spacebrick3 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 (edited) I flew a plane today. I'm at an aviation summer camp, and we're learning how to fly planes. Today was simple, with a lot of help from the instructors, but hopefully I'll get better. EDIT: The plane I was flying was a Piper Archer (the more you knoooooow!) Edited June 16, 2017 by spacebrick3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjamin Kerman Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, spacebrick3 said: I flew a plane today. I'm at an aviation summer camp, and we're learning how to fly planes. Today was simple, with a lot of help from the instructors, but hopefully I'll get better. EDIT: The plane I was flying was a Piper Archer (the more you knoooooow!) Remember: Pull up to go up, and always pull up to not hit the ground. Its how you land! Edited June 16, 2017 by Benjamin Kerman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubinator Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Today I saw Alpha Centauri! I never get to see that star from my home in the northern hemisphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 While on my five-mile walk this morning, I was stopped by a 90something year old woman whose house I pass by each morning. The reason she stopped me was to ask me to open her bottle of ketchup. When she saw me, she said she had been waiting on me for ten minutes... and yeah, I was ten minutes behind schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunnerAerospace Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 3 hours ago, adsii1970 said: While on my five-mile walk this morning, I was stopped by a 90something year old woman whose house I pass by each morning. The reason she stopped me was to ask me to open her bottle of ketchup. When she saw me, she said she had been waiting on me for ten minutes... and yeah, I was ten minutes behind schedule. lol, thats very.... interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adsii1970 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 30 minutes ago, FokkerAce said: lol, thats very.... interesting The title did say "funny" too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munlander1 Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 So I got Invisalign 2 years ago and when it was done, i was given a plastic retainer to wear at night. Well, I got in my bed and set my alarm on my phone, then poped in my retainer. -that tasted weird...someone must have done something to it... -I think that's soap?. -that is soap! -Taking it out -GAH NO, MOAR SOAP! after eating some stuff and flushing it out with water the taste left. Two for one though! Half way through writing the above a mouse ran into the room! So in the bathroom brushing my teeth after the above ordeal was over, and saw a brown flash run across the room in the mirror. I thought I saw something but then I thought I was crazy from a minor lack of sleep. It dawned upon we though it was a mouse someone saw entering the room it ran from. So I plug the gap between the door and the floor to try to pin him in. I then go over to the bench/trunk thing I have and look behind it. Darkness there and nothing more. I tilt it back to look under it. Nothing... Then I look back at the stack of papers... the mouse sitting there, still to the bone. I eventually lost it into my room so that's always fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSEP Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 I know more about spaceflight than a fully grown man, apparently. Im just a kiddo by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultimate Steve Posted June 17, 2017 Author Share Posted June 17, 2017 8 minutes ago, NSEP said: I know more about spaceflight than a fully grown man, apparently. Im just a kiddo by the way. Same here, I'm still in High School and I'm probably the biggest space nerd in my entire town. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSEP Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 2 minutes ago, Ultimate Steve said: Same here, I'm still in High School and I'm probably the biggest space nerd in my entire town. Yup, can agree. Whenever i say the word spaceflight there must always be some person shouting "SOYUZ" or "SPACE SHUTTLE" to fit in lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunnerAerospace Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 (edited) "CUBESAT!" Edited June 18, 2017 by FokkerAce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V7 Aerospace Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 On 16 June 2017 at 4:48 AM, spacebrick3 said: I flew a plane today. I'm at an aviation summer camp, and we're learning how to fly planes. Today was simple, with a lot of help from the instructors, but hopefully I'll get better. EDIT: The plane I was flying was a Piper Archer (the more you knoooooow!) Grob Tutor master race ftw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StupidAndy Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 I joined seti@home so that's interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Raging Sandwich Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Going to space camp today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Human Person Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 Just now, The Raging Sandwich said: Going to space camp today. have fun! Why not make a thread to share your experiences? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Raging Sandwich Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 3 minutes ago, Physics Student said: have fun! Why not make a thread to share your experiences? Thanks! And I probably won't do that, as it would be hard to maintain and it would probably reveal what me or other people looked like. I may post a few pictures though without anyone in it if possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nailed it! Posted June 18, 2017 Share Posted June 18, 2017 (edited) Today nothing but some years before, in class, the local inteligent boy was commenting something when the local popular girl said: "This guy's a nerd" Then the teacher said "Do not talk like that to him! He might be your boss someday." But then the kid answered to the teacher. "It's not probable, I think I wont have a (place where people offer plesaure if you know what I mean) business" Everyone just stared, laughed and clapped at the guy. Edited June 18, 2017 by Nailed it! Not inserting non-kid-friendly words Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoadRunnerAerospace Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 Well.... I learned that I was part welsh.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Human Person Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 I just bought the Lego Saturn V and I can't wait to build it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSEP Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 (edited) 23 hours ago, The Raging Sandwich said: Going to space camp today. Space camp? What is that? Sounds like fun! Edited June 19, 2017 by NSEP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icantmakemodels Posted June 19, 2017 Share Posted June 19, 2017 (edited) Got my G1 license Edited June 19, 2017 by icantmakemodels \o/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzgy Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 After waking up at 2 or 3 in the afternoon for the past week, I got up at 8:30 this morning. Still didn't actually get out of bed till 10:30 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icantmakemodels Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Exams. "Yay" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Wishbone Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 On 6/17/2017 at 11:00 PM, StupidAndy said: I joined seti@home so that's interesting I have an amusing story about SETI@home: Back in the early 2000s, I worked at a large university on the east coast. We were in the process of retiring a Sun E10k computer (basically a Cray supercomputer that could be hardware partitioned into multiple, independent servers) and I had a weekend to play with it before we got rid of it. So I took all the CPU boards, memory, I/O boards, etc and combined them into a single, large server. I don't remember the exact specs, but i think it had something like 48 processors and over 100GB of RAM (not very impressive today, but back then, holy crap!). I installed a base version of Solaris 8 OS on it, gave it an IP, and then downloaded and installed SETI@home on it. I created an account and fired it up on Friday afternoon. Came back Monday morning to find it had chewed through so many work packages that my brand new account had jumped into the top 10 on the leaderboard! I shut it down after that and sadly helped dismantle it and send it back to Sun as part of our trade-in for a newer E15k computer. Good times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qzgy Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 6 hours ago, icantmakemodels said: Exams. "Yay" Very much yay. I'm done for the year, finished finals little over a week ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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