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Registered: November 19, 2005
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Have you ever seen a spacecraft launch? I did last week.
Pluto got Plutoed.
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Registered: January 15, 2006
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I saw one on TV.
And I would never feel pain / and never be without pleasure, ever, again / and if the reign stops, and everything's dry, he would cry just so I could drink the tears from his eyes...
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Registered: March 08, 2004
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When I was a wee ten-year-old, I got to see the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn go up in Cape Canaveral. My dad has spent most of my lifetime as one of the research scientists working on the Huygens probe. It was really a once-in-a-lifetime experience. A bunch of plutonium was required for the launch, and the more paranoid Floridians were terrified of an accident. The controversy even ended up on 60 Minutes. It didn't launch on its scheduled date due to poor weather conditions, so everyone had to get up in the middle of the night and wait for it to go up a second time. Over seven years later, it arrived.
And then, as the books were told, Fina replied: "A can of worms, my dear friend? What has this to do with reason?"
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Registered: February 22, 2004
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I saw a Space Shuttle launch a few years back, I think it was Endevour I know an astronaut actually, Col Carlos Noriegas (USMC)
"The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done"."
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Registered: November 19, 2005
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Registered: November 19, 2005
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quote: Originally posted by scienceandhistorynut:
No I wish I could though. I have only seen it on tv. What was it like?
I was on a boat with my dad when I saw it take off. There was a lot of smoke from it that stayed in the same position and didn't seem to move after it came from the spacecraft. They sent a teacher to space on it.
Pluto got Plutoed.
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Registered: May 18, 2006
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No I haven't, but it would be so cool to see.
It must be lovely to wake up in the morning and understand everything.
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Registered: February 25, 2007
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No I wish I could though. I have only seen it on tv. What was it like?
"With regard to exellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it."-Aristotle
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Registered: May 07, 2003
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I've watched shuttles take off on TV. I also took a carpet cleaning appointment for an astronaut; he has a summer home in Michigan. I was so impressed...
"Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead
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