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Post by plasticpepper on Jan 17, 2011 17:32:23 GMT -5
STS-9 was mentioned before Gary Chardonnay said he didn't see any correct guesses, right? I think they got ruled out along with everything else we had up till that point.
STS-9 was mentioned before Gary Chardonnay said he didn't see any correct guesses, right? I think they got ruled out along with everything else we had up till that point.
well this is where it gets tricky. Gary Chardonnay said he didn't see any correct guesses yet.
but did Gary go through 47 pages of posts? or did he just go to the first post which had a list of "guesses"?
after Gary tweeted there were no right guesses I went to the first post and STS9 was not listed there (they are now, but that came after).
If Gary only looked at the first page then he wouldn't see a guess for STS9. If he followed the whole thread - then yea he would have seen it.
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 17, 2011 17:43:21 GMT -5
Well yeah it is possible that he missed a guess. But STS-9 was mentioned multiple times afaik, not super easy to miss. And considering he referred to a post on page 34, he definitely went through the thread to some degree.
Basically while it's always POSSIBLE we're misinterpreting something, I think we have to take the hints at face value if we want to use them at all, and that means throwing out STS-9.
STS-9 was mentioned before Gary Chardonnay said he didn't see any correct guesses, right? I think they got ruled out along with everything else we had up till that point.
well this is where it gets tricky. Gary Chardonnay said he didn't see any correct guesses yet.
but did Gary go through 47 pages of posts? or did he just go to the first post which had a list of "guesses"?
after Gary tweeted there were no right guesses I went to the first post and STS9 was not listed there (they are now, but that came after).
If Gary only looked at the first page then he wouldn't see a guess for STS9. If he followed the whole thread - then yea he would have seen it.
I have thoroughly scoured the 47 (now 49) pages for the correct answer, only to be disappointed. C'mon guys....
Post by BelgianCumCrabs on Jan 17, 2011 17:50:49 GMT -5
The Top 10 Failed NASA Missions
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) Satellite Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) Spacecraft NASA Helios The Hubble Space Telescope Genesis Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) The Mars Polar Lander (MPL) Deep Space 2 The Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) NOAA-19
Post by luckyusername on Jan 17, 2011 18:01:14 GMT -5
Would watershed be attributed to the STS-9 mission in that it the 6 member crew, a manned space flight record at the time, Owen Garriot made the first ham radio transmissions by an amateur radio operator in space during the flight, the effort went so well that the mission was extended an additional day to 10 days, making it the longest duration Shuttle flight to that date, Merbold, a citizen of West Germany, also was the first foreign citizen to participate in a Shuttle flight and The Spacelab l mission was highly successful, having proved the feasibility of the concept of carrying out complex experiments in space using non-NASA persons trained as payload specialists in collaboration with a POCC???
Would watershed be attributed to the STS-9 mission in that it the 6 member crew, a manned space flight record at the time, Owen Garriot made the first ham radio transmissions by an amateur radio operator in space during the flight, the effort went so well that the mission was extended an additional day to 10 days, making it the longest duration Shuttle flight to that date, Merbold, a citizen of West Germany, also was the first foreign citizen to participate in a Shuttle flight and The Spacelab l mission was highly successful, having proved the feasibility of the concept of carrying out complex experiments in space using non-NASA persons trained as payload specialists in collaboration with a POCC???
Oh, Jesus, please don't let it be Genesis... Phil Collins on the farm would make me very sad...
Genesis has some excellent tunes as well as some stinkers. Especially if they got Peter Gabriel I would be happy to see them. And it is a good guess at this point. Especially since the project was to capture solar winds which fits the other definition of speckle kind of.
Genesis has some excellent tunes as well as some stinkers. Especially if they got Peter Gabriel I would be happy to see them. And it is a good guess at this point. Especially since the project was to capture solar winds which fits the other definition of speckle kind of.
Oh I'd be thrilled if it were Peter Gabriel Genesis. I just hate Phil Collins' voice with a passion. He sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks had a kazoo shoved up their asses...
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 17, 2011 18:17:29 GMT -5
Well, the Genesis spacecraft failed in that its parachute didn't deploy and it smashed into the Utah desert. It was collecting solar wind, and from what I can tell some of the sample containers were smashed in the crash, thereby contaminating the samples, but some survived.
So the only thing that "thwarted" the mission was a design flaw in the parachute. Can't find a good way to turn the parachute into a "speckled lad."
Edit: Oh, well there is this from wiki: "The same general parachute concept was also used on the Stardust comet sample return spacecraft, which landed successfully in 2006; but that system was said not to have Genesis's flaw."
I suppose there could be a stardust/speckled connection, but it still doesn't seem to add up correctly to me.
1. A trip to space - means exactly what it says 2. A trip to space thwarted - a space mission that failed or didn't accomplish what it set out to do - most obvious that come to mind for me are Apollo 13 and the Challenger 3. Thwarted by a speckled lad's demise - has to refer to JFK because he set out to put Americans on the moon with the Apollo space program and had freckles (speckled) as a kid (lad)
The answer's gotta be somehow tied to Kennedy and the Apollo space program. I know most of us already figured this but I'm just trying to make some sense of it personally and trying to redirect us to this.
if this is the case, we are supposed to ignore part three. so the clue probably has something to do with either apollo 13 or the challenger.
Post by gryphonkin on Jan 17, 2011 18:35:06 GMT -5
Here's a band that hasn't been mentioned yet. How about 7 Walkers? In history, there have been six crews who walked on the moon. If the Apollo 13 crew had completed their mission, Lovell and Haise would have made for 7 "walkers" during the Apollo program.
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 17, 2011 18:37:47 GMT -5
I don't know what it could be that we haven't covered with regards to Apollo 13. An oxygen tank exploded. The explosion was caused by damaged Teflon insulation on the wires to the fan inside the tank. The damaged insulation caused a short circuit which started a fire and...boom.
So here are things you could say thwarted the mission: oxygen tank, teflon insulation, stirring fan, short circuit. That's...pretty much it as far as I can tell. And I don't see how any of those is a speckled lad.
Anyone know what the flying horses are? The only thing that came to mind was pegasus...
Wiki has this to say: "The Apollo 13 crew patch featured three flying horses as Apollo's 'chariot' across space."
Yeah, I was looking at that and immediately thought "Sparklehorse." The release of his last album, a collaboration with Danger Mouse, was delayed because of contract disputes, probably complicated by Mark Linkous' demise.