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Author Topic: Home! Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 09, 2005 05:13 AM                       They made it. Discovery is home. Only in America!!! -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5438 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Alaskan Yoter Knows what it's all about Member # 169 posted August 09, 2005 05:50 AM                   Do you ever sleep? Yipper good to see this one down. Posts: 235 | From: Wasilla, Alaska | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged keekee Knows what it's all about Member # 465 posted August 09, 2005 08:46 AM                       Yep! Just seen it on tv! Good to see them make it back ok! Brent -------------------- Kee's Custom Calls http://www.keescalls.com Posts: 295 | From: Southern Ohio | Registered: Dec 2004  |  IP: Logged NASA Knows what it's all about Member # 177 posted August 09, 2005 09:24 AM                   Wheew! We were all holding our breath on that one. Edwards AFB got them out of the air ASAP, even though Kennedy SC was open. Posts: 1168 | From: Typical White Person | Registered: Apr 2003  |  IP: Logged Rich 2,000th post PAKMAN Member # 112 posted August 09, 2005 11:25 AM                       Yup, I seen em touch down on T.V. Our old buddy NASA did it again. -------------------- If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder. Posts: 2854 | From: Iowa | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted August 09, 2005 01:13 PM                       Yeah, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. They need to reassess the program. Like the last trip; children's experiments. I'm sorry, this is not a valid reason for the risks and the expense. Time to develop the new technology they have been talking about, and retire the Shuttle. Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31462 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 09, 2005 01:54 PM                       Leonard, I agree on most points there, especially the one about the importance of children's experiments and moving onto the next generation of shbuttles. But, how much of the time that those missions have been up do you suppose they've been doing important stuff like (re)positioning satellites and the like to watch over our friends in the Middle East? I think that there's a lot more going on with them when they're up as far as national security goes that we simply don't know about. And I think that this program is what gives us such an edge on our competitiors in the world. And it's a big part of why the Chinese getting into space is so concerning to so many. Just a thought. Oh, and Todd, they landed at 7:10 a.m. my time. I'd been up for an hour. Best part of the day, man. -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5438 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted August 09, 2005 02:12 PM                       Well, I don't know if you have seen the proposals, Lance? They want to position the crew and payload above the rockets and use parachutes and land in water, all in the name of safety. I am 100% in agreement with maintaining our status in space, as long as we are moving on to new endevors, completing the space station and using it as a jump off point to Mars and beyond....if we can do these things and reduce risks to the crew. We can have 100 successes and one failure, and the failure is what we remember, and (of course) the Dems start a lynch party. The shuttle is old and risky. It's time to face reality. Develop other launch vehicles, or hang it up. That's my word. (with apologies to John Gibson) Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31462 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Byron South Knows what it's all about Member # 213 posted August 09, 2005 02:21 PM                       Glad they made it. I remember where I was when the last one crashed. I was coyote hunting on a big ranch out in West Texas when my buddy (Bucky) say's "WHAT WAS THAT" I said "What" he said "YOU DIDN'T HEAR THAT? IT SOUNDED LIKE A BOMB GOING OFF". Heck I'm deff as a door knob (Shooting without protection) Come to find out it was the shuttle and it sprayed debris all over Texas. With my luck I glad a piece didn't hit me in the head. Can you imagine the anxiety on that shuttle as they entered the atmosphere? Sure glad they made it. [ August 09, 2005, 02:24 PM: Message edited by: Byron South ] -------------------- "Coming to the Call" predator hunting videos. Volumes I, II, III and IV. Order two or more and pay no S&H www.comingtothecall.com Posts: 313 | From: Texas | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Byron South Knows what it's all about Member # 213 posted August 09, 2005 02:28 PM                       Leonard, Weve had two failures. One blew apart shortly after take off in the mid 80's, but that is still a good track record considering the task at hand. Byron -------------------- "Coming to the Call" predator hunting videos. Volumes I, II, III and IV. Order two or more and pay no S&H www.comingtothecall.com Posts: 313 | From: Texas | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged 2dogs Knows what it's all about Member # 649 posted August 09, 2005 02:51 PM                   Guess, I'm the only [black-sheep] on this one. I heard a couple of yrs ago. It costs us taxpayers around 65-million, just to launch that bird. Geez, wonder what else that could've went towards, Hmmmm. I do believe however, we should have a space program. But not like the one, thats operating now. To much fluff,...IMB. It doesn't amaze me, of all the [swinging meat] in this World. As well as the toys they need. I've seen the same things many times in my own home town, go figure . OK boys, put the boot to me black-sheep kirby Posts: 1034 | From: central Iowa | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Gerald Stewart Knows what it's all about Member # 162 posted August 09, 2005 02:53 PM                   Hey Byron, We were hunting on the Krooked River Ranch north of Abilene and heard it. I thought the rock quarry right down the way from the ranch must have been using some mighty big Dynamite. When we got back to the lodge it was on the big screen TV. I'll never forget it just like the first one in the 80's. You were in diapers then weren't you? Posts: 419 | From: Waco,Tx | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged Gerald Stewart Knows what it's all about Member # 162 posted August 09, 2005 02:57 PM                   2dogs, I am very pro space program because of all of the advancements in technology due to that effort. Hell Clinton spent $65,000,000 taking 1000 people to China for vacation. What did we learn from that? Posts: 419 | From: Waco,Tx | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged 2dogs Knows what it's all about Member # 649 posted August 09, 2005 03:15 PM                   "Power corrupts, Absolute power...Corrupts absolutely"...........Author? Leonard, I'm guessing you've been around the block...A few times, eh. [ August 09, 2005, 03:18 PM: Message edited by: 2dogs ] Posts: 1034 | From: central Iowa | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Tim Behle Administrator MacNeal Sector Member # 209 posted August 09, 2005 03:34 PM                       2dogs, Jay once told me that Leonard got his predator hunting start while hunting for Saber Toothed tigers while riding on the back of a modified Wooly Mammoth ( The original California rig ) One guy would drive the mammoth, while one blew the call and held a big shiny quartz to redirect the moonlight into the Animals eyes. He said Leonard was the best spear chucker of his time! He hasn't just been around the block, he made wheels out of them! -------------------- Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass kickin'. Posts: 3160 | From: Five Miles East of Vic, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted August 09, 2005 03:57 PM                       I was the technical adviser on "Quest for Fire". These young pups have no respect. <sheesh> -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31462 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged 2dogs Knows what it's all about Member # 649 posted August 09, 2005 04:05 PM                   Tim, Was Leonard a youth then??? or old? RATS!! I want a video of that Posts: 1034 | From: central Iowa | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged onecoyote Knows what it's all about Member # 129 posted August 09, 2005 04:09 PM                   Spear chucker? Spears were not invented at the time, we used rocks. Where do you think the phrase Rock & Roll-em come from. -------------------- Great minds discuss ideas.....Average minds discuss events.....Small minds discuss people.....Eleanor Roosevelt. Posts: 893 | From: Walker Lake Nevada. | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged 2dogs Knows what it's all about Member # 649 posted August 09, 2005 04:14 PM                   WHOOPS!, sorry Leonard. I meant that at Gerald. I have cataracts can't read to swell. But......BTW Leonard, is that really true, about the Sabor Tooth Tigers Posts: 1034 | From: central Iowa | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged NASA Knows what it's all about Member # 177 posted August 09, 2005 04:33 PM                   "I think that there's a lot more going on with them (shuttle) when they're up as far as national security goes that we simply don't know about." Lance, more than you know. Much more than can be talked about. Posts: 1168 | From: Typical White Person | Registered: Apr 2003  |  IP: Logged Cdog911 "There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell. Member # 7 posted August 09, 2005 05:27 PM                       You betcha, Nasa, and 2dogs, I'm all for the money we spend on the space program despite what the liberals contend we could do with all that money. Fact is, the technological developments that have come from NASA are what make our standard of living in this country what it is. I work hard - just like you. And my reward is that I can afford a few of those advances rather than spend more of my time making money for entitlement programs to support the people that don't see a need for space exploration. Or, making an honest day's wage for an honest day's work. Or, not getting food stamps. Or, ... you get my point. Another truth is that without the technical edge we have over the rest of the world because of the shuttle program, we wouldn't be able to support the millions who choose not to support themselves in the first place. That shuttle program is what has allowed us to operate militarily the way we do. Two and a half years in a hangar has hobbled us a bit. Laonard, I agree with you wholeheartedly. My truck is only ten years old while those shuttles are around thirty. Despite its "youth", I'd never dream about driving it as far as they took that shuttle this week. Maybe they need to make a "Ford" shuttle!!! [ August 09, 2005, 05:28 PM: Message edited by: Cdog911 ] -------------------- I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do. Posts: 5438 | From: The gun-lovin', gun-friendly wild, wild west | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged 2dogs Knows what it's all about Member # 649 posted August 09, 2005 06:02 PM                   Cdog911, Not everyone, thats not "into" the shuttle is a "liberal" LOL!, you know that though. --------- Touching on "welfare" Not [all] that are on it...Are "slackers"...well known as per usual. "Children have no say" There are...we all know. Pleanty of "dung-parents" out there. That don't give a "rats carcass", about [working] or [parental-responsibility]...thus putting their kids through a tough life...Been there, done that. Didn't volunteer as a kid neither. Thats why, I was laying on the couch...next to Gerald, whilst he was confessing about" spinners". Un-beknownst to Gerald . Need more anger management class's Almost healed-kirby [ August 09, 2005, 06:03 PM: Message edited by: 2dogs ] Posts: 1034 | From: central Iowa | Registered: Apr 2005  |  IP: Logged Byron South Knows what it's all about Member # 213 posted August 09, 2005 06:07 PM                       Gerald, I was just North of you around Crowel (Foard county). When we got back to the cabin was when we discovered what had happened and what the sound was. My wife was at home in East Texas and thought a huge wreck had happened. She said the sound rattled the windows. When the first one exploded in the 80's I was on a construction job in Dallas . Byron -------------------- "Coming to the Call" predator hunting videos. Volumes I, II, III and IV. Order two or more and pay no S&H www.comingtothecall.com Posts: 313 | From: Texas | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Todd Woodall Knows what it's all about Member # 439 posted August 09, 2005 06:38 PM                       When Challenger blew up I was watching it on TV in the classroom. We had written to the teacher on the shuttle, they brought in a TV for the special event. You can imagine the horror as 20 little kids watch it all unfold. Jeff and I were heading to the Hoods hunt on the second one. When we arrived to pick up a buddy he was watching it on TV. He said it rattled his windows also. What a sad day. Hope they get the bugs worked out and start the new program soon. Sounds alot safer for the crew, if that is possible. Todd -------------------- Texas Predator Pursuit videos 110 hunts on 2 DVD's www.texaspredatorpursuit.com Posts: 181 | From: Weatherford Texas | Registered: Nov 2004  |  IP: Logged Gerald Stewart Knows what it's all about Member # 162 posted August 09, 2005 07:18 PM                   I was an audio\visual salesman for a year Byron when I took a sabatical away from the game call business. I had made an early run to Temple that day and came home listening to my favorite Ricky Skaggs tape. When I walked into the showroom of the AV company I worked for everyone was crowded around one of the TVs. I walked up and made some wisecrack about everybody being on break and someone said "you mean you haven't heard". The crowd split to let me in and my first view of the TV was the replayed scene of the split vapor trail of the exploded shuttle. I will never forget that day. Man Todd, what a tough way to have to learn about the cold realities of life. That had to be a shocker. I will never forget the day President Kennedy was shot. The principle came in the classroom and announced the sad news. He almost couldn't talk and the teacher started tearing up. We were dismissed from class early that day and Dewey Kirby and I pumped our fists saying with glee "we get to go home early". I did not really know what the impact of that day was until I saw my mother crying when I got home. She explained it to me. Bet you were in your diapers for that one Byron. 1963 wasn't it? [ August 09, 2005, 07:27 PM: Message edited by: Gerald Stewart ] Posts: 419 | From: Waco,Tx | Registered: Mar 2003  |  IP: Logged

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