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Apr 20 2005, 03:13 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 20-April 05 Member No.: 264 |
I'm a grouchy 28 years old, and an architect in Portland, Oregon. I first got into this whole "space" thing a bit over a decade ago, and at the time I always seemed to be the youngest person around, which was a distressing feeling. I can't say how thrilled I am to be feeling thoroughly middle-aged now!
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Apr 20 2005, 08:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 18-March 05 From: Germany Member No.: 211 |
Wow, what an amazing community I'm 30 years old and a meteorologist at the University of Hannover, Germany. I just finished a project on climate model validation, and I'm now working on air traffic safety.
Though, since more than 20 years I'm deeply interested in astronomy, and, especially, I'm also a member of the local astronomy club and regularly do public presentations on all kinds of astronomy-related topcis to share my enthusiasm with other people. Also, I very much enjoy observing the sky with a telescope and to do astrophotography. I stumbled across this forum just a few weeks ago and I visit it almost every day. So far I'm more of a silent observer. Michael |
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Apr 20 2005, 05:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 688 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Sweden Member No.: 273 |
Umm... I seem to be more or less the senior around here. I'm 57 and work as a software engineer in an aerospace company in Sweden. Have been interested in space since ´way back before Sputnik (Yesss, I remember when it was launched!)
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Apr 21 2005, 08:44 AM
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Rover Driver Group: Members Posts: 1015 Joined: 4-March 04 Member No.: 47 |
no females?
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Apr 21 2005, 11:57 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4279 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
I'm 39, systems engineer currently working on projects for ATC (Air Traffic Control) , 3 children.
My interest in space started reading National Geographic articles about the Voyager and Saturn flyby. What a BIG difference since then, at least in terms of access to information. On those older times you had to wait months just to see some pictures, and now we are able to look what those rovers have done just some ours ago. Greetings from a Brazilian living in Spain. |
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Apr 21 2005, 05:53 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 133 Joined: 29-January 05 Member No.: 161 |
I'm about 13.7 billion years old, sorry i can't be more precise, it's not easy to keep track of all the years. Recently I've spent all my time on the surface of a rocky planet of a normal main-sequence G2 star located near Loop I of the Orion arm in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Apr 21 2005, 06:09 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 21-April 05 Member No.: 332 |
I'm 9020 Days 11 hours 7 minutes and 41 seconds old.
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Apr 21 2005, 06:10 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112 |
QUOTE (cIclops @ Apr 21 2005, 08:53 PM) I'm about 13.7 billion years old, sorry i can't be more precise, it's not easy to keep track of all the years. Does this mean you were a teenager for 1 billion years ? I don't envy you |
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Apr 21 2005, 06:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
QUOTE (john_s @ Apr 19 2005, 07:41 AM) Hey Pete B., was it you I was talking to about this exact topic at LPSC last month? I too got my fiirst good look at the Voyager Jupiter images, including the mind-boggling Io plume pictures, at the 1979 LPSC poster sessions- something I'll never forget. I too am amazed at the wealth of talent on this board- folks with such a wide range of "day jobs" rivaling JPL in their image processing virtuosity. There have been talented amateur astronomers for centuries, but I think the generosity of the Athena team in making their raw data available to the public, and the Cassini project's decision to follow suite, is giving birth to a new breed, right here- the amateur planetary scientist. These are indeed exciting times! John Spencer Hey John, nice to see you on this board!! Anyways, to my bio info, my name is Jason, I'm 21, and I am a Geosciences major at the University of Arizona. I started out working on Io images taken by the SSI camera on Galileo in the later days of that mission. I used to have a website about Io until Fortunecity killed it 4 years ago. I am now work for the ISS imaging team on Cassini, processing Titan images (and occasionally other satellites as well, particularly Enceladus) and producing products for release. I also run a Titan website (that also covers the icy satellites as well) called Titan Today. My main research interest is active geologic processes on outer solar system bodies (as opposed to passive geologic processes like cratering). My favorite is still Io (hense my handle) but Titan and Enceladus are starting to grow on me (and the possibility of active volcanism on Titan...potentially...is really exciting). -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Apr 21 2005, 11:59 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 562 Joined: 29-March 05 Member No.: 221 |
Oh go on then. I'm a 25 year old space nut. Spent my childhood making Satun 5 rocket models. A Molecular and Cellular Biology Graduate, I'm currently working as a production editor on a bunch of STM journals for a large univiersity press and i'm doing an Masters in International Relations. I take a lot of sky photos.
Always with my head in space books, I love the fact I can click on a link to see images of new horizons on the surface of Mars and Titan; and see whole new worlds come into focus courtesy of Cassini and the cometary missions. I really got properly hooked on this new worlds thing with Pathfinder and Sojourner on the internet in 1997 and i've been following all the unmanned space missions ever since. Here is a picture I took of the recent venus transit with my digital camera selotaped to a pair of binoculars and a solar filter. |
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Apr 22 2005, 07:18 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
QUOTE (buddy1475 @ Apr 21 2005, 01:09 PM) Not any more... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Apr 22 2005, 09:27 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 710 Joined: 28-September 04 Member No.: 99 |
QUOTE I used to have a website about Io until Fortunecity killed it 4 years ago. You mean this website? http://members.fortunecity.com/volcanopele/i24.htm Old bookmarks are Fun. Still the only place I know of with the recontructed Galileo I24 images! Great. Anyway, back OT. I'm a 27 year old graduate in computer science from the Netherlands and obsessed with space stuff for as long as I can remember, although Voyager's Neptune flyby took care of the 'with worlds' part. |
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Apr 22 2005, 09:34 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14434 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
QUOTE (ObsessedWithWorlds @ Apr 22 2005, 09:27 AM) QUOTE I used to have a website about Io until Fortunecity killed it 4 years ago. You mean this website? http://members.fortunecity.com/volcanopele/i24.htm Old bookmarks are Fun. Still the only place I know of with the recontructed Galileo I24 images! Great. Anyway, back OT. I'm a 27 year old graduate in computer science from the Netherlands and obsessed with space stuff for as long as I can remember, although Voyager's Neptune flyby took care of the 'with worlds' part. You forgot to mention your day job Transcribing the director reports for us Doug |
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Apr 24 2005, 12:01 AM
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Solar System Cartographer Group: Members Posts: 10231 Joined: 5-April 05 From: Canada Member No.: 227 |
I suppose I ought to add my bit. I'm 53, grew up in England, and I think the oldest space event I recall was John Glenn's Mercury flight. I sat up all night watching live coverage of Apollo 11's EVA (after midnight in the UK). Now I teach cartography and some planetary science at a Canadian university. I've worked on asteroid shape modelling and mapping (data in PDS small bodies node), on locating the VL2 site on Mars, some historical work on lunar studies, and now I'm compiling an atlas of lunar exploration which has taken me to Moscow as well as Houston, Flagstaff and Tucson.
If you are near LPI in Houston, LPL in Tucson or USGS in Flagstaff (as some of you are...) you can see large format prints of my Surveyor pans in the respective data libraries/RPIFs. Flagstaff has the digital data and we will eventually get it out for everybody... but don't hold your breath. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PDF: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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Apr 24 2005, 08:01 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1870 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
For the record, I'm 53 also. I have trace memories of the post-sputnik days, and some real memories of Mercury, but I really started tracking with Gemini and Ranger and Mariner 4. (I wasn't really "sapient" before then....)
My dad was quality control manager at Bell Aircraft (later Aerospace) rocket division. His inspectors signed off on the Lunar Module Ascent Engines, among other things. Oldest brother was a space-nut and he audiotaped live off TV the launch of Ranger *3* (Correspondent Walter Cronkite, reporting from Cape Canaveral) (Too bad the mission was a 95% failure) He also taped John Glenn's first two orbits (off NBC), most of Gemini 3, and the grand finale of Ranger 9: *** LIVE FROM THE MOON ***.... well.. it was approaching the moon... when it arrived, it was turned into shiny metal bits.... I started taping with Gemini 6 and 7, and have continued ever since. Video now. My prize posessions include audio of live coverage of Surveyor 1 landing, the launch of the first Saturn 5.... (My *GOD*, THE BUILDING'S SHAKING... THE BUILDING'S SHAKING HERE!). I've also got a really good stereo recording of the launch of Apollo 16. The two networks (left and right channels) were synchronized (not one through a satellite and the other with landlines), both had outdoor microphones, and neither microphone died HORRIBLY. I processed my first digital image in 1966: colored pencils and the numbers for a corner of Mariner 4's frame 11, published in Scientific American's article on the images. I almost had a PhD doing Mars geology, but it finished me before I finished it and I ended up image processing in industry, and having fun "on the side". |
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