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Old February 4th 07, 04:11 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
Scott Hedrick
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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"Okay, I can stick the $200,000 into the spaceflight...or I can buy a
Lamborghini Gallardo for $175,000:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Gallardo


The car will get you laid faster than a ticket stub for a suborbital flight.



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Old February 4th 07, 04:21 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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I thought the whole flight was fascinating, and the view wonderful; but I
can guarantee you I don't remember it anywhere near as much as that time I
was up in the Bridger Range of mountains near Bozeman, Montana all on my
own, and hyperventilated to the point where I almost fell off the mountain
because of my senses getting muddled and unconsciousness setting in.
That was memorable, because if things had gone just a little differently,
it would have been all over.


Well, gee, Pat, *I* almost lost it at the Grand Canyon because of a poor
choice in picking the rock to put my weight on.


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Old February 4th 07, 04:24 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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True, but how did Alan Shepherd feel about his suborbital flight? He

certainly didn't drop out of NASA after it was over.


*He* didn't write a check for $200,000 for the ride.


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Old February 4th 07, 04:25 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message
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And $200K doesn't and won't buy you a "walk up, here's my black American
Express Card" climb aboard flight.

It gets you the "training", the flight jacket, the "My granddad flew on
SS-2 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" etc. In short, you're not
buying 5 minutes of weightlessness, you're buying the whole experience.


Go to Recall and get the same thing for $500.


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Old February 4th 07, 07:43 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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Scott Hedrick wrote:
I thought the whole flight was fascinating, and the view wonderful; but I
can guarantee you I don't remember it anywhere near as much as that time I
was up in the Bridger Range of mountains near Bozeman, Montana all on my
own, and hyperventilated to the point where I almost fell off the mountain
because of my senses getting muddled and unconsciousness setting in.
That was memorable, because if things had gone just a little differently,
it would have been all over.


Well, gee, Pat, *I* almost lost it at the Grand Canyon because of a poor
choice in picking the rock to put my weight on.


Don't you just hate it when they start moving? We've got a earth-fill
dam just north of town, and you'd really think that all the boulders on
the water side would have achieved some angle of repose after thirty
years... but no... they just sit there as precariously balanced as they
were on day one, and then you step on a odd-shaped multi-ton piece of
granite, hear the grinding noise under your feet as it does a
teeter-totter on you, and start heading downhill.
At least in the Bridger Range two hummingbirds came flying out of the
tree range near me, hovered a foot or so in front of my face giving me
the once-over, and then flew off as I sat in a wobbly super-oxygenated
state thinking "I'm going to fall off the mountain now, aren't I? Okay,
I can deal with this... it's just my karma, isn't it?".
I just thought it was odd and funny, but new-age vision quests have been
made out of far less substantial things. :-)

Pat
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Old February 4th 07, 04:45 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Well, gee, Pat, *I* almost lost it at the Grand Canyon because of a poor
choice in picking the rock to put my weight on.


Don't you just hate it when they start moving?


It was a Wile E. Coyote moment, I tell ya, especially since that same rock
held me fine on the way down.

My wife won't let me climb rocks anymore. Ropes are for pussies.


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Old February 4th 07, 09:52 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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Scott Hedrick wrote:
Don't you just hate it when they start moving?


It was a Wile E. Coyote moment, I tell ya, especially since that same rock
held me fine on the way down.


This is a fun website BTW: http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html

Pat
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Old February 5th 07, 05:05 AM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Scott Hedrick wrote:
Don't you just hate it when they start moving?


It was a Wile E. Coyote moment, I tell ya, especially since that same
rock held me fine on the way down.


This is a fun website BTW:
http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html


I wasn't scared as I fell. It's nothing macho, I was just too busy digging
my fingers into the rock racing by.


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Old February 5th 07, 08:35 AM posted to sci.space.history
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"Scott Hedrick" wrote in message
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I wasn't scared as I fell.


Quite right. As you know it's not the fall that does you in :-) Well, it can
if the Q is high enough ...


  #280  
Old February 5th 07, 12:02 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.policy
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Scott Hedrick wrote:
I wasn't scared as I fell. It's nothing macho, I was just too busy digging
my fingers into the rock racing by.


Sounds like me and the butte by Bismarck.
It was a big "badlands" type formation (not rock, but extremely hard
dirt, like dried adobe) and had a pretty vertical face where a road had
been cut through it.
So I had the brilliant idea that it would be very easy to climb; all I
had to do was cut hand and footholds in it with my geologic hammer and I
could scurry right up it. This worked like a charm, and soon I was on top.
Only one problem...once on top, there was no way to see where those hand
and footholds were when it was time to go over the edge and start back down.
So I decided to go down the side which was inclined at around 45 degrees
and covered with small loose pebbles.
....which is where I started sliding down the side at a ever increasing
rate until I arrived in the pile of cacti at the bottom, which drove
their needles through the sides of my tennis shoes, effectively nailing
them to my feet.
As I looked down at my shoes, and realized I was going to have to take
them off, I suspected that this was going to be a bit painful to do. I
was not to be disappointed in that regard. :-)


Pat
 




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