in 1984, astronaut Bruce McCandless II was further out than anyone had ever been before. He was about 100 meters from the shuttle's cargo bay. I WANT TO GO DAMNIT

I'll be honest, If I went into space and it wasn't like 2001: A Space Oddyssey, I'd probably be dissappointed.

I used to have this mural on my wall when I was a kid:


I've always been a space geek.

lucky bastard!

I had the big Space Shuttle NASA poster (the original one that folded-out). Also, I used to have a bunch of NASA color placards that had relevant info on the reverse.

did anyone here about the BIG HOLE IN SPACE found recentley? supposedley and blank spot in space was found with nothing in it, not even dark matter or something (i dont know much).
just go to google and type in, big hole in space, and you can read about it

yeah charles. they have been doing a large scale map of the visible universe, to find out about the spread of matter in the universe and they found a gigantic (by our standards) area of space where there is noting, no intergalactic dust, no stars, not nothing! it was bound to happen but noone expected an area that large!

it is bigger than kirstie alley's butthole!

HA!

my dad has that exact mural in the unopened box with cellophane still intact. his favorite album when i was growing up was:






it has excerpts of the JFK speech "by the time this decade is out..." and the radio transmissions from the launch, landing and re-entry.

he worked for GE Aerospace and Martin Marietta (later Lockheed Martin) building these for the Air Force:






...beat that for space geekery.

Whoa, what's with the space -related threads? a lot of them.

When I was a little kid, astronomy and dinosaurs were the two most coolest things ever. Thus, I still read news regarding the aforementioned.

I hope Eta Carinae will exlplode as a massive hypernova during our lifetime.

when I was really young, my dad's best friend worked at JPL.

I got to go visit.




....I'm jealous of yr dad. :(

so this is not a thread about space anymore but about people's dads!

It's the Rift!


There's a rift out in space, and it could be the door, but you know I'm not sure.

If you go through the rift to the palace of ice - might it be nice - is it, paradise.

I'm the commander of time in my vessel of God - I go through the rift to the palace of ice.

We may never come back from the palace of ice because the rift is a door.

yes, i had an overwhelming compulsion to inform floatingslowly that my dad could kick his dad's ass.

you have a problem with that?

like this?



i have no problem, i just didn't know what to post anymore.

my dad is bigger than your dad. :p

yes, exactly like that.