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« Reply #30 on: October 23, 2004, 06:17:32 PM »
Lol, yeah, been playing it for about 10 years.  Although actually the username came from The Sims.

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« Reply #31 on: October 24, 2004, 03:52:29 AM »
A little late to this topic, but, here goes:

I'm 32, live in Manitoba, Canada.  Like Kel, I have no real experience in the space industry, just a keen interest.  

I should post here more often.  I've been a member here since back in the EZBoard days.

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« Reply #32 on: October 24, 2004, 12:58:55 PM »
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Right not I'm planning to major in urban planning (grade 10 now, so university is a couple years off), but I'm trying to leave myself open to doing some kind of engineering instead.

I once considered a career in urban planning when I was about your age but I decided on civil engineering instead.  There's certainly nothing wrong with urban planning, but when it came to decision time I just really wanted a degree in engineering, and civil engineering was most closely related to my interest in city planning.  Now I work for a general contractor that builds water and wastewater treatment facilities.

In retrospect I think I made the right decision because I've really appreciated having a good foundation in physics and mechanics.  It has allowed me to more easily pursue non-work-related interests such as space flight.

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« Reply #33 on: October 27, 2004, 04:02:33 PM »
I am 27, have a Masters in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology. My thesis was on a figher aircraft manoeuvre, but that's not the field I am working in at the moment. I am currently working with the Group Rocket Technology of the Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. I am a programme manager of two defence research programs there at the moment. I live in the Hague with my wife (got married just over a month ago). No kids yet ;)
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« Reply #34 on: October 27, 2004, 04:05:03 PM »
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I live in the Hague with my wife (got married just over a month ago). No kids yet ;)

Congratulations!

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« Reply #35 on: October 27, 2004, 04:08:19 PM »
Thnx!  :mrgreen:
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« Reply #36 on: October 28, 2004, 10:34:07 PM »
Urban planning and architecture have always fascinated and interested me. In a way I wish I had pursued Urban Planning.
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« Reply #37 on: November 20, 2004, 04:46:04 PM »
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Let's see...  I'm a 27 year old guy who majored in Aerospace Engineering from THE University of Michigan.

A Wolverine! - I won't hold it against you  :D  (I'm from Ohio).

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« Reply #38 on: April 13, 2005, 11:14:11 AM »
Hi I have been interested in rockets ever since the first gulf war made the patriot missile known.  This interest in rockets jump started my interest in science.  I have my Associate degree in science, but I plan to work my way up to a masters.  My background is unusual, the oldest of nine children, I was home schooled. I worked at wal-mart as a bicycle assembler for five years to pay my way through the local community collage.  I am now a Marine 5711, Nuclear Biological Chemical Defense Specialist Assigned to the Chemical Biological Incident Response Force.  My job includes operating GC/MS, ion mobility spectrometers, Photo Ionization Detectors, Geiger/Muller tubes and other related interments, while wearing chemical protective over garments and supplied air respirators.  I am a geek in a platoon of geeks.  You probably didn’t know that there were geeks in the Marine Corps, but we are here.  Oh! I forgot to mention that my grand father was an electronics engineer for the department of the army, He designed missile guidance systems.
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« Reply #39 on: April 13, 2005, 11:45:34 AM »
It's good to have you here, Josh. :)
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« Reply #40 on: April 13, 2005, 12:16:50 PM »
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I am a geek in a platoon of geeks.

This could probably be said about your membership in this forum as well. :lol:

From one geek to another, welcome.

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« Reply #41 on: April 13, 2005, 12:23:07 PM »
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This could probably be said about your membership in this forum as well. :lol:


I wasn't going to say it, but I think you're right. ;)
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« Reply #42 on: April 13, 2005, 12:46:43 PM »
I'm sure he's right :D
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« Reply #43 on: April 13, 2005, 04:22:41 PM »
That's cool, Josh- my dad was kind of a geek Marine long ago.  With little more than an 8th grade education, he was a self-taught chemist who eventually worked on the Manhattan Project, though he did his time in the Corp on one of those 'police actions' to Nicaragua back in the late '20's.

Bob- I haven't had time to go through all your site with the care & concentration I hope to eventually, but it's great stuff and answers alot of questions about orbital mechanics I've always had in the back of my mind.  Nice work!

Since this thread has come back to the top, I'll re-introduce myself for all the new guys since I've been off-line awhile- and will try not to be too verbose!  :lol:

Probably became a space fan even before Sputnik- watching Flash Gordon & such as a little kid.  Went to work at the Cape in 1970 as an engineering tech in a lab doing Skylab prototype development- mainly on-board power, instruments, wiring, etc.- while I was still an oceanography major at Florida Tech.  Since then have periodically been a consultant or contractor to NASA, primarily on underwater stuff- including the "LC-30 Mission" (about 1990?) which was a crew isolation study using an underwater habitat.... and the "Scott Carpenter Space Analog Station" (google it for details) from 1997 to 99.

Was chief construction tech for the world's first underwater hotel, "Jules Undersea Lodge," and also worked on "Marinelab"- another little underwater station still in operation.

Nowadays to pay the bills I'm with a marine electric company that primarily services big yachts & high-end sportfish boats for exceedingly wealthy idiots.  :roll:

Since I now see the big SIX-OH rushing at me like a brick wall, trying to do alot of writing in my 'spare time'... memoirs, a text book or two, and of course some science fiction.

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« Reply #44 on: April 13, 2005, 04:41:55 PM »
Wht kind of science fiction?
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