Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 I watched some of Close Encounters of the Third Kind while exercising today. I remember being blown away seeing it in the theater in 77. What a great flick! Star Wars was also released in 77. Pretty good year for SyFy fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 I'm still waiting for Buzz Corey, Commander In Chief of the Space Patrol with his cadet sidekick to ring in on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 They were both very much fun movies. i recall we waited in a very long line in Long Beach, CA to see the first showing of Star Wars. Cat Brules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largo casey #19191 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 I usta have to work with some Space Cadets. Largo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 16 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: I'm still waiting for Buzz Corey, Commander In Chief of the Space Patrol with his cadet sidekick to ring in on this one. Might need some help from Capt. Video and his Video Rangers, with some additional personnel from Space Academy U.S.A., in the world beyond tomorrow, 2350 AD! (In some of the scenes there are space ships landing by backing down on their exhaust plumes. Now who ever heard of such a thing? SciFi, right? Wait...what's that, Elon? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 8 hours ago, Cat Brules said: They were both very much fun movies. i recall we waited in a very long line in Long Beach, CA to see the first showing of Star Wars. Cat Brules We saw it in Orange at a mega theater at the first showing there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Wilson Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 UB, the movie you were watching was called "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Richard Dreyfuss and Teri Garr starred in it, along with some cool little grey aliens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 8 minutes ago, Arizona Gunfighter said: UB, the movie you were watching was called "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Richard Dreyfuss and Teri Garr starred in it, along with some cool little grey aliens. Right. Why did I type First? I've seen it probably 20 times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 28 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: We saw it in Orange at a mega theater at the first showing there. Orange what?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Wilson Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 I've seen it about 20 times too, it's one of my favorite movies (I was a big fan of Teri Garr ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Trailrider #896 said: Might need some help from Capt. Video and his Video Rangers, with some additional personnel from Space Academy U.S.A., in the world beyond tomorrow, 2350 AD! (In some of the scenes there are space ships landing by backing down on their exhaust plumes. Now who ever heard of such a thing? SciFi, right? Wait...what's that, Elon? ) One of the SpaceX engineers was talking about a meeting they had. They were trying to figure out how to increase the size of the chutes to soften the landing a bit. They were going back and forth about circumferences, material, stress points, drag coefficients, etc. Suddenly Elon spoke up and said, "Why don't we just use 4 chutes?" And they did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 2 minutes ago, Arizona Gunfighter said: I've seen it about 20 times too, it's one of my favorite movies (I was a big fan of Teri Garr ) Oh yeah!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 23 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Orange what?? Orange, California, home of Rowdy Yates. It's close to Santa Ana, south of Anaheim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted August 8, 2020 Author Share Posted August 8, 2020 Glad ya didn't mean orange jumpsuit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 41 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: One of the SpaceX engineers was talking about a meeting they had. They were trying to figure out how to increase the size of the chutes to soften the landing a bit. They were going back and forth about circumferences, material, stress points, drag coefficients, etc. Suddenly Elon spoke up and said, "Why don't we just use 4 chutes?" And they did. Having worked on the parachute recovery system for the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters, I would love to compare the designs of both systems. I have tried to contact SpaceX to see if I could get some facts and figures, respecting their proprietary data, but so far haven't been able to get an email to them. SRB Decelerator Subsystem (SRB-DSS) used three 136 ft. diameter main chutes extracted by a single drogue. Landing speed was about 60 mph, but the booster weighed about 170,000 lbs on splashdown! I noted that the Crew Dragon chutes had a single reefing line on each chute, whereas we disreefed in two stages. Our reefing line cutters were of the guillotine type fired by a MIL-SPEC small rifle primer triggered by a firing pin triggered by a lanyard attached to the deployment bag, which in turn set off a time charge. There were two cutters in series on each line, in case one failed to fire. Once, after recovery one primer was found not to have fired even though the firing pin imprint was clearly visible. The vendor, Olin, was told by NASA to NEVER have another failure to fire. Olin replied that they expected one f-t-f per 20,000 primers (that's one per 20 cartons of primers), and if NASA didn't like that they could go qualify another vendor. End of that discussion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Glad ya didn't mean orange jumpsuit! Don't reedickulus. You can't make a jumpsuit out of oranges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 10 hours ago, Cat Brules said: They were both very much fun movies. i recall we waited in a very long line in Long Beach, CA to see the first showing of Star Wars. Cat Brules I was vacationing at MCRD Parris Island when it came out. I remember thinking that I hoped it stayed at the theaters until I got out of training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Brules Posted August 8, 2020 Share Posted August 8, 2020 1 hour ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: Orange what?? A couple of the original prints had the color all screwed up and the movie was orange. NO! OK, in case yout really did not know, he’s referring to the City of Orange, California. Cat Brules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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