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iwire said:
masterinbama, that is cool. I would not be able to keep a smile off my face if I was able to work on stuff like you have. :cool:

Hey get masterinbama will you get Bob a job there -- we need to keep a smile on his face. :D

As the Hulk says "you won't like me when I'm angry"

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Bob Ferrigno?

When I was in college, I worked briefly at a sheet metal manufacturer where Lou Ferrigno was formerly employed. They had pictures of him on the wall lifting various steel assembly tables and assorted machinery around the plant. They said the guy was actualy pretty deaf. I didn't know that until I worked there.
 
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ItsHot said:
Thank you Bob! This is very interesting stuff !The NASA program has brought us some great stuff to say the least! Everything from velcro to global positioning! Oh!. we can't forget Tang!:D :grin: Man I am getting old!

I agree, however that Tang makes me fart.

Best Wishes Everyone
 
iwire said:
I know we all tend to ignore space travel now, but you can watch and listen to the shuttle coming in here http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

I have it on and as they tell you the shuttle is coming in at 21 times the speed of sound I can not help but be impressed with the whole process.

Bob,

Glad that you and others here appreciate the space program, many folks do not.

I contracted at Kennedy Space Center, Florida as a GSE (ground support equipment) contractor from 1975 through 2001. 1975 marked the switch over from the Apollo era to shuttle.

Performed projects in almost all of NASA's 115 KSC facilities, with work ranging in scope from heavy demolition, plugging & switching, lighting, copper audio and video (twist and solder or beans, and FU tape, up to 1212s) and fiber communication, fire alarm, energy conservation and management, high pressure gas compression and monitoring, intricate switchgear installs, retrofits and testing, large UPS's, L/C 39A and 39B launch towers, from the ground to the hammerhead crane on the towers top.

My only regret is that I was never allowed to document much of the work with photos. A million $ worth of experience.

However that Tang still makes me fart!

Best Wishes Everyone
 
?You?ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon? ? It?s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.?

I think he was talking to "Ben" not sure though.
 
Great thread Bob, sorry I missed a lot of it, feeling under the weather today.
I have a question for my fellow members. Why are we abandoning the shuttle program for another Apollo type program? It would seem to me that if we are going to travel to Mars sometime in the future a lot of supplies would be needed and a revised version of the shuttle would be more suited for that. A lunar lander could be stored the the cargo bay and released from there to land on the moon. Any thoughts on this?
 
Bob Kraemer said:
Great thread Bob, sorry I missed a lot of it, feeling under the weather today.
I have a question for my fellow members. Why are we abandoning the shuttle program for another Apollo type program? It would seem to me that if we are going to travel to Mars sometime in the future a lot of supplies would be needed and a revised version of the shuttle would be more suited for that. A lunar lander could be stored the the cargo bay and released from there to land on the moon. Any thoughts on this?

Apollo technology won't even get us anywhere near Mars. It's like the Mayflower carrying a single picnic basket.
 
M. D. said:
I think he was talking to "Ben" not sure though.


INTERIOR: TATOOINE -- MOS EISLEY -- CANTINA.

Strange creatures play exotic big band music on odd-looking
instruments as Luke, still giddy, downs a fresh drink and
follows Ben and Chewbacca to a booth where Han Solo is
sitting. Han is a tough, roguish starpilot about thirty years
old. A mercenary on a starship, he is simple, sentimental, and
cocksure.

HAN: Han Solo. I'm captain of the Millennium Falcon. Chewie here tells
me you're looking for passage to the Alderaan system.

BEN: Yes, indeed. If it's a fast ship.

HAN: Fast ship? You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?

BEN: Should I have?

HAN: It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than twelve
parsecs!
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Sorry I had to try this. It is Saturday you know.

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That's the worst case of gingivitis I've ever seen... Or is it leprosy?

iwire said:
Yes, that one. ;)

First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?


Now what movie is that from?
"How do you get funding for something like this?"
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?"
 
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480sparky said:
Only Hollywood could turn a measurement of distance into a measurement of time. :mad:
But that is not quite it. Han used the speed of the Millennium Falcon to skirt the edge of a cluster of black holes and shorten the distance of the Kessel run. This proved he had a ship fast enough escape back out of the gravitational pull at the edge of the black hole. This dangerous route allowed him to reduce the distance to less than 12 parsecs.

parsec = 1 pc = 3.0856775854x10^16 m = (6.48/Pi) x10^5 AU = 2.062648x10^5 AU = 3.261633 Ly

It is derived from the English acronym parallax second and is the distance from which one AU would subtend an angle of 1 second of arc (1/3600 of a degree).

1 AU (or UA) = 1.49597870x10^11 m and is approximately the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun.
 
mivey said:
But that is not quite it. Han used the speed of the Millennium Falcon to skirt the edge of a cluster of black holes and shorten the distance of the Kessel run. This proved he had a ship fast enough escape back out of the gravitational pull at the edge of the black hole. This dangerous route allowed him to reduce the distance to less than 12 parsecs.

parsec = 1 pc = 3.0856775854x10^16 m = (6.48/Pi) x10^5 AU = 2.062648x10^5 AU = 3.261633 Ly

It is derived from the English acronym parallax second and is the distance from which one AU would subtend an angle of 1 second of arc (1/3600 of a degree).

1 AU (or UA) = 1.49597870x10^11 m and is approximately the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun.
I could still do it in 11 parsecs.
 
mivey said:
I can make that run before you can bl..there! just ran it..ink an e..zing! just did it again..ye.
Now I know you are not an engineer.
Engineers are not funny and THAT was funny.
Every Engineer I know had that same pickle puss look on thier face like it would crack if they smiled.
Did your wife post that or something??
 
In the movie (Not the books) I'm not sure that Hans was even the pilot, Perhaps Lando was offing a piece of junk to an idiot smuggler to whom he owed a large sum of money.. The ship never made the run under 12 parsecs because ,... well ,..because a parsec is the wrong measurement to be useing ,.. Just look at old Ben's expression after he says it ,.. He knows the ship is old and beat up ,..but it is just the kind of ship one would need to slip into Imperial space and do whatever it is they did. A Jedi master would know how to pick a fast ship,.. he was looking for a ship easily overlooked ,.. see it makes perfect sense:smile:
 
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