When We Left Earth

GPK · #1 06-21-2008, 10:26 PM

NASA chronicles the Apollo missions.

Anyone happen to catch this on The Discovery Channel? Fascinates me to no end.

Scav · #2 06-21-2008, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

NASA chronicles the Apollo missions.

Anyone happen to catch this on The Discovery Channel? Fascinates me to no end.

whoa...that is sickly right now, I am watching it also

I only learned about this stuff in a page or two in a history book, so this more indepth stuff is pretty wild.

GPK · #3 06-21-2008, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Scav

whoa...that is sickly right now, I am watching it also

I only learned about this stuff in a page or two in a history book, so this more indepth stuff is pretty wild.

If I heard correctly, they said Apollo 8 burned 20 TONS of fuel per second during thrust.

#4 06-21-2008, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

NASA chronicles the Apollo missions.

Anyone happen to catch this on The Discovery Channel? Fascinates me to no end.

I like it.
Sorry I just took you down a notch.
Shsh. Cant be interested in other stuff)

The also liked the Mercury stuff also.
Some of the stuff that happens that one
never hears about is quite interesting.

GPK · #5 06-21-2008, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by pgardn

I like it.
Sorry I just took you down a notch.
Shsh. Cant be interested in other stuff)

The also liked the Mercury stuff also.
Some of the stuff that happens that one
never hears about is quite interesting.

Didn't take me down a notch at all Pat. I love Discovery Channel. My favorite program is Deadliest Catch...watching those dudes out there in the Bering Sea pulling crab pots. Hard ass work...but they can make some serious cash in a few weeks time.

Scav · #6 06-21-2008, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

If I heard correctly, they said Apollo 8 burned 20 TONS of fuel per second during thrust.

UFC is on now, about a 15 second attention span

#7 06-21-2008, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

If I heard correctly, they said Apollo 8 burned 20 TONS of fuel per second during thrust.

Earth is a bi tch. Tugs pretty hard when you are close.

But imagine being on an asteroid small enough to walk on,
but if you jumped up with enough force you would be off and away.
Liftoff by jumping, that would be cool.

GPK · #8 06-21-2008, 10:42 PM

Just boggles me...the guts these astronauts had to have. To know where they were traveling to, but yet if the slightest thing goes wrong or is miscalculated, they don't make it back.

#9 06-21-2008, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

Didn't take me down a notch at all Pat. I love Discovery Channel. My favorite program is Deadliest Catch...watching those dudes out there in the Bering Sea pulling crab pots. Hard ass work...but they can make some serious cash in a few weeks time.

I like that also. I would last about 10 minutes on one of those boats.

Danzig · #10 06-21-2008, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

Didn't take me down a notch at all Pat. I love Discovery Channel. My favorite program is Deadliest Catch...watching those dudes out there in the Bering Sea pulling crab pots. Hard ass work...but they can make some serious cash in a few weeks time.

i'm a discovery/deadliest catch fan too...we were talking about this show on another thread-those guys who went up way back when were nuts. those spaceships might have seemed state of the art, but they look awfully flimsy from here!

poor gus grissom, 30 seconds and three astronauts were gone. had he not gotten killed, no one would probably know who neil armstrong was.

Danzig · #11 06-21-2008, 10:47 PM

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I like that also. I would last about 10 minutes on one of those boats.

edgar's my favorite!

#12 06-21-2008, 10:52 PM

Those guys stay up over 24 hours sometimes, lifting all
that crap exposed to all that cold. I would make
a mistake and become crab food.

No way I come out alive.

GPK · #13 06-21-2008, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by pgardn

I like that also. I would last about 10 minutes on one of those boats.

I would like to try that job one time...and only one time. Definitely not during the winter season though.

Danzig · #14 06-21-2008, 10:56 PM

just read that they confirmed yesterday that there is ice on mars. neat!

#15 06-21-2008, 11:19 PM

Pillow posted the pictures of the ice sublimating on the other thread.
The Mars thread.

Danzig · #16 06-22-2008, 01:22 AM

that thread seems to have fallen victim....oh well!

Bigsmc · #17 06-22-2008, 08:37 AM

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edgar's my favorite!

I like Phil's kids (can't remember either's name right now). They crack me up when they tweak their Dad.

ddthetide · #18 06-22-2008, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by GPK

Didn't take me down a notch at all Pat. I love Discovery Channel. My favorite program is Deadliest Catch...watching those dudes out there in the Bering Sea pulling crab pots. Hard ass work...but they can make some serious cash in a few weeks time.

we TRY not to miss Deadliest Catch on tuesdays !

TheSpyder · #19 06-22-2008, 09:30 AM

Add me to the list...awesome show. Makes me love my couch. I also like the show about truckers that drive across the ice during the winter. That was scary as h*ll. I forget where it was but they showed where the ice actually is moving back and forth as they go and sometimes they break through. The most amazing part was how they pull a full truck out of the ice.

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we TRY not to miss Deadliest Catch on tuesdays !

Mortimer · #20 06-22-2008, 10:39 AM

We would like to see a show called 'Ways To Kill Hossy."

Signed,

Phil

and Ethel

Garden