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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GRUNHERZ on June 02, 2004, 12:33:16 PM
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Here we go! :)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/02/private.space/index.html
(http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/TECH/space/06/02/private.space/story.private.rocket.jpg)
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I'm convinced that Burt Rutan is Zefram Cochran.
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Originally posted by gofaster
I'm convinced that Burt Rutan is Zefram Cochran.
Nerd
-Sik
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I think I'm going to go get the RV out of storage and clean her up for a trip to Mojave. This looks too cool to miss.
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Originally posted by Sikboy
Nerd
-Sik
LOL! Did you have to look that reference up on the Internet or did you recognize it off the top of your head?
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I know I did... now I want to drink lots and lots of liqour and listen to Magic Carpet Ride.
-SW
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Awsome!
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Originally posted by Chairboy
I think I'm going to go get the RV out of storage and clean her up for a trip to Mojave. This looks too cool to miss.
Now there is an idea! :) I might go too. :)
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Originally posted by gofaster
I'm convinced that Burt Rutan is Zefram Cochran.
It's actually Zephram Cochrane.
Daniel (uber-nerd)
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Originally posted by gofaster
I'm convinced that Burt Rutan is Zefram Cochran.
Maybe more like Otto Lilienthal...
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Originally posted by CyranoAH
It's actually Zephram Cochrane.
Daniel (uber-nerd)
Was it this one:
(http://members.cox.net/mokwella/original/cochrn2.jpg)
or this one:
(http://guilds.outpost10f.com/~poetry/contest/july00/images/zefram1.jpg)
:D
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Well, he gets to look young again (photo 1) because of the effects of the 'Companion', the alien blob energy being that turns into a chick.
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Isn't that the ship astronaut Steve Austin crashed in.....
Tronsky
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Originally posted by -tronski-
Isn't that the ship astronaut Steve Austin crashed in.....
Tronsky
nothing good to say?
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Any tickets for sale yet? :)
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Originally posted by NUKE
nothing good to say?
What...you'd prefer I didn't like the six million dollar man?
Tronsky
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Originally posted by -tronski-
What...you'd prefer I didn't like the six million dollar man?
Tronsky
still nothing good to say.
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Originally posted by NUKE
still nothing good to say.
hrmmmm...kinda like yourself really...
still....perhaps I should've got involved in a better looking startrek character discussion instead :rolleyes:
Tronsky
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Originally posted by -tronski-
hrmmmm...kinda like yourself really...
still....perhaps I should've got involved in a better looking startrek character discussion instead :rolleyes:
Tronsky
whatever the hell that means.....
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We're screwed now... after we light that thing the Vulcans will be all over us.
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Funded by Paul Allen, Microshaft co-founder.........Starbucks on the moon within 10 years guaranteed
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Originally posted by snapperhead
Funded by Paul Allen, Microshaft co-founder.........Starbucks on the moon within 10 years guaranteed
Paul Allen = Richard Daystrom?
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Originally posted by -tronski-
Isn't that the ship astronaut Steve Austin crashed in.....
Tronsky
Actually, the aircraft type shown in the crash they used in the opening sequence of the "Six Million Dollar Man" is hanging in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. The aircraft was launched from the belly of a B-29 (I think, maybe a B-52 instead) as part of an experiment in lifting bodies. The aircraft hanging in the museum is not the actual one that crashed, but one just like it that was used in the project. It is very, very small. No wonder it tumbled so much on the ground!
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Originally posted by -tronski-
still....perhaps I should've got involved in a better looking startrek character discussion instead :rolleyes:
Tronsky
Lol.
-Sik
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Originally posted by gofaster
LOL! Did you have to look that reference up on the Internet or did you recognize it off the top of your head?
I wish I could say that I had to look it up. At least it took me a minute to figure it out :p
-Sik
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The project is being funded by Paul Allen, founder and chairman of Vulcan, Inc. !
WOW! O WOW! That's just too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence! VULCAN, INC.!
Is it possible that Roddenberry could have been trying to tell us something in his tv series all those years ago???
Could he have possibly been a...been a...
O WOW!!!
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I think it have to be Voss :D
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Originally posted by Shuckins
The project is being funded by Paul Allen, founder and chairman of Vulcan, Inc. !
WOW! O WOW! That's just too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence! VULCAN, INC.!
Is it possible that Roddenberry could have been trying to tell us something in his tv series all those years ago???
Could he have possibly been a...been a...
O WOW!!!
Gene Roddenberry = Hari Seldon
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Originally posted by Sikboy
I wish I could say that I had to look it up. At least it took me a minute to figure it out :p
-Sik
Well I had to look it up. I knew I wanted the name of the warp engine inventor and at first I wanted to say Daystrom, then I remembered the episode with the M5 and that he was the computer guy, not the engine guy.
".... a bundle of conflicting impulses..."
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"It's by far the coolest looking spaceship and lauch vehicle ever flown..."
Course it is. After all Kurt Tank designed it!
(http://www.swannysmodels.com/images/BV212/9.jpg)
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Originally posted by gofaster
Actually, the aircraft type shown in the crash they used in the opening sequence of the "Six Million Dollar Man" is hanging in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. The aircraft was launched from the belly of a B-29 (I think, maybe a B-52 instead) as part of an experiment in lifting bodies. The aircraft hanging in the museum is not the actual one that crashed, but one just like it that was used in the project. It is very, very small. No wonder it tumbled so much on the ground!
It was dropped from a B-52. It was the M2F2 lifting body, iirc, and amazingly, after the crash it was converted into a different aircraft and re-flown.
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I knew that the 6 million dollar man was real!!!
My mom lied!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Originally posted by gofaster
Actually, the aircraft type shown in the crash they used in the opening sequence of the "Six Million Dollar Man" is hanging in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. The aircraft was launched from the belly of a B-29 (I think, maybe a B-52 instead) as part of an experiment in lifting bodies. The aircraft hanging in the museum is not the actual one that crashed, but one just like it that was used in the project. It is very, very small. No wonder it tumbled so much on the ground!
Originally posted by Chairboy
It was dropped from a B-52. It was the M2F2 lifting body, iirc, and amazingly, after the crash it was converted into a different aircraft and re-flown.
Thanks for the info lads...
Loved the six million dollar man....I thought that crash sequence was amazing when I was a wee lad...
Tronsky
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I found this (http://www.astronautix.com/craft/m2f2.htm) about the M2F2.
And a picture:
(http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/e/e16731.jpg)
The M2-F2 and its plywood predecessor (in white on the left)
(http://www.astronautix.com/graphics/m/m2f1m2f2.jpg)
The M2-F2 was rebuilt with bigger vertical stabilizers as the M2-F3. I think its the one hanging in the Smithsonian.
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For a great read on that project and some other neat stuff up at Edwards, check out 'Flying without wings' by Milt Thompson. He was a test pilot on that project as well as the X-15 project and a bunch of other stuff.
Some highlights:
Buying a super hotrodded Charger with blower, etc, for NASA to use as a tow-test vehicle. Painting is NASA white and pulling various gliders as well as a manned rogalo parafoil test vehicle.
Getting stuck in the middle of nowhere when the staff C-47 that they used to do casual part runs broke down, then cajoling a replacement part out of the local reserve.
Landing an X-15 and sliding off the dry lake bed into the scrub.
Testing dry lake beds near Mojave for suitability as emergency landing spots by dropping bowling balls on them from the C-47.
Crashing a crop duster as a teenager in Mexico, then wheeling it to the road with the help of a farmer and his tractor and flying back, alternately going high and low as his fear that a: the engine might quit and he'd need to glide fought with his other fear that b: the crash might have broken an engine bolt and the engine might fall off.
Great stuff, highly recomended.
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Originally posted by -tronski-
Isn't that the ship astronaut Steve Austin crashed in.....
Tronsky
OMG...Stone Cold is DEAD???????????
Oh the humanity....