Poll When were you born?

[Salun]

The Day Challenger went kablewy........Omen?

 

[flytandem]

Group 1 (spacerace) here. Born in '55. Among earliest memories is probably about age 3, having a springloaded rocket on the end of a stick. I didn't know how to count backwards so I would try to impress any adult I could corner into watching as I counted up from 1 to 10 and at reaching 10 I would pull the trigger and the rocket would pop off and jump probably 1 foot up. That, and hearing the air raid siren at the town hall (Dundas, Ontario) being tested every week.

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Just thought of how funny it was that the toy rocket only went up a foot and fell back down. A lot of the real ones did just that. :rofl:

 

[Tex]

'99 for me

Wow, you're younger than ISS!

I think that was actually a typo from Bj?

 

[Sky Captain]

1985 here

 

[Enjo]

sheesh, the youth is the future. '83 here.

 

[fort]

Ehm...i'm born in 1949 wahou !

 

[Bj]

1992, just got 18.


Wow, you're younger than ISS!

er um sorry typo, 1990

No I am not 11... 19, thanks for accepting that I could be a young genius though. :lol:

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I think that was actually a typo from Bj?

ah ha, Tex caught it :thumbup:

 

[Fabri91]

October 1991 here.

 

[SiberianTiger]

I mark the era you grew up in by the rock concerts you've attended.

How wonderful that should be, when people find a difference in music styles the most striking difference between now and the time of their childhood.

 

[Donamy]

'58, Space Race was really starting to heat up.

 

[Andy44]

How wonderful that should be, when people find a difference in music styles the most striking difference between now and the time of their childhood.

Well, since the 1960s, the primary culture in the US and maybe in the West has been "pop" culture, which has always come with a soundtrack. People in their 60s and 70s can be heard to use words and phrases like "hey dude", "cool", etc. So unlike those who grew up in the 60s or 70s, young people today have parents who grew up with rock and roll and rode skateboards around when they were teenagers, etc., stuff their kids are doing today.

The difference made by 20 years now is less than it was 20 years ago.

Don't know if I worded that right...

 

[tblaxland]

And you may still be going to see Rush.

Or AC/DC...

 

[Star Voyager]

My birthday is the same month and day Spirit launched and the same year Valeri Polyakov broke the world record for time spent in space: 437.7 days!

 

[jedimaster1214]

December '94 :thumbup:

 

[MikeB]

1948. In the '60s I saw Ray Charles in concert, and Peter Nero (google is your friend), and Bill Cosby. I watched the Apollo 11 landing and EVA, and all of the others. In 1971 I helped analyze data from the Surveyor sample that was returned by Apollo 12. I held my breath for practically the entire Apollo 13 return home, and probably cried when they landed safely. I went to Florida for the launch of Apollo 17. I was never a rocket scientist, but I sometimes wish I had been. Orbiter is my favorite toy. And I run it on a Mac.

 

[jedimaster1214]

And I run it on a Mac.

How?

 

[MikeB]

I have a fairly new MacBook Pro (Intel processor) with the Snow Leopard (10.6) version of Mac OS X. One facility it provides is called Boot Camp. Using that, I set aside a 5GB partition and installed Windows XP SP3. I have an external drive with a bunch of Orbiter configurations in different folders. When I boot the machine, I have the option of booting into Mac OS X or into Windows. The only thing I use that Windows setup for is Orbiter. I get a performance of 160 to 280 FPS (faster in cockpit with only stars in the view).

I sometimes run Orbiter in a virtual machine under Parallels Desktop, but performance is only 12 to 25 FPS. However, I can do that while the Mac OS X is still running in background, which is sometimes convenient.

 

[Suzy]

November 1970. My parents were born in the 1930s, so they're a bit older than the usual.

 

[replicant]

Just missed 1969. Jan. 1970