So people dont shit themselves...

[thrash]

I saw a shuttle launch in person from the outdoor viewing area across the water from the launch tower. Absolutely amazing.

The coolest thing was the sensation of "Seeing the sound". You are over 1 mile away [iirc], so the shuttle ignites the SRBs and starts moving but you cannot hear anything. It is moving vertically and you still cannot hear anything.

But inbetween you and the launch pad is this lake.. and coming across the lake towards you, the ripples and waves are getting a moving line of white caps.. the sound and energy coming from the launch site is affecting the water's surface and you can see it progressing towards you, like in slow motion.

It was a pretty cool experience.

Our national space program is a joke now. It took less than 70 years to go from the first manned airplane [the Wright Brothers] to putting footsteps on the moon. What have we done since then? What will we accomplish at the end of the 2nd 70 years of flight? Will we even have passed the moon yet?

[STiSchucky]

scrubbed. itll be goin over the western states now

[YellowEvo]

Fail... coulda decided that last night to give me that extra half hour of sleep

[Eurofan]

How lame. Got up for nothing- I didn't hear shit from my location

[BlackEJ8]

Damn, would have been cool to see

[YellowEvo]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/20/weather-again-delays-shuttle-landing/?hpt=T2

Moved it to Cali

[amicheze]

Stupid fucking NASA. I'm going back to bed.

[Jim]

Yeah I got up too... damn weather lol

[JN210]

amicheze;306523 wrote:
Or set your alarm and get up, lazyass.

I did...and I actually got up...for nothing...

[ichibankilla]

I wonder how man people in town actually got up early check this out, only to find NOTHING waiting for them?
Haha, funny funny, let's pull one over on ND. I say FUCK NASA and FUCK CALIFORNIA!

[dont got a ride]

^^ you forgot the salt.... FUCK SALT

[YellowEvo]

ichibankilla;306568 wrote:
I wonder how man people in town actually got up early check this out, only to find NOTHING waiting for them?
Haha, funny funny, let's pull one over on ND. I say FUCK NASA and FUCK CALIFORNIA!

Didn't go to Cali, went to Florida again, the shuttle passed over Wyoming and Kansas on the path to there tho...