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Post by Ginnie on Nov 9, 2010 22:03:30 GMT -4
Is someone being accused of antisemantism? ;D Gillianren alert!
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Post by Ginnie on Nov 8, 2010 19:46:10 GMT -4
Good luck, Jay. Meanwhile, boys and girls, I'll be happy to take over for Jay in his absence. ...on second thought that's not a good idea... I guess we'll have to spread the work around - photography issues to Kiwi, rockets and orbital mechanics to Bob, biology to Jason Thompson... etc... If anyone needs to know anything about the Beatles, they can come to me...
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Post by Ginnie on Nov 8, 2010 19:40:50 GMT -4
That's a play you'll only get away with once!
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Post by Ginnie on Nov 1, 2010 19:32:58 GMT -4
It's our cowboy heritage. Ours too, probably. A lot of people don't realize that Canada had (and still does have) cowboys too. What's different about our history is that the Mounties went everywhere before the cowboys got there so law and order was the order of the day.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 31, 2010 15:09:17 GMT -4
Well I had fun last night hanging out with Elvis and Ozzy...
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 29, 2010 22:20:34 GMT -4
We need more fun threads around here... so post your Halloween pics if you dare! I'll have new ones after Saturday nights party so this will have to do for now! BUD THE ZOMBIE
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 27, 2010 16:29:09 GMT -4
Okay, he's gone now. Now everybody go back doing what you were doing before.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 8, 2010 8:13:06 GMT -4
It sure was a struggle to get away from that site. It kept asking me if I wanted to navigate away and brought me to the checkout screen where they were asking for shipping and banking/billing information.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 8, 2010 0:57:43 GMT -4
I'd approach him with the mic, then walk past him. We spend waaay too much time talking about this guy. I certainly wouldn't want to talk to him.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 5, 2010 17:09:43 GMT -4
[TROUBLEMAKER] I still don't like the two-column layout [/TROUBLEMAKER] Don't fret - I didn't like it either, but the content made up for it.
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 5, 2010 17:07:49 GMT -4
"Hello, my baby! Hello, my darling! Hello, my ragtime gal..." Not only do we watch Monty Python, but cartoons also!
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 5, 2010 17:07:04 GMT -4
A weighted feather is still an airfoil, and will flutter in an atmosphere. African or European? (Python fans help those who don't get it) Be careful before answering this question!
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 4, 2010 20:41:26 GMT -4
I'm going to use that, if you don't mind....... Go ahead. Just run a google search on "Nemesis Inc." or similar. At least one of them is a Miami office supplies wholesaler, IIRC. Also, I just got to see how this board treats Greek characters...escaped HTML entities? Really? In "Dictionary of Word Origins" Nemesis see nomad
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 4, 2010 19:24:13 GMT -4
Is truegroup a member here by another name?
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Post by Ginnie on Oct 4, 2010 18:03:52 GMT -4
Apparently NASA has treated telemetry tapes rather differently from photographic materials. The latter are kept in freezers and handled very carefully; the former seem to be stored much as an afterthought, and in some cases the tapes were recycled to meet a shortage due to QC problems with new tapes. This is a real shame, as we could now produce better quality conversions from NASA's non-standard video formats than were made at the time. Knowing what we know now, had I been the NASA archivist I would have insisted on finding some way to archive the raw telemetry data using the technology available at the time. E.g., it probably would have been possible to record at least some of those signals on film that could be stored in the same way as the actual photographic materials. But all this was 4 decades ago, and one can't really hold NASA responsible for not seeing that far into the future and predicting the technology we'd have today. In the late sixties, 80,000 magnetic tapes related to satellites and the space program were being analyzed annually by computers. That's a lot of tape.
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