Illuminati-R-Us

Posted: **Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:26 pm**

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Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:13 am**

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:14 am**

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How could I refuse when all the drinks and probes were complimentary? :mrgreen:

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:17 am**

KLA2, did you ever see the bit your countrymen, The Kids In The Hall did about probing? If not, here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXfowQSAnqg

Enjoy!

Scott

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:04 am**

Thanks, BM 65. Is there anything you have not seen :shock:

I missed that one.

One of my all time favourite films is "From the Earth to the Moon."

In one of my favourite episodes, Dave Foley plays the role of Alan Bean, (Apollo 12 and several shuttle flights. One of the "best of the best")

Astronauts are generally depicted as "steely eyed missle men", as fearless, cold and dedicated as they are bold. (Darren Stevens aside :roll:

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Dave played the role depicting an uninhibited, wide eyed joy in being an astronaut and actually going to the moon with his crew and good buddies.

I would like to think that, beneath the required professionalism and emotional reserve, that was how many of the astronauts felt.

If not, how sad.

I think he portrayed a real, human and important element of being a great adventurer in the space program.

The Kid did good. 8)

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:27 pm**

I am confident they saw it that way. I remember vividly a documentary in which Aldrin, Bean, Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt featured prominently. It must have been a blast.

There is a wonderful lecture series (moon 101) somewhere on the LPI site. In it, Dr. Paul Spudis talks about Lunar Dust as a possible threat to exploration ("Dust gets everywhere. It's the end of the world."), and there he says that really the astronauts didn't do anything to avoid the dust. In fact, they were rollicking in it, "hey this is fund, we're having a gas...", etc. There seems to have been no shortage of fun on the Moon.

Posted: **Mon Jan 19, 2009 7:04 pm**

I agree with you guys there: talk to any experimental pilot (or any pilot, really) and they'll tell you of the thrill that's a major part of what they do (unless they're a bus driver).

It sure sounds like a blast!

Scott