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xoxoxoBruce 11-25-2018 02:49 PM
Yes, less than a dozen letters to the FCC would raise a wave of bullshit on the show/station/network.

Gravdigr 11-29-2018 03:16 PM
Nov 29, 1972

PONG

xoxoxoBruce 12-01-2018 01:37 PM
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We might recall that it was on this date in 1999 that the Russian Duma (its legislature) voted 273-1 to pass an animal rights bill that prohibited Russians from eating their “animal companions”– their pets. Shortly thereafter the newly-elected President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, vetoed the bill.

xoxoxoBruce 12-02-2018 04:11 PM
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12-2-1942 – “…the Italian Navigator has just landed in the New World”.
Actually it was Enrico Fermi in a tent on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field.

12-2-1957 - the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, reached criticality.

Gravdigr 12-06-2018 02:09 PM
Dec 6, 1912

The bust of Nefertiti was found by Ludwig Borchardt.

Akhenaten found Nefertiti's bust (:ggw:) much, much earlier.

:jig:

Gravdigr 12-12-2018 09:15 AM
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Dec 12, 1985

Arrow Air Flight 1285

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On the morning of Thursday, 12 December 1985, shortly after takeoff from Gander [Newfoundland] en route to Fort Campbell [Kentucky], the aircraft stalled, crashed, and burned about half a mile from the runway, killing all 248 passengers [all members of 101st Airborne Division, the Screaming Eagles] and 8 crew members on board.

Carruthers 12-24-2018 10:47 AM
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December 24th 1968.

Apollo 8 Earthrise.

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Earthrise is a photograph of Earth and some of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut Bill Anders on December 24, 1968, during the Apollo 8 mission.
Nature photographer Galen Rowell declared it "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken"
Link

Gravdigr 12-24-2018 01:38 PM
:devil:

Nice to see you back, Mr. C.

Carruthers 12-24-2018 02:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1021671)
:devil:

Nice to see you back, Mr. C.
Good to be back Mr G. :thumb:

Carruthers 12-25-2018 06:59 AM
December 24th 1968.

Apollo 8's Christmas Eve Message



There's a speck of dust in my eye.


This version is without music...

Griff 12-25-2018 07:58 AM
Definitely too dusty here.

Gravdigr 01-07-2019 06:51 AM
January 7, 1948

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On January 7, 1948, 25-year-old Captain Thomas F. Mantell, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, died in the crash of his F-51 Mustang fighter, after being sent in pursuit of an unidentified flying object (UFO). The event was among the most publicized early UFO incidents.
This is pretty much Franklin's only claim to fame of any sort. After Johnny Cash's wedding, and of course, The Digr.:cool:

Mantell's plane crashed about three - four miles from my house. Of course, my house wasn't here yet.

For the record, I am not a little green man. Promise.:D

xoxoxoBruce 01-07-2019 07:40 AM
Sounded to me like some mornings you were a little green, man. :haha:

Gravdigr 01-07-2019 07:50 AM
Hah!:lol2:

Gravdigr 01-15-2019 11:20 AM
January 15

1919 - Boston's Great Molasses Flood kills 21, and injures 150.

2001 - Wikipedia made it's online debut. Happy Birthday Wikipedia!!!

2009 - Miracle On The Hudson

Carruthers 01-15-2019 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1023223)
January 15

2009 - Miracle On The Hudson
Heavens! Is that really ten years ago?

It was one of those 'I remember where I was when...' moments for me.
I was looking after horses at the time and had just done a final check for the evening.
On getting into the car the 2100 news was on the radio and carried the first report of the accident.
My first thought was that it was going to be a repeat of the Air Florida Flight 90 accident in the Potomac on January 13th 1982.
Thankfully it wasn't to be.

Gravdigr 01-16-2019 08:53 AM
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January 16, 2003

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Space Shuttle Columbia, the first shuttle in space, lifts off on it's 28th, and final, mission. Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry 16 days later.

sexobon 01-20-2019 11:19 AM
20 January,
 
Birthdays: DeForest Kelley, 1920 / Buzz Aldrin, 1930 / Tom Baker, 1934

A space-time threefer.

Gravdigr 01-20-2019 01:38 PM
Happy Birthday, Starchild.

That makes a fourfer, kinda.:)

Gravdigr 01-28-2019 12:50 PM
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Challenger

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During the ascent phase, 73 seconds after liftoff, the vehicle experienced a catastrophic structural failure resulting in the loss of crew and vehicle. The Rogers Commission later determined the cause of the accident to have been the failure of the primary and secondary (backup) O-ring seals on Challenger's right Solid Rocket Booster. The failure of these seals allowed a flamethrower-like flare to impinge upon one of two aft SRB attach struts, which eventually failed, freeing the booster to pivot about its remaining attachment points. The forward part of the booster cylinder struck the external tank inter-tank area, leading to a structural failure of the ET—the core structural component of the entire stack. A rapid burning of liberated propellants ensued. With the structural "backbone" of the stack compromised and breaking up, the SRBs flew off on their own, as did the orbiter, which rapidly disintegrated due to overwhelming aerodynamic forces. The launch had been approved despite a predicted ambient temperature of −3 °C (27 °F), well below the qualification limit of major components such as the SRBs, which had been certified for use only at temperatures above 4 °C (39 °F). Evidence found in the remnants of the crew cabin showed that several of the emergency air supplies (PEAPs) carried by the astronauts had been manually activated, suggesting that forces experienced inside the cabin during breakup of the orbiter were not inherently fatal, and that at least three crew members were alive and capable of conscious action for a period following vehicle breakup. "Tracking reported that the vehicle had exploded and impacted the water in an area approximately located at 28.64 degrees north, 80.28 degrees west.

Happy Monkey 01-28-2019 01:12 PM
My generation's first "where were you when"?

I was in elementary school, and some kids came back from the advanced students class (my genius was not yet recognized), saying they saw the shuttle blow up and you could see little bodies falling. I'm glad the latter bit was imagination/embellishing, but little elementary school me did look for them during the endless replays on the news.

Undertoad 01-28-2019 05:04 PM
50 years ago today, O.J. Simpson is the first pick in the NFL draft and goes to the Bills.

Carruthers 01-29-2019 04:07 AM
What worries me is that I remember an event like the Challenger disaster as if it were yesterday and it's called 'history'.

We pass this way but once and it's going too fast for my liking.

Gravdigr 01-29-2019 09:22 AM
Weep not, for it can go faster.

Gravdigr 01-29-2019 09:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey (Post 1024347)
My generation's first "where were you when"?

Mine was when Reagan forgot to duck.

xoxoxoBruce 01-29-2019 10:29 AM
JFK.

Gravdigr 01-29-2019 03:25 PM
Bruce, I'm always interested to hear the Where I Was stories.

I was w/my best friend John's mother when the Challenger 'sploded. No, not like that, I was in science class, she was my science teacher. They went around gathering the students up and cramming as many of us into a classroom as would fit, then turned on the tv. No preamble or nuthin'. We all learned about it together, teachers and students.

Where were you when JFK was shot?

Diaphone Jim 01-29-2019 06:03 PM
On certain space shuttle flights (the "scientific" ones) the reentry orbit came right over my house.
On clear nights, they were impressive. Columbia came over in cloud cover, but we could hear the distinctive double sonic booms. If it had been clear, I think we would have seen the beginning of the break-up.
What always amazed me was that by the time I got back in bed after viewing them, they were already on the ground in Florida 3000 miles away. The ones that didn't blow up, that is.

For JFK, I was a senior in college working on my dirt bike.

Undertoad 01-29-2019 07:29 PM
For JFK, I was being brought home from the hospital, having been born a few days earlier.

~ I do not directly remember this, or anything else from that day ~

xoxoxoBruce 01-30-2019 12:01 AM
I was walking across campus from a drafting class when two guys started shouting out of a second floor window of the main building at us that JFK had been murdered in Dallas. I don't think they really knew he was dead yet, just that he'd been shot, so thinking about it over the weekend I thought there's was a strange choice of words.

It was a pretty grim weekend in Boston, I decided not to go home and the dorm was like a morgue, so I spent a lot of time at the apartment of some working girls on Beacon hill.

The shuttle I was listening to on the radio at work. It was my first week back at Boeing after I quit in '67.

Gravdigr 02-03-2019 11:02 AM
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February 3, 1961

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^Boeing EC-135C Looking Glass^


Operation Looking Glass begins. A plane capable of taking control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of SAC headquarters destruction is kept in the air 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, for the next 37 years.

xoxoxoBruce 02-04-2019 06:48 AM
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In such an event, the general officer aboard the Looking Glass serves as the Airborne Emergency Action Officer (AEAO)[2] and by law assumes the authority of the National Command Authority and could command execution of nuclear attacks.

Oh goody, for AEAO I nominate Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper.

Carruthers 02-04-2019 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1024917)
Oh goody, for AEAO I nominate Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper.
What could possibly go wrong? :eek:

Diaphone Jim 02-04-2019 11:51 AM
Someone had to stop the impurifying of our precious bodily fluids.

Gravdigr 02-07-2019 08:18 AM
February 7, 2013

The state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.

:right:

glatt 02-07-2019 12:06 PM
Hey, at least they did the right thing eventually.

Says the guy from Virginia who is trying to forgive people's past if they are doing a good job now. Like the Governor, and Attorney General.

xoxoxoBruce 02-08-2019 01:50 AM
It depends on what they did in the past, spitting on the sidewalk is hardly grounds to crucify someone.

Big Sarge 02-08-2019 05:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1025248)
February 7, 2013

The state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.

:right:
We believe in taking our time down here and not rushing into things.

Gravdigr 02-08-2019 12:46 PM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1025306)
...spitting on the sidewalk is hardly grounds to crucify someone.
Perfectly good target for character assassination, though.

Gravdigr 02-08-2019 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Big Sarge (Post 1025317)
We believe in taking our time down here and not rushing into things.
:D

Gravdigr 02-16-2019 11:05 AM
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February 16, 2006

The last M*A*S*H unit is decommissioned by the US Army.

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sexobon 02-19-2019 05:24 PM
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Gravdigr 03-03-2019 08:57 AM
March 3, 1991

An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

Big Sarge 03-04-2019 12:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1027208)
March 3, 1991

An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
Damn video cameras! See the problems they cause, especially now with everyone walking around with one.

Gravdigr 03-05-2019 10:47 AM
God created all men...

...on this date in 1836 Samuel Colt made 'em equal.

Gravdigr 03-05-2019 12:01 PM
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John Adam Belushi

Jan 24, 1949 - March 5, 1982

:blackr::blackr::blackr:

Gravdigr 03-06-2019 08:32 AM
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March 6, 1836

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1975 - The Zapruder Film is shown to the American public.

Carruthers 03-13-2019 10:25 AM
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13th March 1969

Apollo 9 safely splashes down in the Atlantic after a ten day mission to test the Lunar Module in free flight in low earth orbit.

Crew were James McDivitt (Commander), David Scott (Command Module Pilot) and Russell L. Schweickart (Lunar Module Pilot).

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David Scott performs a standup EVA from Command Module Gumdrop, seen from docked Lunar Module Spider.

Several books commemorating the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 are due to be published over the next three or four months.
I haven't yet decided which one to send to the Flat Earth Society.

Link

Gravdigr 03-13-2019 11:01 AM
Not only is the Earth not flat, it's wrinkly.

Needs to be ironed, frankly.

Gravdigr 03-20-2019 11:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 984655)
March 20

1991 - Eric Clapton's four year old son, Conor, fell to his death from the 53rd story of a New York City apartment after a housekeeper who was cleaning the room left a window open. The boy was in the custody of his mother, Italian actress, Lori Del Santo and the pair were visiting a friend's apartment. Clapton was staying in a nearby hotel after taking his son to the circus the previous evening. The tragedy inspired his song ‘Tears in Heaven’.

Gravdigr 04-03-2019 09:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Gravdigr (Post 1006542)
April 3

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1882 - An unarmed Jesse James is shot by the coward Robert Ford, in the back of the head, while standing on a chair cleaning a dusty picture hanging on the wall.

James had just learned from a newspaper article that gang member Dick Liddil had confessed to the murder of one Wood Hite. He was suspicious as to why the Ford brothers hadn't told him about it. James then realized the Fords were there to betray him. Instead of confronting them, with whom he had just eaten breakfast, James removed both his pistols, walked across the room, laid them on the sofa, and returned across the living room, and began cleaning the picture.

Carruthers 04-11-2019 04:16 AM
April 11th 1970 - Launch of Apollo 13
 
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Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon.
The lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the service module (SM) upon which the command module (CM) had depended.
Despite great hardship caused by limited power, loss of cabin heat, shortage of potable water, and the critical need to make makeshift repairs to the carbon dioxide removal system, the crew returned safely to Earth on April 17, 1970, six days after launch.
Well that's the official version. As we all know, the whole thing was staged in an aircraft hangar in Nevada, including the splashdown, and was done to promote the making of a film twenty-five years later.
Well, there are long lead in times in the film business and finance does have to be arranged, you know.

Link

xoxoxoBruce 04-11-2019 05:40 AM
April 10th 1606, King James chartered the Virginia Company of London, to create Jamestown, the first British Colony... the start of the British Empire.

Carruthers 04-11-2019 06:58 AM
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April 10th 1606, King James chartered the Virginia Company of London, to create Jamestown, the first British Colony... the start of the British Empire.
Time Team made a special episode at Jamestown in 2007. I remember the excitement of the team at the sight of a halberd being recovered from a well there.

I haven't had time to go through the whole episode but a quick scan leads me to believe that it was shown at about 35 min in.



I know that this is very much in FWIW territory, but this plate features in my modest collection.

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xoxoxoBruce 04-12-2019 01:04 AM
Is there significance to the 6025Y?

Carruthers 04-12-2019 04:16 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 1030190)
Is there significance to the 6025Y?
Now there's a thought!

I've just had a look at the dozen or so plates I have and most seem to have registrations in a non-standard format.
I'm no expert in these matters but they do seem to be of an 'individual' nature and which presumably mean something to the owners.
I have a pair of plates from Montana which read 'I NEWTON'. Photographic evidence is available. :)

Incidentally, I have mostly collected plates with wildlife designs, particularly Maine and Minnesota, or horse designs from Virginia and Kentucky.
I have a particularly fine plate from Pennsylvania depicting a River Otter.
Are you familiar with that one?

Gravdigr 04-12-2019 09:11 AM
This Day In Aircraft History
 
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April 12, 1981

The Space Shuttle Comunbia, is launched on mission STS-1.

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Columbia was the second shuttle constructed, but the first to launch on a mission. It was also the only shuttle to launch with a painted external fuel tank. Subsequent external fuel tanks went without to save weight.

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Serving for over 22 years, it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107 on February 1, 2003, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.
~Wiki

xoxoxoBruce 04-12-2019 10:12 AM
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Incidentally, I have mostly collected plates with wildlife designs, particularly Maine and Minnesota, or horse designs from Virginia and Kentucky.
I have a particularly fine plate from Pennsylvania depicting a River Otter.
Are you familiar with that one?
Yes, PA has dozens of different designs, three with animals I remember. It seems every college, fraternal organization, hobby, service branch, and whatnot have a plate.
A couple months ago I sent a dozen PA plates I had hanging around to a guy in Ontario who built a new garage and wanted to decorate it.

Just a sampling...

Carruthers 04-12-2019 10:23 AM
I have the River Otter plate as shown second from left in the top row and likewise in the third row.
It's currently for sale at $79.95 on a site I have purchased from in the past.
I can't remember how much I paid, but it wouldn't have been anywhere near that. :eek:

It's a long time since I have bought a plate but I have to say that the 'Flagship Niagara' design does appeal to me. En route to eBay. :)

xoxoxoBruce 04-12-2019 10:26 AM
I have the black plate on two of my vehicles and a regular vanity plate on the third. I saw they have an Autism Awareness plate now too.


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