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I Feel Old

Started byQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
First post2016-01-01 10:49 -0800
Last post2016-01-03 17:11 +0000
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  I Feel Old Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-01 10:49 -0800
    Re: I Feel Old "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-01-01 13:33 -0600
      Re: I Feel Old Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-01 12:05 -0800
        Re: I Feel Old Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-01-02 04:41 -0400
          Re: I Feel Old "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> - 2016-01-02 11:50 -0500
            Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-02 17:14 +0000
            Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-02 17:36 -0800
              Re: I Feel Old John Garza <john@127.0.0.1> - 2016-01-03 08:07 -0600
                Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-03 15:06 +0000
                  Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-03 11:05 -0500
                    Re: I Feel Old Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-03 17:59 +0000
                    Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-03 18:08 +0000
                  Re: I Feel Old "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 06:44 -0500
                    Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-04 12:24 +0000
                Re: I Feel Old Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-01-03 09:45 -0600
                  Re: I Feel Old Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> - 2016-01-03 13:12 -0700
                    Re: I Feel Old Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-01-03 16:56 -0500
                      Re: I Feel Old Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-03 14:27 -0800
                Re: I Feel Old Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-03 23:53 +0000
                Re: I Feel Old John Garza <john@127.0.0.1> - 2016-01-04 07:42 -0600
                  Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-04 14:32 +0000
                    Re: I Feel Old Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-04 16:55 +0000
                  Re: I Feel Old Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-01-04 11:41 -0500
              Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-03 17:37 +0100
              Re: I Feel Old Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> - 2016-01-03 13:11 -0700
                Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-04 07:48 -0800
                  Re: I Feel Old Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-04 16:01 +0000
                  Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-04 16:23 +0000
              Re: I Feel Old Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-01-03 17:30 -0400
        Re: I Feel Old "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-01-04 14:55 -0600
          Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-04 13:15 -0800
            Re: I Feel Old "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-01-05 14:59 -0600
              Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-05 13:31 -0800
              Re: I Feel Old Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-01-05 22:11 -0600
          Re: I Feel Old Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-04 17:07 -0800
        Re: I Feel Old philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-01-06 19:21 -0600
    Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-01 21:33 +0000
      Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-01 22:52 +0000
      Re: I Feel Old Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-01 15:57 -0800
        Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-01 20:52 -0800
          Re: I Feel Old Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-02 00:45 -0500
          Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-02 06:40 +0000
            Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-02 17:25 -0800
              Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-03 08:18 +0000
              Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-03 07:26 -0500
                Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-04 07:34 -0800
          Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-02 14:27 +0000
            Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-02 17:28 -0800
              Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-02 19:56 -0600
                Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-03 07:26 -0500
                  Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-03 10:00 -0800
                    Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-17 08:48 -0800
                  Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-04 07:44 -0800
                    Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-04 13:42 -0600
                      Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-05 11:15 -0800
                        Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-06 11:27 -0600
                          Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-06 12:02 -0600
                            Re: I Feel Old scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-01-06 18:52 +0000
                            Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-06 18:06 -0600
                              Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-07 12:04 -0500
                              Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-07 09:22 -0800
                                Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-13 15:55 -0600
                              Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-07 09:36 -0800
                                Re: I Feel Old Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-07 17:47 +0000
                                  Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-07 18:47 -0600
                                Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-07 19:23 -0600
                                  Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-08 10:58 +0100
                                    Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-08 06:37 -0500
                                      Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-08 15:53 +0100
                                        Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-08 11:26 -0600
                                          Re: I Feel Old "879" <879@nospam.com> - 2016-01-09 09:53 +1100
                                            Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-09 11:24 +0100
                                              Re: I Feel Old "879" <879@nospam.com> - 2016-01-10 06:06 +1100
                                        Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-08 10:13 -0800
                                      Re: I Feel Old Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-08 17:42 +0000
                                        Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-09 07:30 -0500
                                          Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-09 07:07 -0600
                                            Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-09 11:55 -0800
                                            Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-09 15:40 -0600
                                          Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-10 06:13 +1100
                                            Re: I Feel Old Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-01-09 13:36 -0600
                                              Re: I Feel Old Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-01-09 15:30 -0600
                                    Re: I Feel Old Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-01-08 10:43 -0500
                                      Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-08 10:33 -0600
                                        Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-08 10:46 -0800
                                    Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-08 10:59 -0600
                                      Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-08 10:44 -0800
                                        Re: I Feel Old Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-08 22:53 +0000
                                          Re: I Feel Old "879" <879@nospam.com> - 2016-01-09 12:53 +1100
                                            Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-09 11:29 +0100
                                          Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-09 11:26 +0100
                                        Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-12 16:22 -0600
                                          Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-13 10:03 +1100
                                          Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-12 21:01 -0600
                                            Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-13 14:22 +1100
                                          Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-13 10:14 -0800
                                            Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-13 18:51 +0000
                                              Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-14 07:02 +1100
                                            Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-13 13:06 -0600
                                      Re: I Feel Old "879" <879@nospam.com> - 2016-01-09 09:51 +1100
                                    Re: I Feel Old "879" <879@nospam.com> - 2016-01-09 06:01 +1100
                                    Re: I Feel Old Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-01-08 13:21 -0600
                                      Re: I Feel Old scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-01-08 20:58 +0000
                                        Re: I Feel Old "Jack Myers" <jmyers@n6wuz.net> - 2016-01-08 20:36 -0800
                                          Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-09 11:31 +0100
                                          Re: I Feel Old Lawrence Statton <lawrence@senguio.mx> - 2016-01-09 18:33 -0600
                                        Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-09 07:30 -0500
                                          Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-09 12:59 +0000
                                            Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-09 15:31 -0600
                                              Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-09 17:22 -0500
                                                Re: I Feel Old Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-09 17:07 -0800
                                              Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-10 11:25 -0800
                                                Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-11 17:08 -0600
                                                  Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-12 07:43 -0800
                                                    Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-12 08:44 -0800
                                                      Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-12 09:52 -0800
                                                        Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-12 12:28 -0600
                                                          Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-12 10:58 -0800
                                                            Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-12 14:49 -0600
                                                              Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-12 13:57 -0800
                                                                Re: I Feel Old "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-12 18:19 -0500
                                                                Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-12 17:37 -0800
                                                    Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-12 18:46 -0800
                                  Re: I Feel Old Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-08 16:08 +0000
                                    Re: I Feel Old Lawrence Statton <lawrence@senguio.mx> - 2016-01-09 18:38 -0600
                                      Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-09 21:43 -0600
                                        Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-09 22:56 -0600
                                          Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-11 23:49 -0600
                                            Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-12 07:46 -0800
                                            Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-12 11:28 -0500
                                              Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-12 14:58 -0600
                                                Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-12 14:01 -0800
                                                  Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-12 16:42 -0600
                                                Re: I Feel Old Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-12 22:07 +0000
                                  Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-08 10:36 -0800
                                    Re: I Feel Old "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-09 05:04 -0500
                                      Re: I Feel Old scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-01-11 14:48 +0000
                                        Re: I Feel Old Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-01-11 17:28 +0000
                                        Re: I Feel Old "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-11 19:01 -0500
                                    Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-09 07:30 -0500
                                    Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-09 16:59 -0600
                              Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-07 13:13 -0600
                                Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-07 18:55 -0600
                                  Re: I Feel Old Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-08 17:40 +0000
                                    Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-08 23:20 +0000
                Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-04 07:29 -0800
                  Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-04 18:30 +0100
                    Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-04 10:59 -0800
                      Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-04 19:48 -0600
                        Re: I Feel Old Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-01-05 06:27 -0800
                          Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-05 16:26 +0000
                          Re: I Feel Old Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-01-05 12:27 -0600
                            Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-05 11:08 -0800
                    Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-04 13:14 -0600
                      Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-04 14:43 -0600
                        Re: I Feel Old Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-04 22:38 +0000
                        Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-12 17:47 -0600
                          Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-13 01:27 +0100
                            Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-13 11:18 -0600
                              Re: I Feel Old Lawrence Statton <lawrence@senguio.mx> - 2016-01-13 19:05 -0600
                                Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-13 20:22 -0600
                                  Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-14 14:09 -0600
                                    Re: I Feel Old jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-01-15 14:51 +0000
                                      Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-15 09:48 -0600
                                        Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-15 17:26 +0100
                                          Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-15 13:19 -0600
                                      Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-15 09:20 -0800
                                      Re: I Feel Old Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-15 17:44 +0000
                                        Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-15 12:57 -0600
                                          Re: I Feel Old hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-01-19 12:42 -0800
                                            Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-19 15:27 -0600
                                        Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-15 19:15 +0100
                                          Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-15 13:44 -0600
                                            Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-15 15:02 -0600
                                              Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-16 08:58 +1100
                                              Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-15 23:51 +0100
                                                Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-17 16:01 -0600
                                              Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-15 17:11 -0600
                                              Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-16 08:03 -0500
                                                Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-16 08:29 -0600
                                                  Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-17 03:38 +1100
                                                  Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-16 15:32 -0500
                                                    Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-16 16:59 -0600
                                                  Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-16 16:45 -0600
                                                    Re: I Feel Old Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-17 02:11 +0000
                                                      Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-17 14:02 +1100
                                                        Re: I Feel Old Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-17 14:22 +0000
                                                          Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-18 05:09 +1100
                                                          Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-17 15:00 -0600
                                                            Re: I Feel Old Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-18 03:59 +0000
                                                  Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-16 16:15 +0100
                                                    Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-17 11:39 +0000
                                                      Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-18 04:41 +1100
                                                Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-16 16:33 +0000
                                                  Re: I Feel Old "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-01-16 11:19 -0600
                                                    Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-16 18:36 +0000
                                                    Re: I Feel Old Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-16 17:23 -0500
                                                  Re: I Feel Old "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 13:01 -0500
                                                    Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-16 20:55 +0000
                                                      Re: I Feel Old Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2016-01-16 14:53 -0800
                                                        Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-17 05:43 +0000
                                                      Re: I Feel Old "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-16 19:50 -0500
                                                      Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-17 09:22 -0500
                                                        Re: I Feel Old Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-17 14:33 +0000
                                                          Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-17 15:19 +0000
                                                            Re: I Feel Old Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2016-01-17 19:27 +0000
                                                        Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-17 15:00 +0000
                                                  Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-16 15:32 -0500
                                                    Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-16 22:49 -0600
                                                      Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-17 16:12 +1100
                                                    Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-17 11:32 +0000
                                                      Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-17 12:06 +0000
                                                        Re: I Feel Old Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-01-17 09:22 -0500
                                                          Re: I Feel Old Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2016-01-17 10:05 -0500
                                                      Re: I Feel Old jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-01-17 15:26 +0000
                                                        Re: I Feel Old "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 05:14 +1100
                                                  Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-17 15:38 -0600
                                          Re: I Feel Old jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-01-16 14:09 +0000
                                            Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-16 15:19 +0100
                                        Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-15 19:29 +0000
                                          Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-15 14:25 -0800
                                Re: I Feel Old "jack" <jkl8976@nospam.com> - 2016-01-14 13:46 +1100
                                Re: I Feel Old Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-01-14 05:17 +0100
                                Re: I Feel Old Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-01-14 13:11 -0600
                      Re: I Feel Old Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-04 22:37 +0000
                        Re: I Feel Old Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-01-05 04:44 -0400
                          Re: I Feel Old Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-05 18:46 +0000
                        Re: I Feel Old mausg@mail.com - 2016-01-05 11:06 +0000
                          Re: I Feel Old Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-01-05 18:46 +0000
                  Re: I Feel Old Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-01-04 17:04 -0600
                  Re: I Feel Old Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-01-04 17:36 -0800
        Re: I Feel Old jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2016-01-02 15:01 +0000
          Re: I Feel Old Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-01-02 15:58 +0000
            Re: I Feel Old "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-01-04 06:40 -0500
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#156161

FromAndrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com>
Date2016-01-06 23:48 +0000
Message-ID<KrGdnVzIO-BSOhDLnZ2dnUU78TmdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#156159
On 06/01/2016 23:44, J. Clarke wrote:
> In article <lI2dnSPPxLkGvxDLnZ2dnUU78QmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
>>
>> On 06/01/2016 13:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:50:57 -0500
>>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's been the big problem right along.  Even the ISS is treated as a
>>>> stunt--the most expensive artifact ever created, and the plan is to
>>>> destroy it at some point in the next decade or so, instead of using it
>>>> to build something better.
>>>
>>> 	Oh ye gods, I thought letting Skylab drop was criminally insane. Now
>>> they plan to repeat themselves. I do hope they at least take a little more
>>> care about arranging where it lands this time.
>>>
>>> 	That old line about the conquest of space being too important to
>>> leave to governments is ringing true.
>>>
>>
>> When a ship gets old it costs more to repair it every year than to buy a
>> new one. The ISS will need rewiring, replumbing and the airtight seals
>> between modules replacing.
>
> A ship doesn't have to be hauled into orbit piece by piece at a cost of
> $2000 or so a pound.
>
Unfortunately the replacement parts for the ISS do. We can only replace 
entire modules or small parts.

The habitat area of the replacement space station for the ISS is likely 
to be a Bigelow BA-330
<http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330>

http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330

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#156170

From"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com>
Date2016-01-06 19:38 -0500
Message-ID<MPG.30f77d95a818eca989db6@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156161
In article <KrGdnVzIO-BSOhDLnZ2dnUU78TmdnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> 
> On 06/01/2016 23:44, J. Clarke wrote:
> > In article <lI2dnSPPxLkGvxDLnZ2dnUU78QmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> > am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> >>
> >> On 06/01/2016 13:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:50:57 -0500
> >>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> That's been the big problem right along.  Even the ISS is treated as a
> >>>> stunt--the most expensive artifact ever created, and the plan is to
> >>>> destroy it at some point in the next decade or so, instead of using it
> >>>> to build something better.
> >>>
> >>> 	Oh ye gods, I thought letting Skylab drop was criminally insane. Now
> >>> they plan to repeat themselves. I do hope they at least take a little more
> >>> care about arranging where it lands this time.
> >>>
> >>> 	That old line about the conquest of space being too important to
> >>> leave to governments is ringing true.
> >>>
> >>
> >> When a ship gets old it costs more to repair it every year than to buy a
> >> new one. The ISS will need rewiring, replumbing and the airtight seals
> >> between modules replacing.
> >
> > A ship doesn't have to be hauled into orbit piece by piece at a cost of
> > $2000 or so a pound.
> >
> Unfortunately the replacement parts for the ISS do. We can only replace 
> entire modules or small parts.

Then it's time we learned how to take them apart and reassemble them in 
orbit.
 
> The habitat area of the replacement space station for the ISS is likely 
> to be a Bigelow BA-330
> <http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330>

And a large enough Bigelow hab can be used as a workshop to repair one 
of those modules that you seem to believe cannot be repaired for less 
cost than orbiting another module.
 
> http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330

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#156192

FromAndrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com>
Date2016-01-07 07:46 +0000
Message-ID<OoOdndTKMpFaihPLnZ2dnUU78Y2dnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#156170
On 07/01/2016 00:38, J. Clarke wrote:
> In article <KrGdnVzIO-BSOhDLnZ2dnUU78TmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
>>
>> On 06/01/2016 23:44, J. Clarke wrote:
>>> In article <lI2dnSPPxLkGvxDLnZ2dnUU78QmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
>>>>
>>>> On 06/01/2016 13:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:50:57 -0500
>>>>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> That's been the big problem right along.  Even the ISS is treated as a
>>>>>> stunt--the most expensive artifact ever created, and the plan is to
>>>>>> destroy it at some point in the next decade or so, instead of using it
>>>>>> to build something better.
>>>>>
>>>>> 	Oh ye gods, I thought letting Skylab drop was criminally insane. Now
>>>>> they plan to repeat themselves. I do hope they at least take a little more
>>>>> care about arranging where it lands this time.
>>>>>
>>>>> 	That old line about the conquest of space being too important to
>>>>> leave to governments is ringing true.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> When a ship gets old it costs more to repair it every year than to buy a
>>>> new one. The ISS will need rewiring, replumbing and the airtight seals
>>>> between modules replacing.
>>>
>>> A ship doesn't have to be hauled into orbit piece by piece at a cost of
>>> $2000 or so a pound.
>>>
>> Unfortunately the replacement parts for the ISS do. We can only replace
>> entire modules or small parts.
>
> Then it's time we learned how to take them apart and reassemble them in
> orbit.
>
>> The habitat area of the replacement space station for the ISS is likely
>> to be a Bigelow BA-330
>> <http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330>
>
> And a large enough Bigelow hab can be used as a workshop to repair one
> of those modules that you seem to believe cannot be repaired for less
> cost than orbiting another module.
>
>> http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330
>
>
Before you can repair your module you would have the cost of launching 
an entire Bigelow space station.

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#156200

From"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com>
Date2016-01-07 06:44 -0500
Message-ID<MPG.30f8198ec3b8154c989db8@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156192
In article <OoOdndTKMpFaihPLnZ2dnUU78Y2dnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> 
> On 07/01/2016 00:38, J. Clarke wrote:
> > In article <KrGdnVzIO-BSOhDLnZ2dnUU78TmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> > am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> >>
> >> On 06/01/2016 23:44, J. Clarke wrote:
> >>> In article <lI2dnSPPxLkGvxDLnZ2dnUU78QmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> >>> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> >>>>
> >>>> On 06/01/2016 13:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:50:57 -0500
> >>>>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> That's been the big problem right along.  Even the ISS is treated as a
> >>>>>> stunt--the most expensive artifact ever created, and the plan is to
> >>>>>> destroy it at some point in the next decade or so, instead of using it
> >>>>>> to build something better.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 	Oh ye gods, I thought letting Skylab drop was criminally insane. Now
> >>>>> they plan to repeat themselves. I do hope they at least take a little more
> >>>>> care about arranging where it lands this time.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 	That old line about the conquest of space being too important to
> >>>>> leave to governments is ringing true.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> When a ship gets old it costs more to repair it every year than to buy a
> >>>> new one. The ISS will need rewiring, replumbing and the airtight seals
> >>>> between modules replacing.
> >>>
> >>> A ship doesn't have to be hauled into orbit piece by piece at a cost of
> >>> $2000 or so a pound.
> >>>
> >> Unfortunately the replacement parts for the ISS do. We can only replace
> >> entire modules or small parts.
> >
> > Then it's time we learned how to take them apart and reassemble them in
> > orbit.
> >
> >> The habitat area of the replacement space station for the ISS is likely
> >> to be a Bigelow BA-330
> >> <http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330>
> >
> > And a large enough Bigelow hab can be used as a workshop to repair one
> > of those modules that you seem to believe cannot be repaired for less
> > cost than orbiting another module.
> >
> >> http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330
> >
> >
> Before you can repair your module you would have the cost of launching 
> an entire Bigelow space station.

Which is one more module for the ISS, adding on to it when not being 
used for repairs.  Why do you see that to be a problem?

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#156346

FromGene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
Date2016-01-09 21:47 -0800
Message-ID<a1s39bhqafaoflua9c8s1m70u678hhcvfu@4ax.com>
In reply to#156200
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:44:05 -0500, "J. Clarke"
<j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:

>In article <OoOdndTKMpFaihPLnZ2dnUU78Y2dnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
>am.swallow@btinternet.com says...

[snip]

>> Before you can repair your module you would have the cost of launching 
>> an entire Bigelow space station.
>
>Which is one more module for the ISS, adding on to it when not being 
>used for repairs.  Why do you see that to be a problem?

     Possibly, he is thinking that having redundancy is useful.

Sincerelky,

Gene Wirchenko

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#156347

From"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com>
Date2016-01-10 05:45 -0500
Message-ID<MPG.30fc003d10f79839989dd5@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156346
In article <a1s39bhqafaoflua9c8s1m70u678hhcvfu@4ax.com>, genew@telus.net 
says...
> 
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:44:05 -0500, "J. Clarke"
> <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >In article <OoOdndTKMpFaihPLnZ2dnUU78Y2dnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
> >am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> 
> [snip]
> 
> >> Before you can repair your module you would have the cost of launching 
> >> an entire Bigelow space station.
> >
> >Which is one more module for the ISS, adding on to it when not being 
> >used for repairs.  Why do you see that to be a problem?
> 
>      Possibly, he is thinking that having redundancy is useful.
> 
> Sincerelky,
> 
> Gene Wirchenko

Since this branch of the discussions started with the notion that ISS 
should be discarded because it's cheaper to build a new space station 
than to maintain ISS, I don't think so.

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#156350

FromAhem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Date2016-01-10 12:18 +0000
Message-ID<20160110121813.54b85b32ed221f578453e3d7@eircom.net>
In reply to#156200
On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:44:05 -0500
"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <OoOdndTKMpFaihPLnZ2dnUU78Y2dnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> > 
> > On 07/01/2016 00:38, J. Clarke wrote:
> > > In article <KrGdnVzIO-BSOhDLnZ2dnUU78TmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> > > am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> > >>
> > >> On 06/01/2016 23:44, J. Clarke wrote:
> > >>> In article <lI2dnSPPxLkGvxDLnZ2dnUU78QmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> > >>> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> > >>>>
> > >>>> On 06/01/2016 13:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > >>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:50:57 -0500
> > >>>>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> That's been the big problem right along.  Even the ISS is
> > >>>>>> treated as a stunt--the most expensive artifact ever created,
> > >>>>>> and the plan is to destroy it at some point in the next decade
> > >>>>>> or so, instead of using it to build something better.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> 	Oh ye gods, I thought letting Skylab drop was criminally
> > >>>>> insane. Now they plan to repeat themselves. I do hope they at
> > >>>>> least take a little more care about arranging where it lands this
> > >>>>> time.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> 	That old line about the conquest of space being too
> > >>>>> important to leave to governments is ringing true.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> When a ship gets old it costs more to repair it every year than to
> > >>>> buy a new one. The ISS will need rewiring, replumbing and the
> > >>>> airtight seals between modules replacing.
> > >>>
> > >>> A ship doesn't have to be hauled into orbit piece by piece at a
> > >>> cost of $2000 or so a pound.
> > >>>
> > >> Unfortunately the replacement parts for the ISS do. We can only
> > >> replace entire modules or small parts.
> > >
> > > Then it's time we learned how to take them apart and reassemble them
> > > in orbit.
> > >
> > >> The habitat area of the replacement space station for the ISS is
> > >> likely to be a Bigelow BA-330
> > >> <http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330>
> > >
> > > And a large enough Bigelow hab can be used as a workshop to repair one
> > > of those modules that you seem to believe cannot be repaired for less
> > > cost than orbiting another module.
> > >
> > >> http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330
> > >
> > >
> > Before you can repair your module you would have the cost of launching 
> > an entire Bigelow space station.
> 
> Which is one more module for the ISS, adding on to it when not being 
> used for repairs.  Why do you see that to be a problem?

	Sounds like a plan to me, with the option of junking modules that
become too old to maintain - I'd be inclined to park any such nearby with
the airlocks open (to kill anything in them) and consider them as a source
of spare parts rather than dropping them - after all every kilo up there
cost around $10000 plus whatever it cost to make.

	Those Bigelow habitats look very good, add fuel tanks and motors
(hypergols not H2/LOX) and you have a really neat OTV with great crew and
cargo capabilities - it'd cost maybe a quarter of a billion to lift - just
the sort of thing the Mars One folks need, heck a few billion would lift a
small fleet of Mars shuttles, just add fuel and payload - maybe a billion
per trip. I'd be a lot happier with the Mars One plan if it included
shuttles instead of a one way, one shot drop and die.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith                          |   Directable Mirror Arrays
C:>WIN                                      | A better way to focus the sun
The computer obeys and wins.                |    licences available see
You lose and Bill collects.                 |    http://www.sohara.org/

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#156351

From"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com>
Date2016-01-10 08:12 -0500
Message-ID<MPG.30fc22b74db7be17989ddc@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156350
In article <20160110121813.54b85b32ed221f578453e3d7@eircom.net>, 
steveo@eircom.net says...
> 
> On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 06:44:05 -0500
> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > In article <OoOdndTKMpFaihPLnZ2dnUU78Y2dnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
> > am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> > > 
> > > On 07/01/2016 00:38, J. Clarke wrote:
> > > > In article <KrGdnVzIO-BSOhDLnZ2dnUU78TmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> > > > am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> > > >>
> > > >> On 06/01/2016 23:44, J. Clarke wrote:
> > > >>> In article <lI2dnSPPxLkGvxDLnZ2dnUU78QmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> > > >>> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> On 06/01/2016 13:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> > > >>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:50:57 -0500
> > > >>>>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>>> That's been the big problem right along.  Even the ISS is
> > > >>>>>> treated as a stunt--the most expensive artifact ever created,
> > > >>>>>> and the plan is to destroy it at some point in the next decade
> > > >>>>>> or so, instead of using it to build something better.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> 	Oh ye gods, I thought letting Skylab drop was criminally
> > > >>>>> insane. Now they plan to repeat themselves. I do hope they at
> > > >>>>> least take a little more care about arranging where it lands this
> > > >>>>> time.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> 	That old line about the conquest of space being too
> > > >>>>> important to leave to governments is ringing true.
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> When a ship gets old it costs more to repair it every year than to
> > > >>>> buy a new one. The ISS will need rewiring, replumbing and the
> > > >>>> airtight seals between modules replacing.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> A ship doesn't have to be hauled into orbit piece by piece at a
> > > >>> cost of $2000 or so a pound.
> > > >>>
> > > >> Unfortunately the replacement parts for the ISS do. We can only
> > > >> replace entire modules or small parts.
> > > >
> > > > Then it's time we learned how to take them apart and reassemble them
> > > > in orbit.
> > > >
> > > >> The habitat area of the replacement space station for the ISS is
> > > >> likely to be a Bigelow BA-330
> > > >> <http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330>
> > > >
> > > > And a large enough Bigelow hab can be used as a workshop to repair one
> > > > of those modules that you seem to believe cannot be repaired for less
> > > > cost than orbiting another module.
> > > >
> > > >> http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330
> > > >
> > > >
> > > Before you can repair your module you would have the cost of launching 
> > > an entire Bigelow space station.
> > 
> > Which is one more module for the ISS, adding on to it when not being 
> > used for repairs.  Why do you see that to be a problem?
> 
> 	Sounds like a plan to me, with the option of junking modules that
> become too old to maintain - I'd be inclined to park any such nearby with
> the airlocks open (to kill anything in them) and consider them as a source
> of spare parts rather than dropping them - after all every kilo up there
> cost around $10000 plus whatever it cost to make.
> 
> 	Those Bigelow habitats look very good, add fuel tanks and motors
> (hypergols not H2/LOX) and you have a really neat OTV with great crew and
> cargo capabilities - it'd cost maybe a quarter of a billion to lift - just
> the sort of thing the Mars One folks need, heck a few billion would lift a
> small fleet of Mars shuttles, just add fuel and payload - maybe a billion
> per trip. I'd be a lot happier with the Mars One plan if it included
> shuttles instead of a one way, one shot drop and die.

I'll feel better about them once they have one attached to ISS and it's 
actually doing what they say it will, but I won't feel real good until 
they've got one of the larger ones up.  What's worrisome is that they 
seem to be planning their third generation to need a NASA booster 
instead of finding a way to break it down into pieces that can ride 
Falcon.

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#156352

FromAhem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Date2016-01-10 13:40 +0000
Message-ID<20160110134039.6568d25458c9f73d89360117@eircom.net>
In reply to#156351
On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 08:12:08 -0500
"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <20160110121813.54b85b32ed221f578453e3d7@eircom.net>, 
> steveo@eircom.net says...

> > 	Those Bigelow habitats look very good, add fuel tanks and motors
> > (hypergols not H2/LOX) and you have a really neat OTV with great crew
> > and cargo capabilities - it'd cost maybe a quarter of a billion to lift
> > - just the sort of thing the Mars One folks need, heck a few billion
> > would lift a small fleet of Mars shuttles, just add fuel and payload -
> > maybe a billion per trip. I'd be a lot happier with the Mars One plan
> > if it included shuttles instead of a one way, one shot drop and die.
> 
> I'll feel better about them once they have one attached to ISS and it's 
> actually doing what they say it will,

	Sure, proof of the pudding and all that. I certainly wouldn't want
to use one as an OTV until (at least) one had been in use as a habitat for
a good while (say a year).

> What's worrisome is that they 
> seem to be planning their third generation to need a NASA booster 
> instead of finding a way to break it down into pieces that can ride 
> Falcon.

	That sounds like a bad idea.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith                          |   Directable Mirror Arrays
C:>WIN                                      | A better way to focus the sun
The computer obeys and wins.                |    licences available see
You lose and Bill collects.                 |    http://www.sohara.org/

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#156205

FromPeter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
Date2016-01-07 12:04 -0500
Message-ID<1240704112.473877843.301501.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156170
J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <KrGdnVzIO-BSOhDLnZ2dnUU78TmdnZ2d@giganews.com>, 
> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
>> 
>> On 06/01/2016 23:44, J. Clarke wrote:
>>> In article <lI2dnSPPxLkGvxDLnZ2dnUU78QmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
>>> am.swallow@btinternet.com says...
>>>> 
>>>> On 06/01/2016 13:26, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 06:50:57 -0500
>>>>> "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> That's been the big problem right along.  Even the ISS is treated as a
>>>>>> stunt--the most expensive artifact ever created, and the plan is to
>>>>>> destroy it at some point in the next decade or so, instead of using it
>>>>>> to build something better.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Oh ye gods, I thought letting Skylab drop was criminally insane. Now
>>>>> they plan to repeat themselves. I do hope they at least take a little more
>>>>> care about arranging where it lands this time.
>>>>> 
>>>>> That old line about the conquest of space being too important to
>>>>> leave to governments is ringing true.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> When a ship gets old it costs more to repair it every year than to buy a
>>>> new one. The ISS will need rewiring, replumbing and the airtight seals
>>>> between modules replacing.
>>> 
>>> A ship doesn't have to be hauled into orbit piece by piece at a cost of
>>> $2000 or so a pound.
>>> 
>> Unfortunately the replacement parts for the ISS do. We can only replace 
>> entire modules or small parts.
> 
> Then it's time we learned how to take them apart and reassemble them in 
> orbit.
>  

Some of the old SF stories make interesting reaing, about assembling a
space station in orbit by welding girders and plates.

>> The habitat area of the replacement space station for the ISS is likely 
>> to be a Bigelow BA-330
>> <http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330>
> 
> And a large enough Bigelow hab can be used as a workshop to repair one 
> of those modules that you seem to believe cannot be repaired for less 
> cost than orbiting another module.
>  
>> http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330
> 



-- 
Pete

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#156195

FromAhem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Date2016-01-07 08:15 +0000
Message-ID<20160107081511.7bf17882036139b5ddf25db1@eircom.net>
In reply to#156161
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 23:48:43 +0000
Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> wrote:

> On 06/01/2016 23:44, J. Clarke wrote:
> > In article <lI2dnSPPxLkGvxDLnZ2dnUU78QmdnZ2d@giganews.com>,
> > A ship doesn't have to be hauled into orbit piece by piece at a cost of
> > $2000 or so a pound.
> >
> Unfortunately the replacement parts for the ISS do. We can only replace 
> entire modules or small parts.

	That's a pity - not designed for maintenance then. Still that's a
common problem everywhere these days not just in space.

> The habitat area of the replacement space station for the ISS is likely 
> to be a Bigelow BA-330
> <http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330>
> 
> http://bigelowaerospace.com/b330

	Nice piece of kit. Now the real challenge is to find a way to make
a profit out of having one in orbit (about $200M plus whatever the thing
costs to buy invested* - 20 years to amortise over) and we'll get decent use
of space.

* Yes I know we have to add crew costs as well.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith                          |   Directable Mirror Arrays
C:>WIN                                      | A better way to focus the sun
The computer obeys and wins.                |    licences available see
You lose and Bill collects.                 |    http://www.sohara.org/

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#156084

FromQuadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca>
Date2016-01-06 05:48 -0800
Message-ID<8e7195f9-b53a-4d62-a1e9-5d08e516a102@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#156059
On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 at 1:00:03 AM UTC-7, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 17:31:48 -0800 (PST)
> Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:
 
> > So if you want to blame someone, I suppose you could blame Ronald Reagan,
> > as he can be credited with bringing the Cold War to an end!

> 	Really ? He caused the Soviet Union to collapse internally ?

The Strategic Defense Initiative did help put the pressure on.

John Savard

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#156123

FromDan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
Date2016-01-06 11:29 -0500
Message-ID<n6jf7d$fr9$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#156047
Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:

> On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 5:24:26 PM UTC-7, Peter Flass wrote:
>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>
>> > Your average user has more computer power on his desk (heck, even
>> > in his phone these days) than the combined power of all the computers
>> > used to put a man on the moon.  But nobody's going to the moon anymore.
>> > What happened?
>
>> Obama ;-)
>
> Now, really.
>
> If one _was_ going to blame a President, why not Nixon? After all, he was the 
> one who cancelled Apollo 18, 19, and 20. And presumably that also entailed 
> cancelling whatever plans might have been in the works to prepare for a Mars 
> mission.
>
> Under Bush - and under Obama as well - NASA has been conducting automated 
> missions to Mars that certainly _appear_ to be preparations for a manned Mars 
> landing. The ISS, which has been around for some time, has had endurance 
> testing of astronauts under weightlessness as one of its goals, and that, 
> again, would largely be relevant in the context of a manned Mars mission.
>
> Sending astronauts to the Moon - and even more so, to Mars - costs a lot of 
> money. Thus, it requires a *good reason*.
>
> There was a reason for Apollo, even if it wasn't "good" from some perspectives. 
> The U.S. felt it needed to demonstrate to the unaligned nations of the world 
> that it was "ahead" of Russia. If this saved the people of India, say, from 
> living under a Communist dictatorship, then, yes, it was worth it.
>
> But spending that kind of money to make scientists and astronomers happy really 
> isn't likely to happen. Under any Administration, under any Congress.
>
> So if you want to blame someone, I suppose you could blame Ronald Reagan, as he 
> can be credited with bringing the Cold War to an end!

Only if you ignore the actions of Gorbachev who accomplished that feat
single handed.

-- 
Dan Espen

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#156137

Fromhancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Date2016-01-06 10:20 -0800
Message-ID<e70a8b68-ef82-4999-b248-db697b2c2994@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#156047
On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 8:31:50 PM UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:

> There was a reason for Apollo, even if it wasn't "good" from some perspectives. 
> The U.S. felt it needed to demonstrate to the unaligned nations of the world 
> that it was "ahead" of Russia. If this saved the people of India, say, from 
> living under a Communist dictatorship, then, yes, it was worth it.

I can't help but suspect that various NASA efforts through Apollo
helped the computer industry--and us--because NASA funded enable
research into better computer circuits that otherwise would've 
taken much longer to develop.






> 
> But spending that kind of money to make scientists and astronomers happy really 
> isn't likely to happen. Under any Administration, under any Congress.
> 
> So if you want to blame someone, I suppose you could blame Ronald Reagan, as he 
> can be credited with bringing the Cold War to an end!
> 
> John Savard

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#156050

From"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com>
Date2016-01-05 20:52 -0500
Message-ID<MPG.30f63d6669c43f49989da1@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156038
In article <397341809.473730964.998635.peter_flass-
yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>, peter_flass@yahoo.com says...
> 
> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> > On 2016-01-05, Charles Richmond <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> "Quadibloc" <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message 
> >> news:6080e724-4d4a-4f96-a0b6-06d6c86668d8@googlegroups.com...
> >> 
> >>> [snip...]                  [snip...]                    [snip...]
> >>> 
> >>> One way or another, the future will be exciting.
> >> 
> >> And the future will find a way to make all of us look *stupid* and 
> >> plodding... attempting to do big things with underpowered machines. The 
> >> future has always done this to people.
> >> 
> >> The fact is:  People in the present *must* continue to work the best way 
> >> they can, so that the *future* people will get the better hardware and 
> >> software.  IMO.
> > 
> > Still, just because a machine is underpowered by today's standards,
> > that doesn't make it unusable.  Look at what those space probes out
> > there are doing - and think of the kinds of computers the builders
> > had available when making them.
> > 
> > Your average user has more computer power on his desk (heck, even
> > in his phone these days) than the combined power of all the computers
> > used to put a man on the moon.  But nobody's going to the moon anymore.
> > What happened?
> > 
> 
> Obama ;-)

The last time anybody went to the Moon was 1972, when Obama was a small 
boy who had just come back from Indonesia.  It is rather difficult to 
find a way to plausibly blame him for the lack of a manned lunar 
program.

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#156074

FromPeter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
Date2016-01-06 06:54 -0500
Message-ID<1103050932.473772799.994295.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156050
J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> In article <397341809.473730964.998635.peter_flass-
> yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>, peter_flass@yahoo.com says...
>> 
>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2016-01-05, Charles Richmond <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> "Quadibloc" <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message 
>>>> news:6080e724-4d4a-4f96-a0b6-06d6c86668d8@googlegroups.com...
>>>> 
>>>>> [snip...]                  [snip...]                    [snip...]
>>>>> 
>>>>> One way or another, the future will be exciting.
>>>> 
>>>> And the future will find a way to make all of us look *stupid* and 
>>>> plodding... attempting to do big things with underpowered machines. The 
>>>> future has always done this to people.
>>>> 
>>>> The fact is:  People in the present *must* continue to work the best way 
>>>> they can, so that the *future* people will get the better hardware and 
>>>> software.  IMO.
>>> 
>>> Still, just because a machine is underpowered by today's standards,
>>> that doesn't make it unusable.  Look at what those space probes out
>>> there are doing - and think of the kinds of computers the builders
>>> had available when making them.
>>> 
>>> Your average user has more computer power on his desk (heck, even
>>> in his phone these days) than the combined power of all the computers
>>> used to put a man on the moon.  But nobody's going to the moon anymore.
>>> What happened?
>>> 
>> 
>> Obama ;-)
> 
> The last time anybody went to the Moon was 1972, when Obama was a small 
> boy who had just come back from Indonesia.  It is rather difficult to 
> find a way to plausibly blame him for the lack of a manned lunar 
> program.
> 
> 

GWB had plans to start up a lunar program  and Obama cancelled them.

-- 
Pete

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#156126

FromDan Espen <despen@verizon.net>
Date2016-01-06 11:34 -0500
Message-ID<n6jfid$fr9$3@dont-email.me>
In reply to#156074
Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:

> J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In article <397341809.473730964.998635.peter_flass-
>> yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>, peter_flass@yahoo.com says...
>>> 
>>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 2016-01-05, Charles Richmond <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> "Quadibloc" <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message 
>>>>> news:6080e724-4d4a-4f96-a0b6-06d6c86668d8@googlegroups.com...
>>>>> 
>>>>>> [snip...]                  [snip...]                    [snip...]
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> One way or another, the future will be exciting.
>>>>> 
>>>>> And the future will find a way to make all of us look *stupid* and 
>>>>> plodding... attempting to do big things with underpowered machines. The 
>>>>> future has always done this to people.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The fact is:  People in the present *must* continue to work the best way 
>>>>> they can, so that the *future* people will get the better hardware and 
>>>>> software.  IMO.
>>>> 
>>>> Still, just because a machine is underpowered by today's standards,
>>>> that doesn't make it unusable.  Look at what those space probes out
>>>> there are doing - and think of the kinds of computers the builders
>>>> had available when making them.
>>>> 
>>>> Your average user has more computer power on his desk (heck, even
>>>> in his phone these days) than the combined power of all the computers
>>>> used to put a man on the moon.  But nobody's going to the moon anymore.
>>>> What happened?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Obama ;-)
>> 
>> The last time anybody went to the Moon was 1972, when Obama was a small 
>> boy who had just come back from Indonesia.  It is rather difficult to 
>> find a way to plausibly blame him for the lack of a manned lunar 
>> program.
>
> GWB had plans to start up a lunar program  and Obama cancelled them.

Another proof of the incompetence of GWB and the good judgment of Obama.
Even Reagan had enough good judgment to shut down Apollo. 

-- 
Dan Espen

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#156157

From"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com>
Date2016-01-06 18:40 -0500
Message-ID<MPG.30f76fffb5b3d6db989dad@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156126
In article <n6jfid$fr9$3@dont-email.me>, despen@verizon.net says...
> 
> Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> In article <397341809.473730964.998635.peter_flass-
> >> yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>, peter_flass@yahoo.com says...
> >>> 
> >>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> >>>> On 2016-01-05, Charles Richmond <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> "Quadibloc" <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message 
> >>>>> news:6080e724-4d4a-4f96-a0b6-06d6c86668d8@googlegroups.com...
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> [snip...]                  [snip...]                    [snip...]
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> One way or another, the future will be exciting.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> And the future will find a way to make all of us look *stupid* and 
> >>>>> plodding... attempting to do big things with underpowered machines. The 
> >>>>> future has always done this to people.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> The fact is:  People in the present *must* continue to work the best way 
> >>>>> they can, so that the *future* people will get the better hardware and 
> >>>>> software.  IMO.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Still, just because a machine is underpowered by today's standards,
> >>>> that doesn't make it unusable.  Look at what those space probes out
> >>>> there are doing - and think of the kinds of computers the builders
> >>>> had available when making them.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Your average user has more computer power on his desk (heck, even
> >>>> in his phone these days) than the combined power of all the computers
> >>>> used to put a man on the moon.  But nobody's going to the moon anymore.
> >>>> What happened?
> >>>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Obama ;-)
> >> 
> >> The last time anybody went to the Moon was 1972, when Obama was a small 
> >> boy who had just come back from Indonesia.  It is rather difficult to 
> >> find a way to plausibly blame him for the lack of a manned lunar 
> >> program.
> >
> > GWB had plans to start up a lunar program  and Obama cancelled them.
> 
> Another proof of the incompetence of GWB and the good judgment of Obama.
> Even Reagan had enough good judgment to shut down Apollo. 

Reagan?!?!?!?!  Apollo had been shut down for nine years when Reagan 
took office.

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#156156

From"J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com>
Date2016-01-06 18:39 -0500
Message-ID<MPG.30f76fbcbce22c02989dac@news.eternal-september.org>
In reply to#156074
In article <1103050932.473772799.994295.peter_flass-
yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>, peter_flass@yahoo.com says...
> 
> J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
> > In article <397341809.473730964.998635.peter_flass-
> > yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org>, peter_flass@yahoo.com says...
> >> 
> >> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> >>> On 2016-01-05, Charles Richmond <numerist@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> "Quadibloc" <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> wrote in message 
> >>>> news:6080e724-4d4a-4f96-a0b6-06d6c86668d8@googlegroups.com...
> >>>> 
> >>>>> [snip...]                  [snip...]                    [snip...]
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> One way or another, the future will be exciting.
> >>>> 
> >>>> And the future will find a way to make all of us look *stupid* and 
> >>>> plodding... attempting to do big things with underpowered machines. The 
> >>>> future has always done this to people.
> >>>> 
> >>>> The fact is:  People in the present *must* continue to work the best way 
> >>>> they can, so that the *future* people will get the better hardware and 
> >>>> software.  IMO.
> >>> 
> >>> Still, just because a machine is underpowered by today's standards,
> >>> that doesn't make it unusable.  Look at what those space probes out
> >>> there are doing - and think of the kinds of computers the builders
> >>> had available when making them.
> >>> 
> >>> Your average user has more computer power on his desk (heck, even
> >>> in his phone these days) than the combined power of all the computers
> >>> used to put a man on the moon.  But nobody's going to the moon anymore.
> >>> What happened?
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> Obama ;-)
> > 
> > The last time anybody went to the Moon was 1972, when Obama was a small 
> > boy who had just come back from Indonesia.  It is rather difficult to 
> > find a way to plausibly blame him for the lack of a manned lunar 
> > program.
> > 
> > 
> 
> GWB had plans to start up a lunar program  and Obama cancelled them.

And instead planned a Mars program that has no more hope of actually 
delivering anything than Bush's program.

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#156140

Fromhancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Date2016-01-06 10:22 -0800
Message-ID<b20a9176-4d26-49ef-b1ee-8554173afcd0@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#156050
On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 at 8:46:23 PM UTC-5, J. Clarke wrote:

> The last time anybody went to the Moon was 1972, when Obama was a small 
> boy who had just come back from Indonesia.  It is rather difficult to 
> find a way to plausibly blame him for the lack of a manned lunar 
> program.

Talk to one of the "true believers".  They'll find a way to blame him.

Heck, they'll blame him for Pearl Harbor.  Or if your pizza delivery
is late.  They sit around all night and figure out new ways to
blame him.

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