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    here's something you don't see everyday...

    these are a couple of pics of atlantis and endeavour on the twin launch pads at the cape. they are both sitting there because of delays.




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    I wonder if there's gold under that rainbow....
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    That's where I was born!

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    Great pics, btw. Reminds me of Armageddon.

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    Those pics are awesome.

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    That's amazing imagery...very cool! Kind of makes me hopeful for the prospect of human progress...almost.

    "Men choose as their prophets those who tell them that their hopes are true." --Lord Dunsany

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    Quote Originally Posted by AcesandEights View Post
    That's amazing imagery...very cool! Kind of makes me hopeful for the prospect of human progress...almost.
    Really? Looking at those archaic beasts? I was hoping that the race to space contest a few years back would inspire something less dangerous than exploding ourselves into orbit

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    Quote Originally Posted by axlish View Post
    Really? Looking at those archaic beasts? I was hoping that the race to space contest a few years back would inspire something less dangerous than exploding ourselves into orbit
    The 60's lied!they said we would all have flying cars,tin foil suits & robots that do all the housework by now

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikePizzoff View Post
    That's where I was born!
    you were born on a launch pad?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by acealive1 View Post
    you were born on a launch pad?!
    Maybe he meant conceived?

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    Quote Originally Posted by acealive1 View Post
    you were born on a launch pad?!

    That would be kind of funny to be born on a launch pad.

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    there's an Armageddon joke in here somewhere, but i really don't want to dig it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tricky View Post
    The 60's lied!they said we would all have flying cars,tin foil suits & robots that do all the housework by now
    Tricky is right about the flying cars and robot servants: Along those lines, remember all the talk in the late '80s & early '90s about "paperless offices" dominated by digital media? What the hell happened to that?


    And the metric system? In the 1970's I remember we were told in school that the metric system would be the standard in a few years. Although practically all of the rest of the world is measuring things in meters and kilometers, we in the United States are still using inches and feet!

    EDIT: Apologies to the OP since my rant has nothing at all to do with the very awesome photo of the shuttles on their respective launch pads. Though I wonder if NASA still uses inches and miles in their calculations.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman311 View Post
    I wonder if there's gold under that rainbow....
    I'd settle for a bowl of lucky charms.
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