My best friend reminded me that the Columbia anniversary is also soon. Feb 1, 2003.
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I thought it was Jan 28 when it exploded
What @Set Harth said. Columbia was the one that got up there, but the belly heat tiles were damaged on the way. Nobody noticed, so when they came back, reentry heat penetrated the wing. The wing sheared off. And that was all she wrote.
OK posting this here because I made the silly mistake of making these in their own thread. I used AI specifically Google Gemini to create a 1940s ish version of the USS Enterprise, I got two different pictures from my prompt.
Oh and to @The Lensman I really did enjoy your artwork... Those were really cool. And if you see this why did the ship let go of its nacelle?
Oh and to @The Lensman I really did enjoy your artwork... Those were really cool. And if you see this why did the ship let go of its nacelle?
I'm officially old.
I remember watching the first episodes of TNG when I was a kid.
Now, watching Disney+ Titans. Deanna Troi is being addressed as "mom."
I remember watching the first episodes of TNG when I was a kid.
Now, watching Disney+ Titans. Deanna Troi is being addressed as "mom."
I watched random TOS episodes when it was in syndication. But I watched in high school TNG when it originally aired.
There was something magical about the 90s. It was darker than the 80s in general for television programs. But we were starting to get some new technology to make life better, but it hadn't reached the point of always being available for work. Once I received my first Blackberry phone in the early 2000s, I knew life was going to start to become different.
TNG hit that sweet spot. There were still limited options, and folks still discussed at work/school what they watched on TV. I'm not even sure when those discussions went away. Now, nobody talks about shows they watch anymore at the office. And even among friends, when it does come up, it's often someone has watched something that no one else watched, or it's something that folks had already watched a long time ago that is now being discovered.
Saw this the other day on FB and it made me laugh:
I've been mooning about things from the past and printed catalogs sprung to mind, who remembers those?
Printed catalogs: This one feels like it happened a long time ago but I don't think it was really that long ago but I remembered our mailbox being chock full of catalogs from BigW, Target, Kmart, In fact in the 80s I think even Dick Smiths had them and I know Tandy had them because for many years I was on a mailing list from the early 80s and they usually sent them out every month, or when they had a sale.
Live food tasting: I remember these in supermarkets like Woolies or Coles but I usually just avoided them because often it was stuff I wouldn't have liked to have tried anyway. I did feel sorry for the poor people standing there as people were disgusting pigs when these happened and you'd see them swarmed by people taking more than one sample.
Feel free to add to this.
Printed catalogs: This one feels like it happened a long time ago but I don't think it was really that long ago but I remembered our mailbox being chock full of catalogs from BigW, Target, Kmart, In fact in the 80s I think even Dick Smiths had them and I know Tandy had them because for many years I was on a mailing list from the early 80s and they usually sent them out every month, or when they had a sale.
Live food tasting: I remember these in supermarkets like Woolies or Coles but I usually just avoided them because often it was stuff I wouldn't have liked to have tried anyway. I did feel sorry for the poor people standing there as people were disgusting pigs when these happened and you'd see them swarmed by people taking more than one sample.
Feel free to add to this.
Yes. I remember those. Especially the Christmas wish book.
I was just saying to someone yesterday, I miss Blockbuster.
Getting a movie was an event.
You gathered your friends, wandered around the store looking for a new movie, or a movie you had seen before but wanted to introduce to your friends.
You especially looked forward to seeing the newest, latest movie.
You went home, made popcorn, and laughed with your friends.
Like I said, it was an event.
I was just saying to someone yesterday, I miss Blockbuster.
Getting a movie was an event.
You gathered your friends, wandered around the store looking for a new movie, or a movie you had seen before but wanted to introduce to your friends.
You especially looked forward to seeing the newest, latest movie.
You went home, made popcorn, and laughed with your friends.
Like I said, it was an event.
She was a mother on TNG. She is past retirement age and could easily be a grandmother. A great grandmother isn't impossible.
Hope that helps!But in all seriousness I do feel that. Watching TNG and whenever I see Ogawa I can't believe she's died. She's in her 30s part of my brain is saying. And the TNG crew is older than my parents lived to now.
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