NewportBarGuy: Funded by Nino Brown and The Carter LLC.

I actually think it's the Stephen and Melinda Gates Foundation.

As an inner-city high school science teacher from Chicago

Kind of a weird statement. Chicago has "inner-city" magnet schools you know.

Is that a bike? Because if there is one thing that I want in a limited oxygen environment, its aerobics.

FTA: " I have had a student express a desire to be an engineer, but his high school does not offer a physics class."

This just blows my mind. I went to a podunk high school in a town (actually village) full of farming families, and we had a physics class. I don't understand how we can expect kids in these areas to break the cycle of poverty and ignorance if they don't even have access to basic sciences.

space_cowgirl: This just blows my mind. I went to a podunk high school in a town (actually village) full of farming families, and we had a physics class. I don't understand how we can expect kids in these areas to break the cycle of poverty and ignorance if they don't even have access to basic sciences.

just have to observe your daily enviroment. such as FPS, grain size, Ft. Lbs energy, initial muzzle velocity, ect...

Rolander: Is that a bike? Because if there is one thing that I want in a limited oxygen environment, its aerobics.

This. Not to mention, I imagine it's pretty hard to pedal in one of those suits. But hey, it's always great to see kids interested in something productive.

Didn't I just see the commercials for this showing on ABC Sunday night?

stolen

I was gonna post the onion pic from "NASA and Stoners in serious race to the moon" but couldn't find it before the laziness kicked in.

So you have to visualize it or look it up yourself, slackers.

Bacontastesgood: I was gonna post the onion pic from "NASA and Stoners in serious race to the moon" but couldn't find it before the laziness kicked in.

So you have to visualize it or look it up yourself, slackers.

Couldn't find any pics.

The Onion, 10/4/68 "Hippies, NASA Race for Moon."

The space race between NASA and the hippies is more heated than ever,
with both of the astronautic super-powers vying to be the first to land a
man on the moon. "NASA will win the race to the moon, and the world will
see a United States astronaut, not a longhair, walk on the moon before the
turn of the decade," Apollo 10 Mission Director Gus Lance said Thursday.
Despite NASA's confidence, hippie-space-program sources report that the
moon will be within their reach in mere months. "Freakonauts have already
outdistanced NASA in their high rate of success with manned missions
throughout the Tibetan Book of the Dead and cosmic voyages Beyond Total
Awareness," said Freedog Osmosis, head of the prestigious Haight-Ashbury
Center for Astraldynamic Research. "And current missions are flying higher
than ever. Take me, for example. I'm sitting right in front of you. Yet,
even as we speak, I'm orbiting at tremendous altitudes." "We are 12 to 16
weeks away from having all the vibes in place to launch, orbit and land a
hippie on the moon," Osmosis said, "as well as to return him safely to a big
oversized floor pillow after wear-off and subsequent crashpad re-entry
burn."

With the Lunar Excursion Module proven flightworthy in recent Apollo
test missions, it is only a matter of time, NASA scientists argue, before
they win the race to the moon. However, hippies say, a NASA victory in the
space race is by no means certain. "From such early victories as the Byrds'
historic eight-mile-high test flight above San Francisco Bay to recent
trips by The Rolling Stones as far as 60,000 light-years from home, it's
clear that our radical, substance-based approach to space travel boasts
significant advantages over NASA's more conservative methods," said
spacecadet hippychick Raven Transcendence. Trancendence added that the
hippie space program also enjoys a clear economic advantage over NASA:
While the cost of a NASA lunar mission is estimated at $600 million, the
hippie space program, she said, can reach the moon with just a dime bag.
Hippie space exploration, however, has not been without its
setbacks. In June, shortly after setting his controls for the hear of the
sun, Floyd Commander Syd Barrett lost control of his 50-milligram capsule
and veered wildly off course. According to hippie scientists, he is
currently lost somewhere near Neptune. The scientists project that the
Floyd program will not match NASA's Apollo 8 orbit of the dark side of the
moon untill the mid-1970s. "Yes, hippie space travel does have its
problems," Osmosis said. "The severe crash-and-burns that follow intense
spaceflight can be devastating, and launch windows are dependent on the
week-to-week booking schedule at the Fillmore West. Nonetheless, we have
repeatedly reached the Sea of Inner Peace and Sea of Undulating Joy-Vibes,
and we're confident that a flower child will touch down on the Sea of
Tranquility soon, certainly no later than the big Woodstock festival next
summer."

And you can't be an engineer if you can't read or do math, kids.

"On the team, there are students who struggle with basic math skills, and some of these high school students are reading at a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade level."

Maybe this is the motivation they need to start taking school learning seriously.

garkola: And you can't be an engineer if you can't read or do math, kids.

"On the team, there are students who struggle with basic math skills, and some of these high school students are reading at a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade level."

Maybe this is the motivation they need to start taking school learning seriously.

Relevant

garkola: And you can't be an engineer if you can't read or do math, kids.

"On the team, there are students who struggle with basic math skills, and some of these high school students are reading at a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade level."

Maybe this is the motivation they need to start taking school learning seriously.

Though, in all fairness, it's entirely possible to be an engineer and write at a fifth grade level.

from Wiki: Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 remains the most recent manned Moon landing and the most recent manned flight beyond low Earth orbit.

hard to believe it's been 30 frickin' years since we went to the moon.

mama2tnt: from Wiki: Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program. Launched at 12:33 a.m. EST on December 7, 1972, with a three-member crew consisting of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 remains the most recent manned Moon landing and the most recent manned flight beyond low Earth orbit.

hard to believe it's been 30 frickin' years since we went to the moon.

Make that 40, I think you lost a decade somewhere.

bastian_74: [www.jetsetterfresh.com image 640x432]

The United States of Space

35 U.S.C. 105 Inventions in outer space.

(a) Any invention made, used, or sold in outer space on a space object or component thereof under the jurisdiction or control of the United States shall be considered to be made, used or sold within the United States for the purposes of this title, except with respect to any space object or component thereof that is specifically identified and otherwise provided for by an international agreement to which the United States is a party, or with respect to any space object or component thereof that is carried on the registry of a foreign state in accordance with the Convention on Registration of Objects Launched into Outer Space.

/relevant

Grumpyoldgeek: mama2tnt: hard to believe it's been 30 frickin' years since we went to the moon.

Make that 40, I think you lost a decade somewhere.

Aw, geez. Please don't tell the kids.

these high school students are reading at a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade level. I have had a student express a desire to be an engineer, but his high school does not offer a physics class.

What a waste of time. These kids should be in remedial programs trying to become more than just oxygen users. They have 6 to 9 years of catching up to do and pretending that they're going to be engineers is just as silly as shoving a piano at them and pretending they're going to go to Julliard. They might as well just give up and go become something totally useless like a community organizers.

That's one hell of a bike lock, bike rack combo on the right wheel.

I'll take two.

"Think they really went to the moon?

They say they went to the moon.

There ain't no gravity out there.

That mean we can get high and never come down."

OscarTamerz: these high school students are reading at a third-, fourth- or fifth-grade level. I have had a student express a desire to be an engineer, but his high school does not offer a physics class.

What a waste of time. These kids should be in remedial programs trying to become more than just oxygen users. They have 6 to 9 years of catching up to do and pretending that they're going to be engineers is just as silly as shoving a piano at them and pretending they're going to go to Julliard. They might as well just give up and go become something totally useless like a community organizers.

Nicely done.