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Offline Rob260259

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #15 on: June 18, 2012, 10:38:00 AM »
Stop taking me so seriously. Apollo 12 is my favourite mission.

Check this out: Neil Armstrong's tribute to Apollo 12:



Offline Noldi400

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #16 on: June 21, 2012, 06:14:40 PM »
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First, they destroy the television camera.  Then they smudge the camera lens on one of the Hasselblads.  Then they leave a magazine on the surface.

And of course, Al Bean has to get 6 stitches in his forehead after getting cracked in the head by a camera at splashdown. (Admittedly it was kind of a rough splashdown.)

I think there's a reason Al became a painter rather than a photographer in later life.
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Offline Mr Gorsky

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #17 on: June 22, 2012, 06:28:55 AM »
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First, they destroy the television camera.  Then they smudge the camera lens on one of the Hasselblads.  Then they leave a magazine on the surface.

Which magazine was it? National Geographic? Playboy?
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The Pessimist: The glass is half empty
The Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be

Offline Glom

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Re: Re: Blue glow
« Reply #18 on: June 22, 2012, 06:54:02 AM »
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First, they destroy the television camera.  Then they smudge the camera lens on one of the Hasselblads.  Then they leave a magazine on the surface.

Which magazine was it? National Geographic? Playboy?

That would be National Selenographic. I'm sure it wasn't Playboy because that was firmly fixed to their cuff checklists.

Offline Noldi400

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #19 on: June 22, 2012, 09:43:11 AM »



The Optimist: The glass is half full
The Pessimist: The glass is half empty
The Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be
The CT: The reflections in the glass clearly show a second light source. Besides, the radiation
             levels would have caused the water to boil. And why can't you see any stars?
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Offline Echnaton

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #20 on: June 22, 2012, 12:56:48 PM »
The Economist: The low marginal cost of filling the unused volume means the fixed investment in the glass is not fully utilized.
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett

Offline raven

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #21 on: June 22, 2012, 03:26:39 PM »
Post modernist: This is not a glass.

Offline JayUtah

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #22 on: June 22, 2012, 03:36:03 PM »
Account sales executive:  They said there'd be free refills.
"Facts are stubborn things." --John Adams

Offline Noldi400

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #23 on: June 22, 2012, 05:10:35 PM »
Flight Surgeon: Flight, please have Commander Young drink the rest of the water and take his f-ing potassium supplements.
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Offline Echnaton

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #24 on: June 22, 2012, 05:23:08 PM »
Dada Poet: Discover love for the void and recognize that glasses are abstractions of the human spirit.
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Offline Zakalwe

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #25 on: June 22, 2012, 06:38:04 PM »
...kinda reminds me of this:



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Offline gillianren

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #26 on: June 22, 2012, 07:51:09 PM »
There's a ren faire stand-up comedy duo called Puke and Snot; a quote from their act has it, "Some people look at this glass and say it's half full.  Others just gaze stupidly into the cup."
"This sounds like a job for Bipolar Bear . . . but I just can't seem to get out of bed!"

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Offline Mr Gorsky

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #27 on: June 25, 2012, 06:10:32 PM »
I think that probably sums up my membership of this board over the years ... my signature has created more conversation that any of the points I have ever made.

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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #28 on: June 26, 2012, 03:27:16 PM »
The opportunist:  While you guys were standing there arguing, I drank your water.
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Re: Blue glow
« Reply #29 on: June 26, 2012, 05:54:41 PM »
The Black Widow: Oh, you drank that?  Good... because it wasn't water.