Go/No-Go "round the room" final checks by Flight

Bruce Palmer wrote:

I think they had it in their mandate to dumb down everything so Joe
Taxpayer could get an idea of what was going on just by tuning in for a
couple of minutes during a mission.


On a refreshingly down-to-earth note, I just got my SpaceDev Corporation
newsletter; which proudly states that the motor for Spaceship One "burns
rubber (HTPB) and laughing gas (N2O)". It does not state if the rubber
for the fuel element is cast in the form of a giant plucked chicken, to
make it more compatible with the laughing gas.




PAO: "Liftoff! We have liftoff of the Space Shuttle Whatever on a
12-day mission to blah blah blah."

It makes me gag everytime I hear it. They must actually pay someone to
dumb down the mission descriptions. I wonder how much NASA would save
by eliminating the Public Affairs Ofice and staff?


"And they ate Sir Robin's minstrels....and there was great rejoicing."

Would there be any
significant downside to that?


Fewer breathless descriptions of what the inanimate carbon rod is doing
at any given moment?

Pat

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Bruce Palmer wrote:

It makes me gag everytime I hear it. They must actually pay someone to
dumb down the mission descriptions. I wonder how much NASA would save
by eliminating the Public Affairs Ofice and staff?


"And they ate Sir Robin's minstrels....and there was great rejoicing."

OK, it's easy to look up using Google. But did you just _remember_ that?
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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:14:01 +0100, Jonathan Silverlight
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In message , Pat Flannery
writes


Bruce Palmer wrote:

It makes me gag everytime I hear it. They must actually pay someone to
dumb down the mission descriptions. I wonder how much NASA would save
by eliminating the Public Affairs Ofice and staff?


"And they ate Sir Robin's minstrels....and there was great rejoicing."

OK, it's easy to look up using Google. But did you just _remember_ that?

"And the Abombinable Snowmen ate scott grissom and his bimbo apologist
minstrel. And there was much rejoicing...until the poor Snowmen died
of food poisoning..."

OM

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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:44:40 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

On a refreshingly down-to-earth note, I just got my SpaceDev Corporation
newsletter; which proudly states that the motor for Spaceship One "burns
rubber (HTPB) and laughing gas (N2O)". It does not state if the rubber
for the fuel element is cast in the form of a giant plucked chicken, to
make it more compatible with the laughing gas.

....Pat, I'm having to break out my emergency vicodin right now. Why?
Because I've laughed so hard at this one that I *might* have bruised a
rib from the resulting hiccups.

Remind me to sue you over this one...

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

On 2004-06-14, Sam Seiber wrote:
Bruce Palmer wrote:
PAO: "Liftoff! We have liftoff of the Space Shuttle Whatever on a
12-day mission to blah blah blah."

That would be a 12-day *historic* mission. All missions are now
*historic*. Me thinks they kind of overuse that word.

I remember this coming up during STS-107; that flight turned out to be a
little more historic than we wanted, but here are some notes I made at
the time:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...psoc.dur.ac.uk

(I had an updated version, but can't find it)

Suggestions to fill the gaps are appreciated.

--
-Andrew Gray

Pat Flannery wrote:

On a refreshingly down-to-earth note, I just got my SpaceDev Corporation
newsletter; which proudly states that the motor for Spaceship One "burns
rubber (HTPB) and laughing gas (N2O)". It does not state if the rubber
for the fuel element is cast in the form of a giant plucked chicken, to
make it more compatible with the laughing gas.

Good grief. A chicken?! Where did you get that ridiculous idea?


It's in the form of a whoopee cushion.

Paul

Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


"And they ate Sir Robin's minstrels....and there was great rejoicing."


OK, it's easy to look up using Google. But did you just _remember_ that?


Yes...with lots of other lines from that and a lot of other
movies....which really gets on my friends nerves when I start doing my
Katherine Hepburn impersonation from "The Lion In Winter"....but I'm
closer in character to Peter Ustinov out of "Spartacus" ...I'm a
civilian; in fact I'm more of a civilian than most civilians...

Pat

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 02:47:00 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

....but I'm closer in character to Peter Ustinov out of "Spartacus"

....Which means the *next* time we get into the "I'm Spartacus!" chain
posting, you'd better state that you're Lentulus Batiatus.

Or should that be Patiatus?


OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr

OM wrote:

...Which means the *next* time we get into the "I'm Spartacus!" chain
posting, you'd better state that you're Lentulus Batiatus.

Or should that be Patiatus?


Since I tend toward corpulence, and am reasonable, pleasant, and
phlegmatic*, may be I should go with Grachus

Pat

* Hayfever really helps with this aspect of my personality, by the way.

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 16:13:09 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

OM wrote:

...Which means the *next* time we get into the "I'm Spartacus!" chain
posting, you'd better state that you're Lentulus Batiatus.

Or should that be Patiatus?

Since I tend toward corpulence, and am reasonable, pleasant, and
phlegmatic*, may be I should go with Grachus

....No, sorry, you get Batiatus. I claimed Grachus a long time ago, as
we both share the same tastes in servants. And what's really
interesting about that particular Roman senator is that, according to
what records do survive from that era, he really *did* have quite a
harem of sorts, and by those same accounts he a) freed them all after
buying them, b) they stayed as his "slaves" on their own accord, every
single one of them, c) never forced himself upon his harem, and loved
them all equally enough to where d) he wound up with at least thirty
children by them who, while not heirs to his fortunes, were at least
born as free Roman citizens by his own accord.

I want to be this guy when I grow up :-)

OM

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his country. He won it by making the other | Sergeant-At-Arms
poor dumb ******* die for his country." | Human O-Ring Society

- General George S. Patton, Jr