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Subject: BS: one giant leap.. From: beardedbruce Date: 25 Apr 12 - 11:20 AM http://news.yahoo.com/photos/nasa-handout-photo-camilla-chicken-120-000-feet-photo-052958802.html "Camilla the rubber chicken is seen at over 120,000 feet (36,576 m) above California in this NASA handout still image taken from video dated March 3, 2012. During last month's solar storm a group of students called "Earth to Sky" from Bishop, California, launched a helium balloon which lifted the chicken into space to study solar radiation. Camilla, which is the mascot of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, reached the stratosphere along with a payload carrying radiation sensors, cameras, GPS trackers, a thermometer, insects and sunflower seeds. The flight took two and a half hours and reached an altitude of approximately 40 km (25 miles) before the balloon burst parachuting Camilla's spacecraft safely back to earth. " |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 25 Apr 12 - 11:47 AM Hey, anyone who'd ride a helium balloon 25 miles into the sky ain't no chicken. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: gnu Date: 25 Apr 12 - 02:01 PM BWL... hehehehee! |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: Ebbie Date: 25 Apr 12 - 02:44 PM I don't quite get the significance of the chicken in this story. It was a rubber chicken, after all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: gnu Date: 25 Apr 12 - 03:14 PM Ebbie... I assume it was rubber in case the parachute failed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: Ebbie Date: 25 Apr 12 - 03:28 PM Nah, you misunderstand me. My point is that it could just as easily have been a volley ball as a rubber chicken. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: foggers Date: 25 Apr 12 - 03:55 PM I think the significance of Camilla the rubber chicken is twofold. Firstly the report explains she is the mascot of the team and therefore has subjective symbolic significance for them. They could not go up with the helium balloon so she was there to represent them. Secondly, my knowledge of ornithology suggests that this species is usually flightless, so to achieve such an altitude probably should earn her a place in the Guinness Book of Records. That would make her little rubber chest no doubt swell with pride. Indeed this is a deeply moving story all round and I am wiping tears from my eyes as I type. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: beardedbruce Date: 25 Apr 12 - 04:03 PM And the reason the name Camillia was chosen for the mascot? http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Camilla_the_Chicken "Camilla has appeared in The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, and The Muppets' Wizard of Oz. In the latest Muppet movie, Camilla leads a group of chickens in singing "Forget You"." This should place the thread above the line... |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: beardedbruce Date: 25 Apr 12 - 04:35 PM http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/swx/ "In 2010, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) launched from Kennedy Space Center, leaving behind its mission's mascot, Camilla Corona SDO. Seeking a way to keep her astronaut friends and SDO safe, Camilla is going to send them space weather forecasts! Space weather and the forecast of solar events is a brand new science, so Camilla will need the help of her friends and fans to understand the data and, more importantly, learn how to forecast activity on the Sun!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: beardedbruce Date: 25 Apr 12 - 04:45 PM http://www.facebook.com/CamillaSDO http://about.me/camillasdo |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: Rapparee Date: 25 Apr 12 - 11:03 PM I understand this and I think Camilla is a heroine! |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: EBarnacle Date: 26 Apr 12 - 04:46 AM Back in the '60's, when I was first playing with computers, every so often, the little god in the computer would get angry and misbehave. We would then perform a ritual dance and sacrifice a rubber chicken to it. Since the little god was essentially stupid, we were able to use the rubber chicken over and over. Somehow, it always worked. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: gnu Date: 26 Apr 12 - 01:38 PM I had a rubber chicken tied to the tongue of my trailer in the backwoods with a sign that said, "Some scarce, eh?" Someone, and I know WHO, tied it to tree and blew the crap out of it with a shotgun. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: frogprince Date: 26 Apr 12 - 01:58 PM "a rubber chicken tied to the tongue of my trailer in the backwoods with a sign that said, "Some scarce, eh?" Am I having a dense moment, or does that requre translation for Canuckstanese into USian to be understandable? : ) |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: Rapparee Date: 26 Apr 12 - 02:07 PM People who shoot rubber chickens should be made to eat what they shoot. Rubber chickens never shot at them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: catspaw49 Date: 26 Apr 12 - 02:08 PM Kinda' looks like some kind of psychotic dildo..........or maybe a condom you could scare your partner with........."Hey Baby...Whaddaya' think of my pecker?" Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: Desert Dancer Date: 26 Apr 12 - 02:41 PM Shared with the Cypress College Astronomy Club. Thanks for the links. :-) ~ Becky in Tucson |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: Bill D Date: 26 Apr 12 - 05:00 PM "People who shoot rubber chickens should be made to eat what they shoot." They are....that's what the 'rubber chicken circuit' is named for in Bureaucratese. |
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Subject: RE: BS: one giant leap.. From: gnu Date: 26 Apr 12 - 06:55 PM froggy... "Am I having a dense moment, or does that requre translation for Canuckstanese into USian to be understandable? : )" No. But, just for you... when the partridge huntin is thin (not a lot of partridge to be had), bringing a rubber chicken to the woods for eats is an "alternative". We all had a good laugh. Except for the odd duck. >;-) |
