The point is... The launch was to take place this morning...its now happening tonight. Its supposed to enter orbit over the British Isles thats the point Im making...We will deffo see it over the next 10 days passing overhead at different times
Astronauts Board Discovery Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:29:09 PM GMT
The STS-119 crew members have arrived at Launch Pad 39A and are preparing to board space shuttle Discovery. The White Room technicians are helping the astronauts with their flight gear and securing them into their assigned seats. The hatch will be closed and latched at 5:38 p.m. EDT. The countdown is going smoothly with no technical or weather issues at this time. Launch is targeted for 7:43:46 p.m.
Ok all you do is log in..right..next page if you look for satellites section, click on ISS brings up a table for 10 days of passes. This means that IF Discovery launches the two orbiters should be locked together or at least getting close (mmmm now you know why its called heavens above )
not a bit If you look to the west there a loads of shooting stars at the minute I think it is bits of burning taxpayers money coming down naked eye is all you need and wrap up well . The iss will pass over Ireland at about 20.15 tomorrow night from the SSW with the shuttle docked or approaching belly up and if we are very lucky we might see thrusters firing you to have to register sorry , I get alerts on my phone so I dont have to log in
usually the ISS appears from the south east & tracks north east. The orbiter usually precedes it. Dont think you have to register???? I didnt ! now I noticed two huge meteors in the past 45 minutes just wondering are they bits of the satellites?? burning up??
Good on you Anita...pile on the thermals and the wee hip flask should do the trick..I'll be out. Florida is 4 hours behind so I reckon 11pm or so our time. Apparently 2 communications satellites crashed into each other last night and they're a bit worried about debris, not to mention the no claims bonus
If anyone is interested, the Space Shuttle Discovery is due for launch later tonight (15th March)...the point is that due to a glitch this mornings launch was cancelled so the orbiter could well be seen from Irish skies tonight. Its due to rendezvous with the International Space Station which Will be visible in Irish Skies from March 16th so "watch the skies". A recent launch was visible from Counties Cork up to Co. Donegal in late daylight, but it is an awesome sight to see the shuttle creep up on the ISS. Times if anyone is interested are available by logging on to
We played, we laughed we were loved. We were ripped from the arms of our parents and thrown into the fire. We were nothing more than children. We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope. We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to breathe smothering, crying, starving, dying. Separated from the world to be no more. From the ashes, hear our plea. This atrocity to mankind can not happen again. Remember us, for we were the children whose dreams and lives were stolen away.
It just keeps happening,Doesn't it? Amritsar, Darfur, Derry, Omagh, Iraq, My Lai Some day soon maybe...the lesson may be learnt
Now this is getting scary.... ....whats next, saracens rolling up the streets again, internment, proxy bombs, knee-capping, paras,SAS, tarring & feathering and the morning routine of a new body in the same ditch.
Nobody has the right to terminate the physical existence of a fellow human being irrespective of cause.
We can only hope this does not escalate any further. I always remember the first victim of the last lot of troubles in 68 or 69, a little boy of 5 accidentally blown apart by a rogue 20mm round while he was playing in his room. Did that stop the other 3500 or so deaths after...not a bit. It very scary folks...
Tamarin I dont really know you so apologies if I seem forward but u may remember that u posted a thread last week about feeling down and I replied with a link for a song about hugs, remember? I also stated I had bad news, that news was regarding to what u are trying to say. I got news nobody wants to hear, I was mortified, doom & gloom etc turns out not to be as bad as I thought, Thanks to a few people on the site. As my mum says nothing is bad that can be worse nothing. the last thing you need is to feel negative. talk to someone anyone. The point is dont go through this alone for goodness sake talk to someone. Anyone even me if you want your not alone
Totally agree DW, I was inadvertently in the thick of it when we lived in Glengormley and subsequently burnt out of it. The old custom was whatever atrocity was committed some crowd admitted it. Has anyone admitted to this one. Could this be a ruse by some other crowd of murdering scum just to get things going again. Back to tit for tat. Fear breeds fear and thats how things escalate. We have seen it time and time again. It was a dirty game. For instance who actually bombed Dublin & Monaghan or more likely who would "they" like us to believe did it.????????
From one who woke up in the street looking at the dismembered corpse of my Mum's best friend in Monaghan 1974 at the age of 14...How do you think people like us feel, is the nightmare back.???????? Please tell us its not......... pleeeeeeeeeeze no more
Viv Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band was credited with this during a card game. "Mr Stanshall would you care to be the second man. my good woman, he replied, I wouldn't care to be the first""
How about a series of witty stories or quotations you might have read or heard. I'll start it off
Here's a great story told to me by a relative of Winston Churchill, probably the wittiest man ever.
The story goes; Mr Churchill was at a function, in 1930's London. Invariably at these soirees Mr Churchill was, well, rather merry, in other words p****d. Lady Astor, the first woman MP, approached our Winston, and rather indignantly chided him on his uncouth demeanor. "Mr. Churchill, she shrieked, "You sir are drunk horribly, horribly drunk." Winston, casually turned to his tormentor amid a cloud of Havana Smoke, and balefully observed. "Madam," he retorted, "You Madam, are Ugly, horribly, horribly Ugly,. But tomorrow I shall be sober." Brilliant
Hi DW....you're looking as lovely as ever. He's fine not so much a little boy these days going by the strange marks on his neck recently which he feebly try to blame on a recent alien abduction he had. Thanks for reply. Must catch up with you soon
Absolutely and I have nothing but admiration for a lot of people I have met on site who have had to deal with similar or more difficult circumstances. The neighbor I was on about, he told the in laws who were really hassling him about custody, that they could have access for the first 6 months and after that f.... off and leave them be. He has done a fine job with his 4 beautiful young women. Its the principle of that statement that cut me to the bone that time.
Another sleepless night last night, you know the sort, memories getting in the way of the good works of Morpheus. I was widowed nearly a decade ago and left with two small kids. I was asked early on to hand the kids over because I was told "It's no job for a man". I didn't and neither did a neighbor of mine who had 4 young daughters to live with, who got the same suggestion. So I decided ah what the hell there's something for the forum. What do you think people??? Is it? Isn't it? and if not why not?
Try that link Tamarin....nice new Irish folk song..all about hugs. " We all need a hug in the morning, and one at the end of the day, and as many as possible squeezed in between" "It is my belief for instant relief A hug is the best cure of all"
Hope it helps, I had BAD news yesterday morning..stuck this on the car stereo...it helped, didnt get a hug though
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Heavens Above....!!!
The point is...The launch was to take place this morning...its now happening tonight. Its supposed to enter orbit over the British Isles thats the point Im making...We will deffo see it over the next 10 days passing overhead at different times