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Offline JohnnyReb

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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #25 on: July 21, 2009, 01:00:43 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on July 20, 2009, 05:07:53 PM
Cool photo of the Moon. We should be on Mars and beyond by now.

Absolutely.....I was in high school when Al Shepard, John Glenn and the rest made their first flights. The X-15 was setting records. I read every "Space" book of science fiction they had in the library and all of the "real" stuff too. I remember thinking, "Surely by the year 2000, we'll be on mars." I remember thinking, "I'll be 55 then but if I make it, it'll be worth the wait."

Well, we're past 2000 and I've made it past 55 but we seem to be farther from Mars now than we were then. 
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #26 on: July 21, 2009, 04:38:13 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on July 21, 2009, 01:00:43 PM
Absolutely.....I was in high school when Al Shepard, John Glenn and the rest made their first flights. The X-15 was setting records. I read every "Space" book of science fiction they had in the library and all of the "real" stuff too. I remember thinking, "Surely by the year 2000, we'll be on mars." I remember thinking, "I'll be 55 then but if I make it, it'll be worth the wait."

Well, we're past 2000 and I've made it past 55 but we seem to be farther from Mars now than we were then. 

I have many space exploration books and they talked about space stations in the 1990s and we would be in Mars by this decade.
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #27 on: July 21, 2009, 04:42:56 PM »
And we were all supposed to have flying cars by now too. :(
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #28 on: July 21, 2009, 04:52:56 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on July 21, 2009, 04:42:56 PM
And we were all supposed to have flying cars by now too. :(

The bunnies are inhibiting technological development. They don't want humans to go to Mars because they don't want to be exposed.
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #29 on: July 22, 2009, 03:05:44 AM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on July 21, 2009, 04:52:56 PM
The bunnies are inhibiting technological development. They don't want humans to go to Mars because they don't want to be exposed.

I'm going to regret this later, but how would humans going to Mars expose the bunnies as anything?  Are there bunnies on Mars or something?
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #30 on: July 22, 2009, 07:11:32 AM »
Quote from: docstew on July 22, 2009, 03:05:44 AM
I'm going to regret this later, but how would humans going to Mars expose the bunnies as anything?  Are there bunnies on Mars or something?
Here's info on their origin:  The Constellation Lepus:

Lepus, the Hare, was one of the animals that the great hunter Orion most delighted in pursuing. Lepus was thus honored a place among the stars. Crouching low on the horizon., The Hare tries to remain unnoticed as it endlessly attempts to escape Orion's attention and attack, Through the legend of Lepus, the timid hare is seen fleeing before Orion as The Hunter is poised to attack the onrushing bull, Taurus. Meanwhile, the fierce monster of the deep, Cetus the Whale, eagerly seeks any prey that he may savagely devour, and The Champion, Perseus, with drawn sword, stands ever ready to join in mortal combat. 

THE HARE

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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #31 on: July 22, 2009, 08:22:01 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on July 21, 2009, 11:46:45 AM
More obfuscation. You trolls are particularly bad at staying on topic, aren't you?




Who is the obfuscater here? YOU brought up the subject, not me.
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #32 on: July 22, 2009, 10:35:16 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on July 21, 2009, 04:42:56 PM
And we were all supposed to have flying cars by now too. :(

Actually we did....back in the late 50's, early 60's a flying car was marketed (if I recall correctly), and it failed..........It was a lousy airplane, and an even worse car.......but it did actually work.

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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #33 on: July 22, 2009, 02:06:57 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on July 22, 2009, 10:35:16 AM
Actually we did....back in the late 50's, early 60's a flying car was marketed (if I recall correctly), and it failed..........It was a lousy airplane, and an even worse car.......but it did actually work.

doc

There were also hovercars (with all the limitations of GEVs we have learned of since), and an experimental military car-like vehicle with big ducted fans fore and aft (with modern fly-by-wire tech and a modern turbine, that one might actually be mede to work decently nowadays).
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #34 on: July 22, 2009, 04:56:33 PM »
Flying cars?.....wasn't there a kit to attach wings etc. to a ford Maverick or pinto?
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #35 on: July 22, 2009, 06:15:19 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on July 22, 2009, 04:56:33 PM
Flying cars?.....wasn't there a kit to attach wings etc. to a ford Maverick or pinto?

I think the Japanese bought all the kits for the Pinto in WWII.  :uhsure:
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #36 on: July 24, 2009, 11:56:25 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on July 22, 2009, 06:15:19 PM
I think the Japanese bought all the kits for the Pinto in WWII.  :uhsure:

Yep, they called it a zero! There are none left though, we shot 'em all to pieces!
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #37 on: July 24, 2009, 12:59:51 PM »
I want my jetpack first!!!!! :-)

This thread reminds me of a Jaywalking segment on Leno :rofl:
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Re: NASA Photos Of Apollo Landing Sites
« Reply #38 on: July 24, 2009, 03:44:20 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on July 24, 2009, 11:56:25 AM
Yep, they called it a zero! There are none left though, we shot 'em all to pieces!

Actually the Zero was one hell of a fighter in its later permutations.......my father flew Corsairs (F4-U) in the Pacific during WW II, and there are a lot of his shipmates/wingmen that did not come home due to the Zero-sen.......

Please be more cautious when evaluating our former enemy's combat equipment......some of it wasn't up to snuff, but the Zero wasn't one of them.....

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