn recently went into space, we were talking about the early days of space exploration and he mentioned that he used to listen to the radio coverage of Chuck Yaeger (sp) breaking the sound barrier. wow thats really awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wilbo26 Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 Oh yeah...speaking of Chuck Yeager and the early space program...if any one of you hasn't seen The Right Stuff you shall go forth, purchase it and watch it ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIKILOCKEDOUT Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 What, interior decorating? I stuck glow-in-the-dark stars and planets on my ceiling - that was about as far as it went. Once at a camp some leader offered to show me where the Southern Cross was, but...meh Ironically it's ALL about interior decorating ... you could certainly call it that - but I jest. I have been nuts for space all my life and heavily into hard science fiction as well. Read a great deal of Asimov in the school library during lunch breaks as a kid.The Southern Cross is very important in constellation terms - features on our Australian flag - you may want to check it out one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fernmeister Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 yeah, up until about age 10 or 11. i had a cheap telescope, could name the basic formations in the night sky, read up on the usual trivia about the solar system. one of my first "what I want to be when I grow up" spells was focussed on being an engineer for NASA. by junior high school, i became much more interested in history and geography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Teahead Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 I grew up immersed in the Star Wars films, which left a deep fascination with space. I also had lots of dinosaur toys and books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ben Glass Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 i had magazines about shuttles and stuff, stars on the ceiling. saw a program about the moons of saturn the other day brought back all the excitemnt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TIKILOCKEDOUT Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 . I also had lots of dinosaur toys and books. Man I tell ya ... it was always those Brontosaurus with the lasers on their heads that fascinated me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inscho Posted January 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 i had magazines about shuttles and stuff, stars on the ceiling. saw a program about the moons of saturn the other day brought back all the excitemnt that reminds me, I used to have solar system collectible cards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ben Glass Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 that reminds me, I used to have solar system collectible cards was there only 9 cards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members therhodeo Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 Does it count if I still watch Star Trek? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inscho Posted January 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 was there only 9 cards?yeah they came as prizes in some old cereal box....I probably went through 15 boxes to get all of 'em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Teahead Posted January 19, 2007 Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 I watched a show recently which detailed NASA's inventions to overcome the problems caused by zero gravity for astronauts living in space. Those poor bastards have to {censored} into a plastic bag while a fan attempts to suck the {censored} down long enough for them to get clear of it. It's not uncommon for them to have {censored} smeared up their back. If someone vomits without managing to get to this bag deal, it can float around the shuttle for the remainder of the mission. Vomit, or indeed liquid of any kind, looks so unbelievably cool at zero gravity, almost like blobs of solder, that smell bad, but then you can't smell in space anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members inscho Posted January 19, 2007 Author Members Share Posted January 19, 2007 i never realized that you couldn't smell in space.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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