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Baron Grim Posted Aug 11, 2015
Heh, they also (understandably omitted the ship, Nell< from _Battle Beyond the Stars_. It was the most pneumatic spaceship in SciFi filmdom.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Battlebeyondthestars.jpg
http://www.tor.com/2010/06/02/battle-beyond-the-stars/
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Baron Grim Posted Sep 22, 2015
14 years of comets via Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4343&button=recent
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Baron Grim Posted Sep 30, 2015
An old interview with Tom Waits, animated.
http://youtu.be/SyrDfCSZJmI
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 9, 2015
Apparently I just missed an opportunity for a brush with a brush with greatness. The proprietors of my local pub got word that one of their patrons that just left was "a member of Pink Floyd". Well, of course I was credulous. I'm not saying that had Rick Wright, Syd Barrett, or maybe even David Gilmour or Roger Waters had just walked out as I sipped my drink and stared at my tablet to avoid listening to political arguments or watch the sprots on TV that I would have recognized them. So I asked for a name. The proprietors had to check some receipts. We'd already established (through my listing of the above names and Nick Mason) that it wasn't an actual Pink Floyd member. But maybe it might have been some previous associate or guest performer. The first familiar name they found was Brian Jones. Well, being from The Stones and being long dead ruled that out. We finally found the name of Vernon Thomson. If that name isn't familiar, don't feel alone. Even Vernon himself wasn't aware of the connection until Nick Mason's book came out decades later. He was a member of Sigma Six with Nick and Roger Waters briefly while they were students in London.
Here's an article.
http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/other-related-interviews/vernon-thompson-guitarist-with-pink-floyd-predecessors-sigm.html
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 9, 2015
To summarize: I was in a bar and didn't know it with a man who was in a band and didn't know it with members who would later be in Pink Floyd.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Oct 9, 2015
You have to wonder how someone could be in a band with a couple of people who go on to become as famous as those two 
I mean, he must have known their names at the time, and hardly anyone in Britain could have been ignorant of the band members of Pink Floyd at some point, whether it was the Syd Barrett Years, or when Dark Side of the Moon came out, or when the pig broke free over Battersea Power Station and brought European air traffic to a halt 
The names of Roger Waters and Nick Mason were not what you could call obscure.
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 9, 2015
Well, I get the idea he definitely knew who the were later, but it seems like hew wasn't in Sigma 6 but for a couple of months while they were in college. He sounds like he was never seriously considering a music career so he probably forgot about it. Sigma 6 went through several changes and members moved around a lot. They later went through several names, the Meggadeaths, the Abdabs and the Screaming Abdabs, Leonard's Lodgers, and the Spectrum Five before settling on Tea Set. They switched the name to The Pink Floyd Sound after Syd discovered another band called Tea Set were booked to play one of their gigs.
Life changes fast at college and it's easy to forget everything you did. For me, it's impossible to remember more than a few names. I have a group photo of just some of the members of the photography department while I was at SHSU and while I remember all the faces, I can only remember a couple of their names now.
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Oct 9, 2015
Or it could just have been the drugs and the 
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Baron Grim Posted Oct 11, 2015
I'm sharing this here mostly because I just found it and it's late at the bar and my eyes and brain just can't take it all in at the moment.
Here is an amazing illustration of the Saturn V rocket all drawn freehand.
http://i.imgur.com/NAok3jp.jpg
More info can be found in the comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/3o8off/inside_saturn_v/
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Oct 11, 2015
"Chester refused to light the rocket motors with a match"
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ITIWBS Posted Oct 12, 2015
There's also a picture of Chester in his bee suit in the illustrations of the 2nd stage.
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 1, 2015
Here's a fun conversation between Cmd. Chris Hadfield and Randall Monroe (of http://www.xkcd.com/ ).
I wish there were more conversations like this one in our media today.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/nov/28/conversation-chris-hadfield-randall-munroe-interview
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 3, 2015
Such a simple mechanism, built from (mostly) LEGO™, yet such "human" movement.
Amazing...
http://youtu.be/pKrHTYqm8pw
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 3, 2015
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Baron Grim Posted Dec 22, 2015
Would like some travel posters from distant lands? How 'bout distant planets? Really distant planets.
You can download and have professionally printed these Exoplanet travel posters.
http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/exoplanettravelbureau
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Dec 22, 2015
That's spectacular
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Gingersnapper+Keeper of the Cookie Jar and Stuff and Nonsense Posted Dec 23, 2015
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Baron Grim Posted Mar 31, 2016
The Land of the Strays (Territorio de Zaguates) is a free range, no kill shelter in Costa Rica that promotes mutt "breeds" like the Alaskan Collie Fluffyterrier, Chubby-Tailed German Dobernauzer and Fire-Tailed Border Cocker.
They periodically take all the dogs out for a hike where prospective adopters can socialize with the pack.
http://barkpost.com/land-of-the-strays-paradise/
Bonus Video: http://youtu.be/u8RhLayAU4g
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