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Oh my... I just look at "Grumpy Kerbals" thread and I'm just recall when I wanted to see landing coverage of mars pathfinder (this was MSL of mine childhood) on TVP1, but I'm not received permission to watch, because it was in the middle of night (and I was 6 ;p).

Fortunately I was woken up by parents and they let me watch relation from landing... this was so incredibly cool (and maybe this was event starting my interest about space)!

Later I was obsessed about collecting on tape all programs about Pathfinder...

Anyone remember first event what began their interest about space and/or science :) ?

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Oh my... I just look at "Grumpy Kerbals" thread and I'm just recall when I wanted to see landing coverage of mars pathfinder (this was MSL of mine childhood) on TVP1, but I'm not received permission to watch, because it was in the middle of night (and I was 6 ;p).

Fortunately I was woken up by parents and they let me watch relation from landing... this was so incredibly cool (and maybe this was event starting my interest about space)!

Later I was obsessed about collecting on tape all programs about Pathfinder...

Anyone remember first event what began their interest about space and/or science :D ?

No idea, I've always loved space and science for some reason. maybe its destiny...

Or I just have a rubbish memory that can't remember anything. :D

Edit: Or maybe renegade Shepard would go for blue for the power?

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Star Trek got me into space. That, and my favourite bedtime story was... the set of kid's encyclopedias. They had comics in them, okay?!?

I'm not a big space-tech person, though. I'm more into extrasolar planets, and nebulae and stuff like that.

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Anyone remember first event what began their interest about space and/or science :D ?

Me being a perfectionist, I always wanted to use time travel to go back in time and reverse my mistakes. But that was back then when I cried when I drew outside the lines of a picture.

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Star Trek got me into space. That, and my favourite bedtime story was... the set of kid's encyclopedias. They had comics in them, okay?!?

I'm not a big space-tech person, though. I'm more into extrasolar planets, and nebulae and stuff like that.

Encyclopedias? My favorite book when I was about 5 was an astronomy encyclopedia.

Oh and I found this somewhat relevant:

earth-explode-o.gif

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Its amazing how much we have discovered such as the extrasolar planets, nebulae and galaxies and yet they all come from the same view point, earth. I wonder what the universe looks like when you view it from outside the solar system.

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Either way, he would protect the innocent and not cause harm to it. Renegade Shepard just uses different wording.

But surely he would manipulate his power into personal gain? He is Renegade.

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Its amazing how much we have discovered such as the extrasolar planets, nebulae and galaxies and yet they all come from the same view point, earth. I wonder what the universe looks like when you view it from outside the solar system.

Probably like this:8_Observable_Universe_(ELitU).png

At this scale, every point of white is an entire galaxy or even a cluster of galaxies.

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Encyclopedias? My favorite book when I was about 5 was an astronomy encyclopedia.

Oh and I found this somewhat relevant:

earth-explode-o.gif

Pretty~

These were a set of... oh, probably 15 or so. And they had the Charlie Brown characters scattered throughout in a semi-relevent manner. I had them mostly memorized before I could read. I lectured my dad on the dangers of cigarette smoking (not that it held...), I helped adults recall the names of Columbus' ships in 1492, and I was convinced that deer ate fish.

Well, they can't all be winners.

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Probably like this:8_Observable_Universe_(ELitU).png

At this scale, every point of white is an entire galaxy or even a cluster of galaxies.

Why a cylinder and not a sphere? At the centre of a sphere, all edges are at a equal length from the centre while its different with a cylinder.

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I know I got interested in space when I was in second or third grade, but I don't remember how. It may have been the Science Channel, or a book, or my father. All I know is that, because I "wasted" my time with video games and was obsessed with Minecraft, I eventually found KSP.

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Why a cylinder and not a sphere? At the centre of a sphere, all edges are at a equal length from the centre while its different with a cylinder.

This better?

universe.gif

Same scale as before.

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and my favourite bedtime story was... the set of kid's encyclopedias.

Yeah, I had lot's of popular science books since I barely was able to read, because I was "the kid who ask too many questions" so my mother buy "science" books as way to get rid of my inflated curiosity ;p (And no, there was no comics in them).

Also this was reason why Discovery Chanel (first program was about guys who had 3 days to explore and dig some archeology site, don't remember the name...) replace over 90% of my TV (with COLOR :o) use when it was added to town cable Chanel list.

EDIT_1:

Guys, let's post images of our wannabe selves, as in like the thing that you like to imagine yourself as.

Pretty much I always imagine myself look like IRL (Maybe always shaved, what isn't always the rule).

As a kid situation was similar, mostly because "no rush" philosophy (and pretty much I was mostly accepting myself in way I was) and people my age talk/fantasize about being older or be like that :P.

With 3 major exceptions:

I wanted write faster, I have Dysgraphia in childhood and writing was extremely time consuming and terribly frustrating process.

I wanted to see anything without glasses.

I wanted to get rid of AD and not need to wear wound dressings every day and feel itching of entire body 24/7.

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Oh my... I just look at "Grumpy Kerbals" thread and I'm just recall when I wanted to see landing coverage of mars pathfinder (this was MSL of mine childhood) on TVP1, but I'm not received permission to watch, because it was in the middle of night (and I was 6 ;p).

Fortunately I was woken up by parents and they let me watch relation from landing... this was so incredibly cool (and maybe this was event starting my interest about space)!

Later I was obsessed about collecting on tape all programs about Pathfinder...

Anyone remember first event what began their interest about space and/or science :) ?

Probably from watching 2001, The Right Stuff, and From Earth to the Moon as a little kid. I even painted a picture of Sputnik above Earth with 1957 painted on it. I can still remember Sputnik was launched in 1957 without even looking it up on the internet.

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