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#822 From: "Michelle Evans" <mach25@...>
Date: Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:21 pm
Subject: Re: Moonshot
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The lip synch was done very specifically anytime we were hearing their voices
over the radio versus hearing them inside the spacecraft, so there was good
rhyme and reason to how they accomplished that.

I agree that I was surprised at the quality of the film and I think it will
stand up better as time goes by. Sort of like in 2001: How many of us thought
the very first time that we heard it, that just hearing breathing all the time
was annoying. Yet we now can't imagine that it could be done properly in any
other way.

They did screw up a couple things here and there, but overall they definitely
stuck to the "script" and they should get a lot of credit for that.

Michelle

#821 From: "Combs, Mike" <mikecombs@...>
Date: Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:27 pm
Subject: Moonshot
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From: Collin R. Skocik

> Last night I watched the new TV movie Moonshot, the latest small-screen
> dramatization of the historic flight of Apollo 11.

My impression is much the same as yours.  One thing I seriously questioned,
though, was the depiction of Mrs. Armstrong getting to read the speech prepared
for Nixon in case the astronauts were unable to return.  As far as I knew,
nobody outside of the Whitehouse was aware of that speech until it was released
in 1999.

> The questionable decision to have
> the actors lip-synch over the actual voices of Neil Armstrong and Buzz
> Aldrin is appropriately respectful, yet somehow annoying - especially since
> I could detect no rhyme or reason as to when or why that was done.

I found that a bit distracting.  To me it would have been sufficient to have the
actors saying the lines, but closely following the cadence and rhythm of the
original.


Regards,

Mike Combs

#820 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:28 pm
Subject: Moonshot
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Last night I watched the new TV movie Moonshot, the latest small-screen dramatization of the historic flight of Apollo 11.  I have to say, I liked it.  I was pleasantly surprised.  I went in expecting a cheap, melodramatic, poorly-acted, poorly-written re-enactment on cardboard sets with some gravelly-voiced narrator playing up all the deadly danger and exorbitant cost and so on.  What I got was a lavish, well-acted, well-written, accurate, stylish movie comparable to From the Earth to the Moon.  I wish I had watched it when it aired; I found out this morning that it was timed so that Neil Armstrong’s first step on the Moon was timed to coincide with the time Neil actually stepped onto the Moon.  It would have been a good way to spend the anniversary.

 

Despite the movie’s disclaimer of speculation and poetic license, I found the movie to be very accurate.  The only thing that stood out to me was Michael Collins’ spine injury.  I had thought he had merely injured his shoulder.  But I can’t imagine the filmmakers would have just made that up, so for the time being I’ll assume that they were right and I was wrong.

 

The actor who played Neil Armstrong did a marvelous job.  To a certain extent they played up the Mystery of Neil Armstrong; I’ve come to the conclusion that there really is no mystery.  Neil has a simple way of looking at the world and says what’s on his mind.  Nevertheless, he does come across as enigmatic, so I don’t have a problem with the movie’s portrayal.  They had a good Buzz too; occasionally I thought maybe he was a bit over the top, but then again, I’ve seen Buzz act like that.  Michael Collins came across as kind of a cantankerous SOB, and although I’ve never seen him anything less than charming, I’ve heard stories to the effect that he can be a bit grouchy.  Certain key individuals such as Chris Kraft, Bob Gilruth, Werner Von Braun, and Deke Slayton were strangely absent, or if they were there they weren’t identified, but through the use of file footage, we got Gene Kranz and Charlie Duke playing themselves!

 

The writing was excellent.  My commendations to a screenwriter who not only did his research, but understood what he was researching.  The script is brimming with details, anecdotes, quirks, insights, and a healthy dose of respect for the subject matter.  I didn’t recognize the name of the writer, but I think the script more than anything else is what makes this movie memorable.

 

The directing is surprisingly stylish.  The questionable decision to have the actors lip-synch over the actual voices of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is appropriately respectful, yet somehow annoying – especially since I could detect no rhyme or reason as to when or why that was done.  But it did bring home the historical weight of the event, and I think would have been more powerful had I watched it when it aired on the anniversary.  The odd camera angles and visual distortion give the scenes on the Moon a dreamlike quality.  When the narrator breaks in awkwardly to explain the problem with the ascent engine circuit breaker, it feels as though the movie’s simply running out of time and we’re hurrying to wrap things up, but the movie recovers quickly thanks to the strong performaces.

 

The special effects are above average for TV.  They created a beautiful lunar landscape, and when Neil and Buzz are setting up the flag, for a moment I thought I was looking at actual 16mm footage from the Apollo 14 ALSEP site.  The simulation of one-sixth gee is somewhere between lame and nonexistent, though there’s a nice shot of Neil bouncing along.  It looks to me like their lunar module is too small too, though I’d have to go back and watch it again to be sure.  The spaceship sets are beautiful, Apollo 13-quality.  The biggest drawback is the transposition and docking with the lunar module, which may well be the worst depiction of any space maneuver ever put to screen.  It’s hard to evaluate the quality of the CGI work, since I was watching a poor-quality video taped off of TV, with ads and graphics crawling all over the screen all through the movie.

 

But I was suitably impressed, and I’ll be adding this to my DVD collection.  I can’t help but wonder how this movie compares to Apollo 11, which I’ve never seen.


#819 From: "farkle.freddy" <farkle.freddy@...>
Date: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:18 pm
Subject: Re: Warning sound
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Excellent.  That is the coolest and most alarming alarm in existence.

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "farkle.freddy" <farkle.freddy@>
wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone have an mp3 of the klaxon that sounded in the pod before Dave
blew the bolts to re-enter the Discovery?  Thanks.
> > FF
> >
> I don't have mp3 capability, but I posted a wav file in "files"...if that
helps.
>
> Collin
>

#818 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:31 pm
Subject: RE: Holographic rendering of 2001 poster spotted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn used CD store [1 Attachment]
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Ha! Brilliant!  That’s my favorite 2001 poster.  – Well, except maybe the one with the Discovery orbiting Jupiter with the spacepod in the foreground with flame billowing from its engine.  (I’ve never seen any approved schematics of the spacepod, I wonder if that really was supposed to be an engine…)

 

Collin

 


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Subject: [2001aspaceodyssey] Holographic rendering of 2001 poster spotted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn used CD store [1 Attachment]

 

 

Earwax, on Bedford Ave., is apparently a fan as well.

Mark McKennon
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Brooklyn NY 11215
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#817 From: Mark McKennon <scoutman12001@...>
Date: Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:57 pm
Subject: Holographic rendering of 2001 poster spotted in Williamsburg, Brooklyn used CD store
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Earwax, on Bedford Ave., is apparently a fan as well.

Mark McKennon
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Brooklyn NY  11215
718.768.5539 (ph/f) / 917.744.8730 (c)
www.scoutman.com
www.globalproducer.com/ID11526

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#816 From: "Michelle Evans" <mach25@...>
Date: Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:07 pm
Subject: Re: Now that we're asking questions ...
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I would not think this would be a continuity error. Remember that when the first
EVA took place, they had to take an AE-35 unit out of storage, then went EVA,
pulled out the old unit and replaced it with the backup unit, returning the
original to the pod bay test bench. Once they discussed the idea of testing HAL,
they would have then had to take the old unit from the test bench, go EVA,
remove the backup unit, then replace it with the original to see if HAL's
prediction of failure would come true. In the end, they would also most likely
replace the backup AE-35 to its original spot in storage, unless and until it
was needed.

Michelle

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
wrote:
>
> No, this shot isn't in the film -- I know, the entire film is impressed onto
my brain in precise detail -- but I suspect in was in the footage that was
deleted (and probably no longer exists).  I know there was footage of Bowman
going into the storage area and retracting the replacement AE-35 (I've seen
photos of it), and I also have heard that originally Poole's EVA was a perfect,
shot-for-shot duplicate of Bowman's, until he's killed, so it stands to reason
that the same shot of Bowman retrieving the AE-35 was duplicated by Poole.
>
> If so, this would have been a continuity error, since Poole was putting back
the AE-35 that Bowman had retreived, and that unit was on the workbench in the
pod bay, not in the storage area.  I've always been curious to see the original
cut, but from what I've heard, the final version is an improvement.
>
> Collin

#815 From: Christian Bobak <kubrickrules2001@...>
Date: Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:33 am
Subject: Re: Re: Now that we're asking questions ...
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So it's an actual shot from the film, then? It sure looks like one, but again, I've never seen it in the actual film (the entire film is impressed onto my brain in precise detail as well), so it's been bugging me for ages now. Either way, I LOVE this shot. Must be from the missing 19 minutes.

Christian

--- On Mon, 7/20/09, Collin R. Skocik <collinskocik@...> wrote:

From: Collin R. Skocik <collinskocik@...>
Subject: [2001aspaceodyssey] Re: Now that we're asking questions ...
To: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com
Received: Monday, July 20, 2009, 5:03 PM

No, this shot isn't in the film -- I know, the entire film is impressed onto my brain in precise detail -- but I suspect in was in the footage that was deleted (and probably no longer exists).  I know there was footage of Bowman going into the storage area and retracting the replacement AE-35 (I've seen photos of it), and I also have heard that originally Poole's EVA was a perfect, shot-for-shot duplicate of Bowman's, until he's killed, so it stands to reason that the same shot of Bowman retrieving the AE-35 was duplicated by Poole.

If so, this would have been a continuity error, since Poole was putting back the AE-35 that Bowman had retreived, and that unit was on the workbench in the pod bay, not in the storage area.  I've always been curious to see the original cut, but from what I've heard, the final version is an improvement.

Collin

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, Mark McKennon <scoutman12001@...> wrote:
>
> Are you sure this is not in the film? I haven't watched 2001 in a
> while but I recall that this was a brief shot when Poole is
> prepping to go out to get the AE-35.
>
> Mark McKennon
>
>
>
>
> On Mon Jul 20 12:06:32 CDT 2009, Christian Bobak
> <kubrickrules2001@...> wrote:
>
> > Great to have that wav file of the klaxon. Now here's a question
> > I've been meaning to ask for ages. I've been using the following
> > picture as the group home page photo on both my Yahoo and
> > Care2.com groups:
> >
>
> > I love this thing and have used it for years. Trouble is, I can't
> > actually find the scene in 2001 where this would have appeared.
> > The closest I could find was a scene where Bowman was facing the
> > other way and the corridor certainly wasn't this yellow. Is this
> > even a photo or screen capture to begin with, or an elaborate,
> > life-like painting? I thought it was a frame from the film but it
> > isn't (unless it's part of the missing 19 minutes of footage).
> >
> > Anyone know the origin of this picture/painting?
> >
> > Christian
>




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#814 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:07 pm
Subject: Happy Moonday to all!
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“That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind!”  Who else is going to be taping the original CBS broadcast when it airs tonight on the History Channel?

 

Collin


#813 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Mon Jul 20, 2009 9:03 pm
Subject: Re: Now that we're asking questions ...
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No, this shot isn't in the film -- I know, the entire film is impressed onto my
brain in precise detail -- but I suspect in was in the footage that was deleted
(and probably no longer exists).  I know there was footage of Bowman going into
the storage area and retracting the replacement AE-35 (I've seen photos of it),
and I also have heard that originally Poole's EVA was a perfect, shot-for-shot
duplicate of Bowman's, until he's killed, so it stands to reason that the same
shot of Bowman retrieving the AE-35 was duplicated by Poole.

If so, this would have been a continuity error, since Poole was putting back the
AE-35 that Bowman had retreived, and that unit was on the workbench in the pod
bay, not in the storage area.  I've always been curious to see the original cut,
but from what I've heard, the final version is an improvement.

Collin

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, Mark McKennon <scoutman12001@...>
wrote:
>
> Are you sure this is not in the film? I haven't watched 2001 in a
> while but I recall that this was a brief shot when Poole is
> prepping to go out to get the AE-35.
>
> Mark McKennon
>
>
>
>
> On Mon Jul 20 12:06:32 CDT 2009, Christian Bobak
> <kubrickrules2001@...> wrote:
>
> > Great to have that wav file of the klaxon. Now here's a question
> > I've been meaning to ask for ages. I've been using the following
> > picture as the group home page photo on both my Yahoo and
> > Care2.com groups:
> >
>
> > I love this thing and have used it for years. Trouble is, I can't
> > actually find the scene in 2001 where this would have appeared.
> > The closest I could find was a scene where Bowman was facing the
> > other way and the corridor certainly wasn't this yellow. Is this
> > even a photo or screen capture to begin with, or an elaborate,
> > life-like painting? I thought it was a frame from the film but it
> > isn't (unless it's part of the missing 19 minutes of footage).
> >
> > Anyone know the origin of this picture/painting?
> >
> > Christian
>

#812 From: Mark McKennon <scoutman12001@...>
Date: Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:57 pm
Subject: Re: Now that we're asking questions ...
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Are you sure this is not in the film? I haven't watched 2001 in a
while but I recall that this was a brief shot when Poole is
prepping to go out to get the AE-35.

Mark McKennon




On Mon Jul 20 12:06:32 CDT 2009, Christian Bobak
<kubrickrules2001@...> wrote:

> Great to have that wav file of the klaxon. Now here's a question
> I've been meaning to ask for ages. I've been using the following
> picture as the group home page photo on both my Yahoo and
> Care2.com groups:
>

> I love this thing and have used it for years. Trouble is, I can't
> actually find the scene in 2001 where this would have appeared.
> The closest I could find was a scene where Bowman was facing the
> other way and the corridor certainly wasn't this yellow. Is this
> even a photo or screen capture to begin with, or an elaborate,
> life-like painting? I thought it was a frame from the film but it
> isn't (unless it's part of the missing 19 minutes of footage).
>
> Anyone know the origin of this picture/painting?
>
> Christian

#811 From: Christian Bobak <kubrickrules2001@...>
Date: Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:06 pm
Subject: Now that we're asking questions ...
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Great to have that wav file of the klaxon. Now here's a question I've been meaning to ask for ages. I've been using the following picture as the group home page photo on both my Yahoo and Care2.com groups:

corridor.jpg




I love this thing and have used it for years. Trouble is, I can't actually find the scene in 2001 where this would have appeared. The closest I could find was a scene where Bowman was facing the other way and the corridor certainly wasn't this yellow. Is this even a photo or screen capture to begin with, or an elaborate, life-like painting? I thought it was a frame from the film but it isn't (unless it's part of the missing 19 minutes of footage).

Anyone know the origin of this picture/painting?

Christian




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#809 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Mon Jul 20, 2009 4:39 pm
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--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "farkle.freddy" <farkle.freddy@...>
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> Does anyone have an mp3 of the klaxon that sounded in the pod before Dave blew
the bolts to re-enter the Discovery?  Thanks.
> FF
>
I don't have mp3 capability, but I posted a wav file in "files"...if that helps.

Collin

#808 From: "farkle.freddy" <farkle.freddy@...>
Date: Sun Jul 19, 2009 9:12 pm
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Does anyone have an mp3 of the klaxon that sounded in the pod before Dave blew
the bolts to re-enter the Discovery?  Thanks.
FF

#807 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:28 pm
Subject: RE: Happy anniversary to Apollo 11!
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Only if you’re using base 10.

 

Collin

 


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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 1:01 PM
To: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [2001aspaceodyssey] Happy anniversary to Apollo 11!

 

 

If it really did climb majestically on July 16, 1929, then today would be the 80th anniversay. ;)

Christian


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From: Collin R. Skocik <collinskocik@comcast.net>
Subject: [2001aspaceodyssey] Happy anniversary to Apollo 11!
To: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com
Received: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 12:57 PM

 

It was forty years ago today that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on the greatest adventure in human history.  At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1929, the giant Saturn V majestically climbed on a pillar of brilliant orange flame and disappeared into a tiny white dot in the deep blue Florida sky.  In a manner strongly reflective of our favorite movie, the three adventurers approached their epic journey much as I approach my daily captioning duties: a series of tasks to perform.  Forty years later, the space shuttle Endeavour is on its way to the International Space Station on one of the last construction missions, and one of the last flights of the venerable Space Transportation System.  As NASA’s assigned mission stands in stark contrast with its funding, I wonder where we’ll stand on Apollo 11’s eightieth anniversary.  Will we still be looking back in time at a lost future?  Or will we be looking back at the Earth from Mars?

 

Collin

 

 


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#806 From: Christian Bobak <kubrickrules2001@...>
Date: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:00 pm
Subject: Re: Happy anniversary to Apollo 11!
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If it really did climb majestically on July 16, 1929, then today would be the 80th anniversay. ;)

Christian


--- On Thu, 7/16/09, Collin R. Skocik <collinskocik@...> wrote:

From: Collin R. Skocik <collinskocik@...>
Subject: [2001aspaceodyssey] Happy anniversary to Apollo 11!
To: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com
Received: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 12:57 PM



It was forty years ago today that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on the greatest adventure in human history.  At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1929, the giant Saturn V majestically climbed on a pillar of brilliant orange flame and disappeared into a tiny white dot in the deep blue Florida sky.  In a manner strongly reflective of our favorite movie, the three adventurers approached their epic journey much as I approach my daily captioning duties: a series of tasks to perform.  Forty years later, the space shuttle Endeavour is on its way to the International Space Station on one of the last construction missions, and one of the last flights of the venerable Space Transportation System.  As NASA’s assigned mission stands in stark contrast with its funding, I wonder where we’ll stand on Apollo 11’s eightieth anniversary.  Will we still be looking back in time at a lost future?  Or will we be looking back at the Earth from Mars?

 

Collin





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#805 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:57 pm
Subject: Happy anniversary to Apollo 11!
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It was forty years ago today that Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on the greatest adventure in human history.  At 9:32 a.m. on July 16, 1929, the giant Saturn V majestically climbed on a pillar of brilliant orange flame and disappeared into a tiny white dot in the deep blue Florida sky.  In a manner strongly reflective of our favorite movie, the three adventurers approached their epic journey much as I approach my daily captioning duties: a series of tasks to perform.  Forty years later, the space shuttle Endeavour is on its way to the International Space Station on one of the last construction missions, and one of the last flights of the venerable Space Transportation System.  As NASA’s assigned mission stands in stark contrast with its funding, I wonder where we’ll stand on Apollo 11’s eightieth anniversary.  Will we still be looking back in time at a lost future?  Or will we be looking back at the Earth from Mars?

 

Collin


#804 From: "Michelle Evans" <mach25@...>
Date: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:49 am
Subject: Re: My letter to the president
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It is not a problem of wanting to deorbit the ISS in 2016, it is simply that
this administration has not made any commitment to it past that point--yet. So
there is definitely a difference in making plans versus just saying they don't
know about funding yet.

The real thing to worry about is that the way things are going, human
spaceflight capability from the United states may completely disappear under
this administration. Funding has already been reduced for the 2010 budget. The
Orion/Ares program is years behind schedule and billions underfunded, and the
capabilities of the system have been curtailed to the point that, at best, it
will only ferry astronauts back and forth to the ISS and never go anywhere else,
like the Moon or Mars, as intended by the original design. Any follow-on
programs, such as Ares V heavy lift launcher and Altair lunar lander are on
indefinite hold.

Things are truly falling apart right in the space program at the moment, but the
ISS is the program least affected.

Michelle

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wrote:
>
> For those of you who do not yet know, NASA now wants to de-orbit the
International Space Station in 2016.  Personally I think that's absolutely
ridiculous, and I just sent a letter to the president asserting my position on
the subject:

#803 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:50 pm
Subject: My letter to the president
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For those of you who do not yet know, NASA now wants to de-orbit the International Space Station in 2016.  Personally I think that’s absolutely ridiculous, and I just sent a letter to the president asserting my position on the subject:

 

Dear Mr. President:

 

It has come to my attention that the Space Policy Review Panel has recommended that the International Space Station be de-orbited as early as 2016, decades ahead of schedule.  As an American taxpayer, I am against this recommendation for the following reasons:

 

  1. It is not our space station.  It is an international space station, and it is therefore not our call to destroy it after a mere six years of full operational life.
  2. The United States taxpayers have poured billions of dollars and ten years of construction into the International Space Station.  A mere six years is not an acceptable payoff for that investment.
  3. For the first time in history, humans are living permanently off the Earth, an achievement comparable to Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon.  Terminating the Space Station early is a nonsensical waste, as illogical as canceling the last three moon missions even though the spaceships and hardware for those missions had been built.
  4. The review panel has evidently decided that the International Space Station does not fit with NASA’s new mission of returning to the Moon and going to Mars.  This is simply not true.  Most at NASA – at least at Kennedy Space Center – have repeatedly asserted that the Space Station is a vital step to Mars.  Astronaut Thomas Mattingly has stated flat-out that we need the Space Station if we want to go to Mars.  Astronaut John Blaha, who spent four months aboard Mir, was more specific that we cannot put astronauts on the surface of Mars in the condition in which they are returning to Earth from the ISS; hence more research aboard the ISS is vital before we can attempt a mission to Mars.
  5. The International Space Station provides research, technology, services and infrastructure beyond the goals of NASA, affecting everything from biomedical research to the classroom.  Losing the Space Station would be a tragedy for the country and for the world.

 

Mr. President, if our space program is to succeed, we must stop restricting it to mere components.  The Space Transportation System was originally conceived to consist of the Space Shuttle, Space Tug, and Space Station; but budget restrictions pared it down only to the Space Shuttle.  We don’t treat the DOD that way, do we?  We don’t fund the building of a bomber but not the bombs.  We can return to the Moon without getting rid of the International Space Station.  And we cannot go to Mars without the International Space Station.  I urge you to reconsider.

 

Thank you for your attention, and good luck.

 

 

 

 

Collin R. Skocik

 


#802 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:23 am
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My apologies for not being more clear – the purpose of my posting was to speculate on how (or if) the human race could rebuild after such a catastrophe, and who would inherit the Earth.  You bring up some compelling points, and you’ve made me wonder if perhaps I enjoy pondering nuclear war simply because it’s yesterday’s nightmare, and it keeps me from thinking about today’s real and possibly imminent disasters such as biological terrorist attacks and global warming – I live at the beach in flat-as-a-pancake Florida; Florida won’t do well with sea level rise, or even Katrina-level hurricanes.

 

Now that I’ve depressed everybody…Wow, we’re going back to the Moon!  The first Ares launch is scheduled for August!  The Large Hadron Collider is finished!  The world has puppies in it!  Help any?

 

Collin

 


From: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com [mailto:2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Mark McKennon
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:48 PM
To: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [2001aspaceodyssey] thought experiment

 




And your question or thesis in this posting is....?

You may be posing less of a thought experiment than a daymare that
tempts me to have several happy beers and continue thinking of
exploding nukes purely, solely in the context of movies.

Although the mad, aggressive detonation of at least one nuke is
somewhere in our future, given the supply of poorly guarded or
loose and soon to be expanding fisionable material there is in the
world. Or, for that matter, the brazen, ingenious hijacking of a
Pakistani weapon outright.

I read Alas Babylon. And The Fate of the Earth. And Fail Safe.
And other titles. All compelling fiction and morality plays but
about as heartening as having a sleep-over in a dank morgue.

It's not clear from the trailer that the narrative of this new
movie, The Road, is sparked by nuclear war, but the practical
effects of the unspecified event(s) (sudden climate catastrophe, a
la Day After Tomorrow ?) are indistinguishable from H bombs:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/

Watch the trailers. Very compelling. Perhaps, at the rate the
human race is going, every day this becomes slightly less fiction
than prophesy.

I too doubt the possibility of deliberate, full scale nuclear war.
Ignorant and selfish we are collectively, but I don't see our
current management problems rising to the level of mass suicide.
Especially as now some smarter heads of state seem to have
concluded that the best way short of military action to convince
Iran and N. Korea to cease nuke development is for US-USSR to
permanently remove half of all their arsenals, as Obama and Putin
may be discussing by year's end. If we decrease our stockpiles
they will have zero legit excuse to increase theirs. On the other
hand, that is a logical chess move requiring people of reason and
compassion to gain and hold power, which is far from assured, not
even in this country, given the low lucidity of shrill right-wing
media and the 2nd Amendment fanatics arming themselves for WW IV.

But the operative word in that first sentence is "current" -- from
now to 10 or 20 years out. After that...all bets are off.
Climate change however wherever it occurs will become the very mad
monster. If sea levels rise 2 feet and drought ravages
crop-growing regions and water supplies shrink and unchecked
disease rises to levels of the 1918 flu -- that's an apocalypse in
itself. The UN recently estimated that "less-than-severe" climate
change could create up to 200 million refugees. That's extreme
disruption on the way to anarchy and genocide that would dwarf
WWII.

We need to start getting off this planet. For it's own sake, but
also as a matter of survival elsewhere. Just in case.

I think I'll go to buy a six-pack now. Cheers!

Mark McKennon

On Tue Jun 16 15:27:08 CDT 2009, "Collin R. Skocik"
<collinskocik@comcast.net> wrote:

> Some years ago I became rather irrationally obsessive about the
> possibility of nuclear war. I had my fallout room picked out, my
> alternate bathroom, my canned goods and water, I'd worked out how
> much damage my town would suffer depending on megatonnage, etc.
> etc....I don't know how I fell into that morbid state -- oh, yes
> I do...I read Pat Frank's Alas Babylon...
>
> Well, anyway, supposing some Strangeloveish scenario were to
> trigger a full-scale nuclear war; I often hear it said that not
> only is it possible, but it's more likely today than it was
> during the Cold War. (Actually, I think a nuclear war is
> inevitable; as long as the weapons exist, someday someone will
> use them, but I think a global nuclear holocaust a la The Day
> After is unlikely.) But supposing some computer glitch or sudden
> international crisis or crazed general were to trigger a nuclear
> war which devastates a large percentage of the East and West --
> I've heard nuclear winter is out, we'd more have a "nuclear
> autumn," but I think that's a small consolation in light of the
> mass destruction, wildfires, lethal radioactive fallout, and the
> end of our prosperity and way of life... Given the cold, the
> plagues, the radiation, the complete loss of the technological
> infrastructure we've come to rely on for everything, the loss of
> medical care, waste disposal...well, you know the drill...would
> anyone survive in the long term? Would the human race face
> extinction?
>
> I personally don't think so, though all the humans might die in
> the affected lands. I think the southern hemisphere and the
> Third World would rise to power...but I wonder who, how long it
> would take, and whether a modicum of modernity would be restored
> to the world...the Internet, satellites, cars.
>
> Collin
>
>


#801 From: Mark McKennon <scoutman12001@...>
Date: Tue Jun 16, 2009 10:48 pm
Subject: Re: thought experiment
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And your question or thesis in this posting is....?

You may be posing less of a thought experiment than a daymare that
tempts me to have several happy beers and continue thinking of
exploding nukes purely, solely in the context of movies.

Although the mad, aggressive detonation of at least one nuke is
somewhere in our future, given the supply of poorly guarded or
loose and soon to be expanding fisionable material there is in the
world.  Or, for that matter, the brazen, ingenious hijacking of a
Pakistani weapon outright.

I read Alas Babylon. And The Fate of the Earth. And Fail Safe.
And other titles. All compelling fiction and morality plays but
about as heartening as having a sleep-over in a dank morgue.

It's not clear from the trailer that the narrative of this new
movie, The Road, is sparked by nuclear war, but the practical
effects of the unspecified event(s) (sudden climate catastrophe, a
la Day After Tomorrow ?) are indistinguishable from H bombs:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/

Watch the trailers.  Very compelling.  Perhaps, at the rate the
human race is going, every day this becomes slightly less fiction
than prophesy.

I too doubt the possibility of deliberate, full scale nuclear war.
  Ignorant and selfish we are collectively, but I don't see our
current management problems rising to the level of mass suicide.
Especially as now some smarter heads of state seem to have
concluded that the best way short of military action to convince
Iran and N. Korea to cease nuke development is for US-USSR to
permanently remove half of all their arsenals, as Obama and Putin
may be discussing by year's end.  If we decrease our stockpiles
they will have zero legit excuse to increase theirs.  On the other
hand, that is a logical chess move requiring people of reason and
compassion to gain and hold power, which is far from assured, not
even in this country, given the low lucidity of shrill right-wing
media and the 2nd Amendment fanatics arming themselves for WW IV.

But the operative word in that first sentence is "current" -- from
now to 10 or 20 years out.  After that...all bets are off.
Climate change however wherever it occurs will become the very mad
monster.  If sea levels rise 2 feet and drought ravages
crop-growing regions and water supplies shrink and unchecked
disease rises to levels of the 1918 flu -- that's an apocalypse in
itself.  The UN recently estimated that "less-than-severe" climate
change could create up to 200 million refugees.  That's extreme
disruption on the way to anarchy and genocide that would dwarf
WWII.

We need to start getting off this planet.  For it's own sake, but
also as a matter of survival elsewhere.  Just in case.

I think I'll go to buy a six-pack now.  Cheers!


Mark McKennon



On Tue Jun 16 15:27:08 CDT 2009, "Collin R. Skocik"
<collinskocik@...> wrote:

> Some years ago I became rather irrationally obsessive about the
> possibility of nuclear war.  I had my fallout room picked out, my
> alternate bathroom, my canned goods and water, I'd worked out how
> much damage my town would suffer depending on megatonnage, etc.
> etc....I don't know how I fell into that morbid state -- oh, yes
> I do...I read Pat Frank's Alas Babylon...
>
> Well, anyway, supposing some Strangeloveish scenario were to
> trigger a full-scale nuclear war; I often hear it said that not
> only is it possible, but it's more likely today than it was
> during the Cold War.  (Actually, I think a nuclear war is
> inevitable; as long as the weapons exist, someday someone will
> use them, but I think a global nuclear holocaust a la The Day
> After is unlikely.)  But supposing some computer glitch or sudden
> international crisis or crazed general were to trigger a nuclear
> war which devastates a large percentage of the East and West --
> I've heard nuclear winter is out, we'd more have a "nuclear
> autumn," but I think that's a small consolation in light of the
> mass destruction, wildfires, lethal radioactive fallout, and the
> end of our prosperity and way of life...  Given the cold, the
> plagues, the radiation, the complete loss of the technological
> infrastructure we've come to rely on for everything, the loss of
> medical care, waste disposal...well, you know the drill...would
> anyone survive in the long term?  Would the human race face
> extinction?
>
> I personally don't think so, though all the humans might die in
> the affected lands.  I think the southern hemisphere and the
> Third World would rise to power...but I wonder who, how long it
> would take, and whether a modicum of modernity would be restored
> to the world...the Internet, satellites, cars.
>
> Collin
>
>

#800 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Tue Jun 16, 2009 8:27 pm
Subject: thought experiment
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Some years ago I became rather irrationally obsessive about the possibility of
nuclear war.  I had my fallout room picked out, my alternate bathroom, my canned
goods and water, I'd worked out how much damage my town would suffer depending
on megatonnage, etc. etc....I don't know how I fell into that morbid state --
oh, yes I do...I read Pat Frank's Alas Babylon...

Well, anyway, supposing some Strangeloveish scenario were to trigger a
full-scale nuclear war; I often hear it said that not only is it possible, but
it's more likely today than it was during the Cold War.  (Actually, I think a
nuclear war is inevitable; as long as the weapons exist, someday someone will
use them, but I think a global nuclear holocaust a la The Day After is
unlikely.)  But supposing some computer glitch or sudden international crisis or
crazed general were to trigger a nuclear war which devastates a large percentage
of the East and West -- I've heard nuclear winter is out, we'd more have a
"nuclear autumn," but I think that's a small consolation in light of the mass
destruction, wildfires, lethal radioactive fallout, and the end of our
prosperity and way of life...  Given the cold, the plagues, the radiation, the
complete loss of the technological infrastructure we've come to rely on for
everything, the loss of medical care, waste disposal...well, you know the
drill...would anyone survive in the long term?  Would the human race face
extinction?

I personally don't think so, though all the humans might die in the affected
lands.  I think the southern hemisphere and the Third World would rise to
power...but I wonder who, how long it would take, and whether a modicum of
modernity would be restored to the world...the Internet, satellites, cars.

Collin

#799 From: Mark McKennon <scoutman12001@...>
Date: Mon Jun 15, 2009 1:32 pm
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Does this sound more and more like "someone" we know?


http://www.technewsworld.com/edpick/66912.html?wlc=1245072364


IBM Supercomputer to Match Critical Thinking Wits With 'Jeopardy'
Wonks

By Richard Adhikari
TechNewsWorld
04/27/09 11:59 AM PT

IBM has already developed a supercomputer capable of beating human
chess champions. However, things get much trickier when a game
involves answering trivia questions as they're spoken by a human
being. The company hopes Watson, a supercomputer it's currently
working on, will be ready for the "Jeopardy" challenge sometime
next year.


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Having developed Deep Blue, the supercomputer  that famously beat
out world chess champion Gary Kasparov back in 1997, IBM (NYSE:
IBM)  is now working on a computer built to compete in the TV quiz
show "Jeopardy."

It will use a system based on Question Answering, a computer
science approach that tries to build software systems that can
provide accurate, useful answers to questions people ask using
natural language.

IBM researchers have been working for two years on the system,
code-named "Watson."


Not So Elementary, Watson

Watson will use semantics and massively parallel processing to
understand complex questions, decide how confident it is in its
answers, and provide links to supporting evidence.

"Being able to disambiguate meaning is at the core of this
technology," IBM researcher Eric Brown told TechNewsWorld. "The
system must be able to decide, when you input the word 'bank,'
whether you mean a financial institution or an aircraft turning or
the bank of a river."

IBM may use one of its Blue Gene supercomputers running Linux to
participate in Jeopardy. Blue Gene supercomputers are used in
higher education and government. (On a sweeter note, they're also
used by candy maker Mars in collaboration with the U.S. government
to study the genetic code of cocoa trees in order to safeguard the
world's supply of chocolate.)

IBM will probably participate in "Jeopardy" sometime next year,
according to Brown.

Still More On Technology

IBM is evaluating various data sources, including encyclopedias
and dictionaries, to create a database for the "Jeopardy"
challenge.

Its researchers are still wrestling with various technical
problems as they prepare to tackle an appearance on "Jeopardy."

"There are lots of data scale issues -- how to partition the data
to best support parallel processing and how to manage that so you
avoid disk I/O (input/output) issues as much as possible," Brown
said.

The researchers are also trying to ensure that the raw data they
collect is useful and accurate. "If all you have in your
underlying data is garbage, that's another problem, and it's still
a challenge we're working on," Brown said.
Getting Ready for Business

The technology being used in Watson could potentially be used by
enterprises to better analyze their data.

Most importantly, it will enable machine-to-machine communication
so businesses can directly query and analyze the raw data residing
on their computers.

"We're now looking at the computer as more than a calculating
machine," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group,
told TechNewsWorld.

"When you can analyze what lies under the numbers and make
educated guesses at what the causes are, that's a powerful tool.
That capability is [critical] in order to get a response from an
artificial intelligence  system without having to go through a
human," he said.
What Is Truth?

The Question Answering technology at the heart of Watson is still
in a state of flux. The language processing community has yet to
develop a clearly articulated and commonly accepted grading
framework and research methodology, according to the organizers of
Open Advancement of QA (OAQA).

OAQA is a workshop launched jointly by IBM and several
universities, including Carnegie Mellon University, in 2008.

The workshop will be part of the 21st International Joint
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to be held in Pasadena,
Calif., in July.





Mark McKennon

#798 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:58 pm
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The other day I was in a used bookstore and stumbled across a hardcover first
edition of 2010.  Even though it was pricey for a used book -- $10 -- I bought
it.  So now I have all four in hardcover.  It's a very attractive collection,
very pristine.  And with the exception of my new 2010, they all have special
meaning for me -- I bought the hardcover 2001 on my honeymoon, my grandmother
bought me the hardcover 2061 when it first came out, and my girlfriend (now my
wife) bought me my hardcover 3001 for Christmas when it was published.  (I've
got a long and complex history with the Odyssey series.)

Collin

#797 From: "Michelle Evans" <mach25@...>
Date: Thu May 7, 2009 10:36 pm
Subject: Re: 2001 Showing at Egyptian Theater, May 10
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Yes, the IMAX conversion is fairly recent, but it really looks like the movie
was shot originally in IMAX, so it is wonderful to have that technology now
available. The up-conversion of 2001 would theoretically be even better than
70mm Cinerama, which would be pretty awesome.

Some drawbacks of IMAX is that it is a standard ratio format--in other words it
would fit your regular TV screen. It is not widescreen in its standard
incarnation. This is bad for everyone converting to LCD or plasma screens as I
did years ago.

The Apollo 13 IMAX version is also edited differently than the original movie.
At the time, the longest allowable run time was 2 hours and Apollo 13 was longer
than that, so if you watch both versions you will definitely see differences.

As for 2001 in 2001, we had some great things here in southern California at the
Egyptian. Only problem was that they were at the end of the year, not the
beginning. One nice thing about that though was that we ended up having the
final showing of 2001 anywhere in the world during the year 2001, so that was a
huge celebration that night.

Some photos from that event can be found on my 2001 display page at:
http://www.mach25media.com/2001display.html

Take care,

Michelle

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
wrote:
>
>  Guess it would require a conversion.didn't think of that.  I wondered why the
Apollo 13 DVD had the standard movie as well as the IMAX version - I mean,
unless you have an IMAX screen in your living room, what's the point? (I just
bought a DVD called Hail Columbia which is an IMAX movie, and I could quickly
see that it would look better on that huge screen; most of it is presented in
tiny little squares that fill about a fifth of my screen.)
>
> It just seems to me that IMAX is the closest thing we're likely to get to the
Cinerama experience; I think that's been discussed on this list before. I was so
disappointed when the year 2001 came and went with virtually no attention paid
to the movie.at least in this country.
>
> Collin

#796 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Wed May 6, 2009 11:42 pm
Subject: RE: Re: 2001 Showing at Egyptian Theater, May 10
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 Guess it would require a conversion…didn’t think of that.  I wondered why the Apollo 13 DVD had the standard movie as well as the IMAX version – I mean, unless you have an IMAX screen in your living room, what’s the point?  (I just bought a DVD called Hail Columbia which is an IMAX movie, and I could quickly see that it would look better on that huge screen; most of it is presented in tiny little squares that fill about a fifth of my screen.)

 

It just seems to me that IMAX is the closest thing we’re likely to get to the Cinerama experience; I think that’s been discussed on this list before.  I was so disappointed when the year 2001 came and went with virtually no attention paid to the movie…at least in this country.

 

Collin

 


From: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com [mailto:2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Michelle Evans
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 4:56 PM
To: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [2001aspaceodyssey] Re: 2001 Showing at Egyptian Theater, May 10

 




Unfortunately IMAX is a totally different system than 70mm so it would not be showable in that format. There is however a process to digitize a movie and upgrade it to the IMAX format, which has been done with numerous films. The first one to do this was Apollo 13.

http://www.mach25media.com/movieapollo13.html

Always seemed like 2001 would have been an obvious candidate for this treatment, but so far it hasn't happened.

Michelle

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...> wrote:
>
> I sure wish I could make it. Totally impossible.
>
> Y'know, they've got an IMAX theater at Kennedy Space Center; you'd think one of these days they would show 2001. That I could do.
>
> Collin


#795 From: "Michelle Evans" <mach25@...>
Date: Wed May 6, 2009 8:55 pm
Subject: Re: 2001 Showing at Egyptian Theater, May 10
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Unfortunately IMAX is a totally different system than 70mm so it would not be
showable in that format. There is however a process to digitize a movie and
upgrade it to the IMAX format, which has been done with numerous films. The
first one to do this was Apollo 13.

http://www.mach25media.com/movieapollo13.html

Always seemed like 2001 would have been an obvious candidate for this treatment,
but so far it hasn't happened.

Michelle

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
wrote:
>
> I sure wish I could make it.  Totally impossible.
>
> Y'know, they've got an IMAX theater at Kennedy Space Center; you'd think one
of these days they would show 2001.  That I could do.
>
> Collin

#794 From: Christian Bobak <kubrickrules2001@...>
Date: Wed May 6, 2009 4:59 pm
Subject: Re: 2001 Showing at Egyptian Theater, May 10
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Foiled again! I'll be in Burbank later this month but not in time for this. :(


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From: Michelle Evans <mach25@...>
Subject: [2001aspaceodyssey] 2001 Showing at Egyptian Theater, May 10
To: 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com
Received: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 7:15 PM

Just to let the group know that this coming Sunday at 7:30 pm, the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood will be showing a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey. If anyone from the group is interested in going, maybe we could all meet up? Let me know.

Michelle



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#793 From: "Collin R. Skocik" <collinskocik@...>
Date: Wed May 6, 2009 2:28 pm
Subject: Re: 2001 Showing at Egyptian Theater, May 10
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I sure wish I could make it.  Totally impossible.

Y'know, they've got an IMAX theater at Kennedy Space Center; you'd think one of
these days they would show 2001.  That I could do.

Collin

--- In 2001aspaceodyssey@yahoogroups.com, "Michelle Evans" <mach25@...> wrote:
>
> Just to let the group know that this coming Sunday at 7:30 pm, the Egyptian
Theater in Hollywood will be showing a 70mm print of 2001: A Space Odyssey. If
anyone from the group is interested in going, maybe we could all meet up? Let me
know.
>
> Michelle
>

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