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Steve at fivetrees wrote: Talking of lysergics, was Arthur Brown (http://www.godofhellfire.co.uk, one of my sites) well-known in the US in the 60s? At least for that song, yes. |
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On Fri, 28 May 2004 02:03:56 GMT, David Higgins
wrote: Steve at fivetrees wrote: Talking of lysergics, was Arthur Brown (http://www.godofhellfire.co.uk, one of my sites) well-known in the US in the 60s? At least for that song, yes. ....Evenmoreso around Central Texas, as he lived here for a while. Actually met him when I was about 10 or so. Typical hippie back then :-) OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m 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 |
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On Fri, 28 May 2004 00:45:33 GMT, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote: It was shutting it down and watching the screen go to a straight light... then the line collapse to a dot... and then the dot fade away. ....Yep, that was always the fun part, especially if you turned out all the lights. On the B&W floor model my parents gave me in '69 after they'd bought the Color model, the dot could take up to 20 minutes to finally fade out, depending on how long the set had been in operation prior to shutdown. Nowadays, when you shut down the set, it's off in a heatbeat, completely. sigh I miss the golden days of TV in the 60's, when the medium was in transition to color and satellite uplinking was still snowy at best. It seemed more of an adventure and an experiment back then, and it's never been as much fun since about 1972 or thereabouts... OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m 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 |
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On Thu, 27 May 2004 16:12:02 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: Trivia question: Care to guess which model was the first one OM ever had? It's a trick one, I'll warn you... Not a clue....you didn't have a F-107, did you? Mine was a snap-together HO scale radio station IIRC. ....It was two kits, actually. One was a 79 cent Aurora F-101 Voodoo, a plane I still think needs to be forever converted to the Batplane and used as such. The other was the grossly inaccurate Seaview kit, to which my pop later bought the Polaris kit with the removable side hatch so you could see the reactor inside, just so I could see what a *real* sub was all about. Probably was one of the subtle inspirations that had me planning to become an antisocial submariner when I completed NROTC and got my commission. OM -- "No ******* ever won a war by dying for | http://www.io.com/~o_m 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 |
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"Mike Flugennock"
So now, I'm wondering what the generational markers are for those of us who were school kids pre-Mercury Well I was born in '53 and got to follow the space program. An early event that generated a great deal of public interest and amusement was the Echo satellite. I remember spotting this 100 ft mylar balloon more than once. In a sense I would like to see some of the French effort to create visual satellites move forward. The highly visible nature of the Echo was an unintended consequence but the public interest and accessibility to visual observation seemed to come along at just the right time. |
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says... OM wrote: Trivia question: Care to guess which model was the first one OM ever had? It's a trick one, I'll warn you... Not a clue....you didn't have a F-107, did you? Mine was a snap-together HO scale radio station IIRC. I'm sure I had a couple of models when I was really young that I can't recall -- I seem to recall an airplane model that I got glue all over, a *long* time ago. But the first model I can actually remember assembling was called the Atlas Space Station. It was the shell of an Atlas booster, with attached X-20-like taxi spacecraft. The booster had been decked out inside with living quarters, experiment modules, and life support systems, and seemed to support a crew of six or so (if memory serves). It even had an actual portion of the interior included in the model, behind a clear plastic panel. I did a REAL good job on that model -- that's the first one I recall being proud of. I put together the *original* 1/96th Gemini with the landing gear and gear doors. I put together the associated Mercury. I had two different copies of the BIG Gemini model (that was bigger than 1/48th -- ISTR is was more like 1/12th scale). On both I painted and detailed that model such that it looked REALLY realistic. (I mean, I even painted eyebrows on the astronauts before I glued their faceplates down...) I put together the excellent Monogram 1/36th CSM when I was 17, and bought another about 15 years ago that I've never put together. One of these days I'm going to get the resin detailing kits for that model and make one that's REALLY accurate. Doug |
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om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy... _facility.org says... snip ...The other was the grossly inaccurate Seaview kit, to which my pop later bought the Polaris kit with the removable side hatch so you could see the reactor inside, just so I could see what a *real* sub was all about. I remember that! But the one I had was the Skipjack. It had a removable section of hull that showed both the reactor and the missile tubes, IIRC. But I definitely had and built that model. You know, I also had this weird liking for automobile models. Put together a model of a 1933 Cord that was truly exquisite, back when I was 13 or so... Doug |
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om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy... _facility.org says... snip ...I've told this story before, but because my 2nd grade teacher was so anti-Space that she wouldn't let us watch any coverage during class, my parents would pull me out of class to make sure I didn't miss anything. I can remember my junior high school playing audio from the Apollo 7 launch (I was just not able to get out of school for that one). And in my classroom, they did have a B&W TV up front, so we got to see it on the TV and hear it over the PA. Very kewl. But when it came to the later landing missions, I had to just cut school several times to watch the EVA coverage. I stayed home for two days during Apollo 14, one day during Apollo 16 (and that just because the day of EVA-1 was a Friday), and one during Apollo 17 (landing day). My folks supported me and wrote sick notes for me, even though the whole school knew I was staying home to watch the moonwalks, LOL... Doug |
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On 26 May 2004 15:44:50 -0500, "William C. Keel"
wrote: Steve at fivetrees wrote: "Mike Flugennock" wrote in message ... I was born in 1957 -- beat Sputnik off the pad by about 7 months Heh - me too - actually more like 8 months (early Feb '57). Good year, wasn't it? Sure was. I as pre-Sputnik by about two weeks. I was pre-Sputnik, pre-Mike, pre-Steve, and pre-William by about ten years. Ken was pre-Sputnik et al. by sixteen years. Mary -- Mary Shafer Retired aerospace research engineer |
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