suh_fan93 Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Driving the legendary funky drummer Clyde Stubblefield of James Brown's band back home to Madison after his Chicago gig tomorrow. Should be an interesting car ride. Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 History In Facts @HistoryInFacts 49m49 minutes ago Today we mourn the crew of Apollo 1, Grissom, White, & Chaffee. Killed during a simulated launch in 1967. #TDIH Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 History In Facts @HistoryInFacts 49m49 minutes ago Today we mourn the crew of Apollo 1, Grissom, White, & Chaffee. Killed during a simulated launch in 1967. #TDIH Made me wonder how many spacecraft crashes we've had. How many astronauts have been lost in the space program? Everyone is aware of the tragic accidents, a total of 10 astronauts that have been killed during activities in space vehicles. The first, of course, was the January 1967 loss of the Apollo 1 crew: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffey and Ed White. That was a ground test, they weren't flying at that particular time, but it was a tragic accident. The three of them lost their lives. The Apollo program, they were in the midst of trying to make that happen at the time, and the Apollo program essentially had to go into hiatus for about 18 months as they revamped the spacecraft, reconfigured it and made it safer and pressed on. Everybody's also familiar with the Challenger accident in January of 1986 in which seven astronauts lost their lives. A similar sort of stand down had to take place following that as the whole Shuttle program went into a reconfiguration mode. They redid most of the features of the spacecraft, they reconfigured the O-ring, which was the specific problem with that accident. In addition to that, there have been astronauts who have been killed in other ways, some of them on active duty, but not in space vehicles. Nine individuals have died in plane crashes. Some of them at one time were traveling from one place to another for NASA, and the best example of that is the lost of Charlie Bassett and Elliot See in 1966 when they were flying a T-38 and crashed in bad weather in St. Louis. Other have died in various other plane crashes; one of our astronauts was killed in an automobile accident, and that was not official business but he had died tragically. LINK So there have only been two spacecraft crashes. The one in 1967 and the Challenger crash. 1 Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Woman arrested for 'drowning 3-week-old puppy in airport bathroom' after she was told she couldn't bring it on the plane Cynthia Anderson, 56, tried to smuggle the young doberman on the plane three times before she allegedly killed the dog Dogs must be at least eight weeks old in order to fly on an airplane, according to U.S. regulations This was at the airport in Grand Island Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 MacGyverisms: How to Inflate Any Ball Without a Pump or Needle LINK Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 27, 2015 Author Share Posted January 27, 2015 Woman arrested for 'drowning 3-week-old puppy in airport bathroom' after she was told she couldn't bring it on the plane Cynthia Anderson, 56, tried to smuggle the young doberman on the plane three times before she allegedly killed the dog Dogs must be at least eight weeks old in order to fly on an airplane, according to U.S. regulations This was at the airport in Grand Island Man, that's harsh. Why didn't she just let it loose? Could've put a note on it's collar: "I need a home." Typical Grand Island. That town is a vulgar sh#t hole. Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 History In Facts @HistoryInFacts 49m49 minutes ago Today we mourn the crew of Apollo 1, Grissom, White, & Chaffee. Killed during a simulated launch in 1967. #TDIH Made me wonder how many spacecraft crashes we've had. How many astronauts have been lost in the space program? Everyone is aware of the tragic accidents, a total of 10 astronauts that have been killed during activities in space vehicles. The first, of course, was the January 1967 loss of the Apollo 1 crew: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffey and Ed White. That was a ground test, they weren't flying at that particular time, but it was a tragic accident. The three of them lost their lives. The Apollo program, they were in the midst of trying to make that happen at the time, and the Apollo program essentially had to go into hiatus for about 18 months as they revamped the spacecraft, reconfigured it and made it safer and pressed on. Everybody's also familiar with the Challenger accident in January of 1986 in which seven astronauts lost their lives. A similar sort of stand down had to take place following that as the whole Shuttle program went into a reconfiguration mode. They redid most of the features of the spacecraft, they reconfigured the O-ring, which was the specific problem with that accident. In addition to that, there have been astronauts who have been killed in other ways, some of them on active duty, but not in space vehicles. Nine individuals have died in plane crashes. Some of them at one time were traveling from one place to another for NASA, and the best example of that is the lost of Charlie Bassett and Elliot See in 1966 when they were flying a T-38 and crashed in bad weather in St. Louis. Other have died in various other plane crashes; one of our astronauts was killed in an automobile accident, and that was not official business but he had died tragically. LINK So there have only been two spacecraft crashes. The one in 1967 and the Challenger crash. Must be an old report? Did not list Columbia. Edit: Columbia accident in 2003 and the page was updated in 2007, so the total is 17 not 10. and what about the Russians? Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 A photo of the East Coast snowstorm. From reddit. Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 28, 2015 Author Share Posted January 28, 2015 What the world looks like if you scale countries by population LINK 1 Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 History In Facts @HistoryInFacts 49m49 minutes ago Today we mourn the crew of Apollo 1, Grissom, White, & Chaffee. Killed during a simulated launch in 1967. #TDIH Made me wonder how many spacecraft crashes we've had. How many astronauts have been lost in the space program? Everyone is aware of the tragic accidents, a total of 10 astronauts that have been killed during activities in space vehicles. The first, of course, was the January 1967 loss of the Apollo 1 crew: Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffey and Ed White. That was a ground test, they weren't flying at that particular time, but it was a tragic accident. The three of them lost their lives. The Apollo program, they were in the midst of trying to make that happen at the time, and the Apollo program essentially had to go into hiatus for about 18 months as they revamped the spacecraft, reconfigured it and made it safer and pressed on. Everybody's also familiar with the Challenger accident in January of 1986 in which seven astronauts lost their lives. A similar sort of stand down had to take place following that as the whole Shuttle program went into a reconfiguration mode. They redid most of the features of the spacecraft, they reconfigured the O-ring, which was the specific problem with that accident. In addition to that, there have been astronauts who have been killed in other ways, some of them on active duty, but not in space vehicles. Nine individuals have died in plane crashes. Some of them at one time were traveling from one place to another for NASA, and the best example of that is the lost of Charlie Bassett and Elliot See in 1966 when they were flying a T-38 and crashed in bad weather in St. Louis. Other have died in various other plane crashes; one of our astronauts was killed in an automobile accident, and that was not official business but he had died tragically. LINK So there have only been two spacecraft crashes. The one in 1967 and the Challenger crash. Must be an old report? Did not list Columbia. Edit: Columbia accident in 2003 and the page was updated in 2007, so the total is 17 not 10. and what about the Russians? They killed this dog!! Quote Link to comment
Mavric Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 She hadn’t walked the east side of the golf course in Curtis for a couple of weeks — too cold, too much snow -- but something else had. And earlier this month, when Sharon Jorgensen and her border collie reached the cart path that climbs through the trees from the third fairway, she found the tracks that the something else had left behind. They were big. She dropped her glove alongside one and snapped a photo; the four-toed footprint was half again as large. They were far between. She estimated the distance between them at nearly 6 feet, an Olympic-sprint stride. They were alone. The snow surrounding them was untouched, unblemished. “There were no other feet prints out there but mine and this big guy,” Jorgensen said. “The snow tells the story. What it is, I don’t know.” In the two weeks since she found the footprints, she’s heard plenty of possible explanations. A mountain lion, hopping. An owl, flopping. A turkey. Or a hoax. But who would fake it way out there? On the edge of the rough nearly a half-mile from the clubhouse, in a small town south of North Platte, in the heart of winter? “This isn’t a joke,” she said. “This is the middle of nowhere. If you were going to make a joke, you’d put them where someone was going to find them. This isn’t that place.” LJS Quote Link to comment
GSG Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Those track could easily just be a prankster: http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2012/04/animal-prints-carved-shoes-that-leave-behind-realistic-tracks/ Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 30, 2015 Author Share Posted January 30, 2015 Those track could easily just be a prankster: http://www.jeanniejeannie.com/2012/04/animal-prints-carved-shoes-that-leave-behind-realistic-tracks/ Yeah, I'll bet it was something like that. Quote Link to comment
ZRod Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 They sort of look like bunny tracks that may have melted a bit. Why would someone put "big foot" tracks in snow in the middle of nowhere, where they might never be discovered? Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Shaved off my three weeks of beard this morning. Then Skin Bracer. ^^This is me. Quote Link to comment
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