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Old January 6th 18, 11:04 PM posted to sci.space.history
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John Young died yesterday. It is difficult to imagine any other astronaut, past, present or future, having a career as amazing as the life that John Young lived. It was an honor to have known him.

Today, January 6th, marks the first day in human history where there are more deceased moonwalkers than there are living ones. I expect that it will take many many moons for that statistic to turned around. Kind of like Pluto's orbit getting closer than Neptune. You've got to wait an extremely long time for the previous order to go back into place. It will be interesting to see if the number of living moonwalkers reaches zero. That would actually be a very easy prediction to make. I'd put the probability that it won't at less than 1%.

I hope a fitting tribute to John Young gets done. People like Neil Armstrong have a statue. John deserves something big.

~ CT
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Old January 7th 18, 09:43 AM posted to sci.space.history
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On Saturday or thereabouts, Stuf4 declared ...
John Young died yesterday. It is difficult to imagine any other astronaut,
past, present or future, having a career as amazing as the life that John
Young lived. It was an honor to have known him.

Today, January 6th, marks the first day in human history where there are more
deceased moonwalkers than there are living ones. I expect that it will take
many many moons for that statistic to turned around. Kind of like Pluto's
orbit getting closer than Neptune. You've got to wait an extremely long time
for the previous order to go back into place. It will be interesting to see
if the number of living moonwalkers reaches zero. That would actually be a
very easy prediction to make. I'd put the probability that it won't at less
than 1%.

I hope a fitting tribute to John Young gets done. People like Neil Armstrong
have a statue. John deserves something big.

~ CT


You didn't add sci.space.shuttle. Could have been bigger.

/dps

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Old January 7th 18, 01:22 PM posted to sci.space.history,sci.space.shuttle
Jeff Findley[_6_]
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Default John Watts Young, 1930-2018

In article mn.382b7e213fd3557a.127094@snitoo,
says...

On Saturday or thereabouts, Stuf4 declared ...
John Young died yesterday. It is difficult to imagine any other astronaut,
past, present or future, having a career as amazing as the life that John
Young lived. It was an honor to have known him.

Today, January 6th, marks the first day in human history where there are more
deceased moonwalkers than there are living ones. I expect that it will take
many many moons for that statistic to turned around. Kind of like Pluto's
orbit getting closer than Neptune. You've got to wait an extremely long time
for the previous order to go back into place. It will be interesting to see
if the number of living moonwalkers reaches zero. That would actually be a
very easy prediction to make. I'd put the probability that it won't at less
than 1%.

I hope a fitting tribute to John Young gets done. People like Neil Armstrong
have a statue. John deserves something big.

~ CT


You didn't add sci.space.shuttle. Could have been bigger.


Added.

Godspeed John Young.

Jeff
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Old January 12th 18, 01:59 AM posted to sci.space.history
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From Jeff Findley:
In article mn.382b7e213fd3557a.127094@snitoo,
says...

On Saturday or thereabouts, Stuf4 declared ...
John Young died yesterday. It is difficult to imagine any other astronaut,
past, present or future, having a career as amazing as the life that John
Young lived. It was an honor to have known him.

Today, January 6th, marks the first day in human history where there are more
deceased moonwalkers than there are living ones. I expect that it will take
many many moons for that statistic to turned around. Kind of like Pluto's
orbit getting closer than Neptune. You've got to wait an extremely long time
for the previous order to go back into place. It will be interesting to see
if the number of living moonwalkers reaches zero. That would actually be a
very easy prediction to make. I'd put the probability that it won't at less
than 1%.

I hope a fitting tribute to John Young gets done. People like Neil Armstrong
have a statue. John deserves something big.


You didn't add sci.space.shuttle. Could have been bigger.


Added.


Thanks. I have always accessed Usenet via GoogleGroups. Never through a newsreader. And Google has taken steps to degrade the functionality of this service. I expect this was motivated by their desire to drive people away from these forums so they might move to other Google-controlled forums where they can make a buck off you with their ads.

I'm going to have this same problem with a post for Bruce McCandless, so if someone would like to add .shuttle on that too, that would be great. (I could repost as a separate thread, but I'd rather not do that.)

~ CT
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Old January 12th 18, 09:41 PM posted to sci.space.history
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From Jeff Findley:
In article ,
says...

From Jeff Findley:

Thanks. I have always accessed Usenet via GoogleGroups. Never through a
newsreader. And Google has taken steps to degrade the functionality of
this service. I expect this was motivated by their desire to drive people
away from these forums so they might move to other Google-controlled forums
where they can make a buck off you with their ads.


I can also tell because your posts don't limit the width to 80 columns.
Yes, it's a hold over from the "old days" when text terminals were
physically limited to 80 columns in width, but it's still a p.i.t.a. to
have to scroll to the right in a "real newsreader" to read posts that
are formatted this way. :-P

I have been using Eternal September as my (real, free) new server and
MicroPlanet Gravity as my newsreader for years. Free is always good.


Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on my
end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say, a
decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will join
in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers.


Ok, my next post will have the potential to stir the pot. But those who know
me know that I don't let the psychological inertia of others prevent me from
seeking truth.

~ CT
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Old January 13th 18, 10:15 AM posted to sci.space.history
snidely
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Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about:

Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on my
end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say, a
decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will
join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers.


Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam
control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home
computer, and have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so
for at least 2 "New Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except
when somebody makes showing the top-of-post the default instead of
showing the unquoted parts as the default. The "overview" option is
very useful to me, although once you click on an individual post you
are no longer in overview. The efficacy of the search tools sometimes
varies, but if you can find the tick mark on the right side of the
"ordinary" search box, things improve.

/dps

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"I'm glad unicorns don't ever need upgrades."
"We are as up as it is possible to get graded!"
_Phoebe and Her Unicorn_, 2016.05.15
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Old January 13th 18, 10:17 AM posted to sci.space.history
snidely
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Snidely is guilty of mn.684b7e21b1785a20.127094@snitoo as of
1/13/2018 1:15:23 AM
Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about:

Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on
my end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say,
a decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will
join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers.


Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam
control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home computer, and
have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so for at least 2 "New
Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except when somebody makes showing
the top-of-post the default instead of showing the unquoted parts as the
default. The "overview" option is very useful to me, although once you click
on an individual post you are no longer in overview. The efficacy of the
search tools sometimes varies, but if you can find the tick mark on the right
side of the "ordinary" search box, things improve.


Oh, and the native Google Groups I use don't have ads.

(technical forums)

/dps

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"I'm glad unicorns don't ever need upgrades."
"We are as up as it is possible to get graded!"
_Phoebe and Her Unicorn_, 2016.05.15
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Old January 15th 18, 06:15 AM posted to sci.space.history
Stuf4
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From Snidely:
Snidely is guilty of mn.684b7e21b1785a20.127094@snitoo as of
1/13/2018 1:15:23 AM
Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about:

Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on
my end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working, say,
a decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday I will
join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers.


Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam
control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home computer, and
have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so for at least 2 "New
Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except when somebody makes showing
the top-of-post the default instead of showing the unquoted parts as the
default. The "overview" option is very useful to me, although once you click
on an individual post you are no longer in overview. The efficacy of the
search tools sometimes varies, but if you can find the tick mark on the right
side of the "ordinary" search box, things improve.


Oh, and the native Google Groups I use don't have ads.

(technical forums)


Thanks for the info. There are effective ways of controlling spam other than
breaking very useful features. GG broke many of the things that made it
excellent. Like 'view as tree', exacting search, etc.

~ CT
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Old January 15th 18, 09:21 AM posted to sci.space.history
snidely
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Stuf4 noted that:
From Snidely:
Snidely is guilty of mn.684b7e21b1785a20.127094@snitoo as of
1/13/2018 1:15:23 AM
Just this Friday, Stuf4 puzzled about:

Sorry for the column width hassle. I could take care of that manually on
my end. I had been quite impressed with how GoogleGroups was working,
say, a decade ago. Very disappointing what it has become. Maybe someday
I will join in on the real newsreader thing. Thanks for the pointers.

Cross-posting in GG was removed (or at least made difficult) as a spam
control measure, AIUI. I use GG a lot when I'm not at the home computer,
and have since shortly after the Deja News purchase (and so for at least 2
"New Style" rollouts). It works pretty well, except when somebody makes
showing the top-of-post the default instead of showing the unquoted parts
as the default. The "overview" option is very useful to me, although once
you click on an individual post you are no longer in overview. The
efficacy of the search tools sometimes varies, but if you can find the
tick mark on the right side of the "ordinary" search box, things improve.


Oh, and the native Google Groups I use don't have ads.

(technical forums)


Thanks for the info. There are effective ways of controlling spam other than
breaking very useful features. GG broke many of the things that made it
excellent. Like 'view as tree', exacting search, etc.


View as a tree is still there. The advanced search options usually
)(but not always) work well. There is debate even among users of "true
newsreaders" as to whether cross-posting is civilized behavior or not
(my answer: "it depends", and local custom is important).

/dps

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but ask calmly, how does this person feel about in in his cooler
moments next day, with six or seven thousand feet of snow and stuff on
top of him?"
_Roughing It_, Mark Twain.
 




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