Cheesy Moon Page launched (no - NOT a troll)

OM wrote:
On 20 Feb 2006 11:24:10 -0800, "kvant" wrote:

I have just launched a very special website supposed to collect some
dated space artwork as well as real photos which did not make it to the
net and are gradually lost in rotting paper oblivion as we speak.
Please take a look he

http://www.geocities.com/karolp2/

...You'd have a lot more credibility if you didn't have Geo****ties as
a host.

Any host is good for starters as most viruses would probably tell you
;-) But I am not a virus nor do I intend to harm anyone. And I do
realise the geo****ty quota is only 15 MB and it would not be possible
to put a whole gallery of hi res scans there. Over time, I was planning
to convert to some low-res versions as I ran out of quota and then
start supplying the complete full-grown collection on a nice CD
available on demand. I only intend to preserve some thought-provoking
graphics and imagery which would be eventually lost on paper rotting
away in the attic if not properly archived. I do not think many 1960s
Newsweek covers or things of that sort will make it to the next
decade...

kvant wrote:
And quoting my whole post leaving it without any comments is... good?
bad? newsreader malfunction?

Neither. Rod just had too much Rebel Yell last night!

:-)

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wa2ise wrote:
Take a look at my page
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/space/spcards.htm and
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/space/sp1-88.html for some
exceptionally cheesey space art. Back in the late 50's the Topps
trading card company put out a set of "Space Cards". Lots of cheese.



Thanks! Fun to see. I particularly like the one where they are
intercepting a comet .. from behind!


But how else would you do it? Head-on is OK for a flyby but otherwise
you'll end up like a bug on a windscreen. Anyway, going out from the Sun
the tail leads the head.
And the lunar mists aren't as far-fetched as you might think. Hal
Clement published his story "Dust Rag" in 1956, and the idea has
recently been revived. That could be electrostatically levitated dust.

Jonathan Silverlight wrote:
In message , Phil Wheeler
writes

wa2ise wrote:

Take a look at my page
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/space/spcards.htm and
http://www.geocities.com/wa2ise/space/sp1-88.html for some
exceptionally cheesey space art. Back in the late 50's the Topps
trading card company put out a set of "Space Cards". Lots of cheese.



Thanks! Fun to see. I particularly like the one where they are
intercepting a comet .. from behind!


But how else would you do it? Head-on is OK for a flyby but otherwise
you'll end up like a bug on a windscreen. Anyway, going out from the Sun
the tail leads the head.

Good point

And the lunar mists aren't as far-fetched as you might think. Hal
Clement published his story "Dust Rag" in 1956, and the idea has
recently been revived. That could be electrostatically levitated dust.

Not my original comment, but still sounds far-fetched to me.

Phil

Yowsa - that's quite an ambitious project. This could end up being a
massive site, and I'd recommend from the get-go to start using
thumbnails. After a while, the pages will take an enourmous amount of
time and bandwidth to load.

As for lunar mists... Has the Transient Lunar Phenomenon (TLP) been
proven to be balderdash? Could a mist be the result of outgassing?
Could enough of an impacted comet survive to provide a delayed burp?

But the depiction does have a rather dense look to it. I'm not sure
when these were made, but judging by the look of the rockets, I think
they made pretty good guesses without having had any real experience
yet.

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SkySea wrote:
Yowsa - that's quite an ambitious project. This could end up being a
massive site, and I'd recommend from the get-go to start using
thumbnails. After a while, the pages will take an enourmous amount of
time and bandwidth to load.

That's why I am planning to make it available on a CD with a quota of
700 megs ;-) But the number of submissions is currently zero and the
"baby" won't grow without them... Thanks for the link to the space
cards, I enjoyed them too but I intend to display some things that were
hidden from daylight in rotting piles of old mags in the attic and such
and not copy material that is already available elsewhere :-) So I am
still waiting for the first submission to arrive. I will switch to
thumbnails as soon as I run out of quota but I suppose the first few
will be available in all their glory until then.

SkySea wrote:

But the depiction does have a rather dense look to it. I'm not sure
when these were made, but judging by the look of the rockets, I think
they made pretty good guesses without having had any real experience
yet.


Mustard gas from the lunarians, repeling the attack from Earth

kvant wrote:
I have just launched a very special website supposed to collect some
dated space artwork as well as real photos which did not make it to the
net and are gradually lost in rotting paper oblivion as we speak.
Please take a look he

http://www.geocities.com/karolp2/

I would be in heaven if it actually worked and the first submissions
appeared in my mailbox...

Regards,

Karol P.

It would be hard to get more cheesey than this NASA pictu

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...7-72-H-314.jpg

;-)

Rusty

On 22 Feb 2006 10:46:21 -0800, "Rusty"
wrote:

It would be hard to get more cheesey than this NASA pictu

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...7-72-H-314.jpg

"Three Dog Night visits NASA"

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Rusty wrote:
kvant wrote:

I have just launched a very special website supposed to collect some
dated space artwork as well as real photos which did not make it to the
net and are gradually lost in rotting paper oblivion as we speak.
Please take a look he

http://www.geocities.com/karolp2/

I would be in heaven if it actually worked and the first submissions
appeared in my mailbox...

Regards,

Karol P.


It would be hard to get more cheesey than this NASA pictu

http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/Hi...7-72-H-314.jpg

Oh, jeezus, I remember this one! D'ah ha hah!

That's not so much cheesy as somehow subtly absurd.
It looks like it could be the cover of a Devo album.

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