Geeky things you do (confession thread)

[gt0163c]

Originally Posted by Hemisphere

I never got to watch Firefly but I hear nothing but good things about it.

The pricing isn't bad if that includes the room rate as well. I think it would be a fun experience. Especially with the scuba diving. Did you do that?

Firefly is excellent. I've available streaming for free and legally on various internet sites including Hulu (which is now open to all).

For Space Camp, yes I did get to scuba dive. In fact, I got to dive twice. The first time was with my team. We had about 45 minutes of instruction, the six of us that dove, kneeling on a shallow platform at the top of the tank with the dive master. Then we each went down to the bottom accompanied by a certified diver. While on the bottom, we played with some toys including a 100 lb almost neutrally boyant ball and built a pyramid with big almost tinker toy type things. We were each on the bottom for a little over 20 minutes.

Then, during the extended duration mission at the end of the week, I was chosen to do an underwater eva (extra vehicular activity/space walk) to assemble a "solar array" on the side of the "space station". The neat thing about this dive was that it was using a helmet rig instead of the normal respirator and mask. The helmet rig is more like an old-time diving bell rig. It includes a metal collar with a rubber gasket and a bubble helmet which the respirator is hooked up to. It's not terribly comfortable but it allows you to breath normally, talk over a headset to your EVA officer who is topside, have a 360 degree view, wear glasses if you need to, etc. It was an experience unlike anything I've ever done before and was incredibly cool. It was like being on another planet...I was underwater but breathing and talking normally. I was only underwater for a little over 15 minutes but it was such an amazingly cool experience. Of all the things that I've done at Space Camp (and there are a lot of very cool, unique things you get to do) this was, by far, the coolest.

[rachael24]

This is hilarious...Im thinking of my best one before I post anything

[Julie Rains]

Originally Posted by gt0163c

- I went to Space Camp for a week last year...and am looking forward to go going back sometime within the next three or four years.

I didn't realize they had space camp for adults -- cool. (don't tell my husband)

Someone told me that my love of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone made me geeky though I had never thought about it that way.

I remember people by their 5K times (20 minutes - Mark, 22 minutes - Brian, 18 minutes - Molly, 16 minutes - the new guy at the gym).