NASA Shuttle pics

"Mitchell Holman" wrote

Ergo the indexes.
They aren't as popular as they used to be, when people really
needed to choose what images to download because of the time
involved. Old habits die hard with some of us............

Well, keep the index habit going strong! g

I have to admit that I do not download all of the bodies of your pictures.
Some subjects do not interest me, so much.

But, that said, I do download the index, and will often find a picture or
two (from subjects that I do not normally find interesting) that I want to
check out more closely.

Again, thanks to you (and to people that post like you) for making this
group one worth visiting daily.
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
...
Well, keep the index habit going strong! g

I have to admit that I do not download all of the bodies of your pictures.
Some subjects do not interest me, so much.

But, that said, I do download the index, and will often find a picture or
two (from subjects that I do not normally find interesting) that I want to
check out more closely.

Which is precisely the idea behind the index - you can pick and choose what
you want. I concur that not all of Mitchell's posts interest me either, but
checking the indexes is an easy way of finding out what has been posted;
something that cannot be done with a .rar file.

I've been coming to this group since early 1999 and have seen all sorts of
things, including rants; abuse; spam; floods and even some very disgusting
images (one guy from what was Yugoslavia was posting images from the actual
server - they were images purported to be those of dead soldiers and pilots;
and another was an image of a man who had been litterally blown inside out
by the rupture of a high-pressure aircraft tire). Nothing surprises me
anymore, but some things still annoy the living .... heck .... out of me.

"Alan Erskine" wrote

and another was an image of a man who had been litterally blown inside out
by the rupture of a high-pressure aircraft tire).

Yuck! Sounds truly tasteless.

Just how much pressure does a high pressure aircraft tire go up to?
--
Jim in NC

"B. Hedd" wrote in
:


What does one do with 5 gigabytes of shuttle pics? Do you spend a
few hours over the course of three or four evenings admiring them? Or
do you spread it out to viewing them for 1/2 hour daily for a month or
so?

Do you go back a couple of times a year and admire them again?



Sorry to hurt your delicate sensibilities. I also have about
10.5 gigs of aircraft pictures. Is that OK?

The reason I think J3 did a good thing is that his stuff was high
resolution. This provides all kinds of answers to detail questions.

These pictures were also from sources other than the standard NASA PIO
stuff. He did a wonderful job putting this all together. If his flood was
too much for some, all they gotta do is ignore, or improve their computer
skills and subscription services. Before you give the usual response, I too
am on a fixed income.

99% of the aircraft pictures that populate this group are about the half
the size of the monitor screen before they pixelate.

Haven't you seen the bandwidth used in asking/answering numerous follow-up
detail questions? How about the number of questions requesting alternate
angle shots? J3's efforts provide angles/alternate views out the wazoo.

As example, just how many upgrades have been made to the shuttle cockpit
since the early 80's? Well, now I have photographic information.

So, you go ahead and admire for a fleeting moment the postings from this
group. I study them. Again, sorry to hurt your sensibilities.

"Lee" schreef in bericht
.92...
"B. Hedd" wrote in
:


What does one do with 5 gigabytes of shuttle pics? Do you spend a
few hours over the course of three or four evenings admiring them? Or
do you spread it out to viewing them for 1/2 hour daily for a month or
so?

Do you go back a couple of times a year and admire them again?



Sorry to hurt your delicate sensibilities. I also have about
10.5 gigs of aircraft pictures. Is that OK?

The reason I think J3 did a good thing is that his stuff was high
resolution. This provides all kinds of answers to detail questions.

These pictures were also from sources other than the standard NASA PIO
stuff. He did a wonderful job putting this all together. If his flood was
too much for some, all they gotta do is ignore, or improve their computer
skills and subscription services. Before you give the usual response, I
too
am on a fixed income.

99% of the aircraft pictures that populate this group are about the half
the size of the monitor screen before they pixelate.

Haven't you seen the bandwidth used in asking/answering numerous follow-up
detail questions? How about the number of questions requesting alternate
angle shots? J3's efforts provide angles/alternate views out the wazoo.

As example, just how many upgrades have been made to the shuttle cockpit
since the early 80's? Well, now I have photographic information.

So, you go ahead and admire for a fleeting moment the postings from this
group. I study them. Again, sorry to hurt your sensibilities.

If you want high-res pictures of the earth, why not try Google Earth?
I have very detailed pictures of the Pentagon, just out of curiosity of
course :-)

Many places on earth can be viewed in astonishing detail.
No NG flooding, no mud-throwing, no name calling.

And one last thought on the subject: the name of the NG is
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation. IMHO this would indicate pictures of
aircraft in various shapes and attitudes. The space shuttle is firmly in the
realm of spaceflight.
Should there be no separate NG for shuttle pictures?

Regards,
Herman

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:04:12 +0200, "Herman"
wrote:


"Lee" schreef in bericht
. 0.92...
"B. Hedd" wrote in
:


What does one do with 5 gigabytes of shuttle pics? Do you spend a
few hours over the course of three or four evenings admiring them? Or
do you spread it out to viewing them for 1/2 hour daily for a month or
so?

Do you go back a couple of times a year and admire them again?



Sorry to hurt your delicate sensibilities. I also have about
10.5 gigs of aircraft pictures. Is that OK?

The reason I think J3 did a good thing is that his stuff was high
resolution. This provides all kinds of answers to detail questions.

These pictures were also from sources other than the standard NASA PIO
stuff. He did a wonderful job putting this all together. If his flood was
too much for some, all they gotta do is ignore, or improve their computer
skills and subscription services. Before you give the usual response, I
too
am on a fixed income.

99% of the aircraft pictures that populate this group are about the half
the size of the monitor screen before they pixelate.

Haven't you seen the bandwidth used in asking/answering numerous follow-up
detail questions? How about the number of questions requesting alternate
angle shots? J3's efforts provide angles/alternate views out the wazoo.

As example, just how many upgrades have been made to the shuttle cockpit
since the early 80's? Well, now I have photographic information.

So, you go ahead and admire for a fleeting moment the postings from this
group. I study them. Again, sorry to hurt your sensibilities.

If you want high-res pictures of the earth, why not try Google Earth?
I have very detailed pictures of the Pentagon, just out of curiosity of
course :-)

Many places on earth can be viewed in astonishing detail.
No NG flooding, no mud-throwing, no name calling.

And one last thought on the subject: the name of the NG is
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation. IMHO this would indicate pictures of
aircraft in various shapes and attitudes. The space shuttle is firmly in the
realm of spaceflight.
Should there be no separate NG for shuttle pictures?

Just do what I do. If you don't like or want a particular post or
posts, skip past them.
--
http://www.petersparrots.com http://www.insanevideoclips.com http://www.petersphotos.com

Why was the "pap smear" called that?
If it'd been called the "**** Scrape," no one would ever have it done.

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:58:51 -0500, "B. Hedd" wrote:

Lee wrote:

"B. Hedd" wrote in
:


What does one do with 5 gigabytes of shuttle pics? Do you spend a
few hours over the course of three or four evenings admiring them? Or
do you spread it out to viewing them for 1/2 hour daily for a month or
so?

Do you go back a couple of times a year and admire them again?



Sorry to hurt your delicate sensibilities. I also have about
10.5 gigs of aircraft pictures. Is that OK?

It's absolutely OK... What you put on your computer is your business.

I'm just curious as to what you do with them.

What he does in the privacy of his own home.... :-)
--
http://www.petersparrots.com http://www.insanevideoclips.com http://www.petersphotos.com

It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw
up. The frog throws up its stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of
it’s mouth. Then the frog uses its forearms to dig out all of the
stomach’s contents and then swallows the stomach back down again.

I've been using Winrar for years - never had a problem.

Here is the website for Winrar - the REAL product.

http://www.rarlab.com/

Walter

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:03:51 -0500, Mitchell Holman
wrote:

"ABLE_1" wrote in
:

Can anybody out there in PC Land please tell me how to unencrypt the
NASA pics so I can also enjoy them?

Phil

All I can offer is caution. I thought I would follow the masses and
give it a try. I did a Google on WINrar and then picked this site
http://gperavguslive.info/.

I agree my stupid error. Ended up with a virus - trogon - or what ever.
Spent 9 hours of my present life getting rid of the POS.

Life and computer is back to normal again and doubt I will ever consider
dealing with RAR or PAR files ever again. I really don't care how good
they are reported to be.

So what ever you decide for your fate be aware you have been warned of
the Dark Side.

Good luck.



Personally I have never seen a reason to stray from jpegs.
They don't carry viruses, they are read by every image viewer
known to man, they can be resized and enhanced by even more,
and they will be the universal standard for years to come.

IMHO, that is............

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:58:51 -0400, B. Hedd wrote
(in article ):

Lee wrote:

"B. Hedd" wrote in
:


What does one do with 5 gigabytes of shuttle pics? Do you spend a
few hours over the course of three or four evenings admiring them? Or
do you spread it out to viewing them for 1/2 hour daily for a month or
so?

Do you go back a couple of times a year and admire them again?



Sorry to hurt your delicate sensibilities. I also have about
10.5 gigs of aircraft pictures. Is that OK?

It's absolutely OK... What you put on your computer is your business.

I'm just curious as to what you do with them.



I go over older pix to look for differences and updates... you know, the way
he stated he did but you snipped out without marking the snip.

"As example, just how many upgrades have been made to the shuttle cockpit
since the early 80's? Well, now I have photographic information."

Some of us are interested in the history of aviation in general and of
particular systems in particular.

I also go over pix looking for a particularly good shot and then use them to
make various items, including but not limited to my own calendars and other
hardcopy. (so I have pinups of Lancasters and Vulcans and Lightenings, the
latter including Lockheed, English Electric, and Mitsubishi products, instead
of nekkid girls... sue me.)

J3's stuff will give me hours, days, weeks, worth of work to go through and
sort out and catalogue and drop onto a DVD. After that, I'll be able to find
any one of the pix in a matter of seconds.

But, hey, if you don't like 'em, don't download 'em. Seems simple enough to
me.

It's not a question of downloading, or not. It's a question of going through
400 or 500 posts at a time, looking for something you really want to look
at. I don't want to spend hours, days and weeks putting together photos, and
then sorting them out. I have other things to do. So, I am looking for other
subjects. Think of it like getting a thousand pieces of junk mail in your
snail mail mailbox, but one of the pieces of mail, is actually a bill. You
have to go through all of them to find it, before you throw everything out.

And there is absolutely no consideration for those who are asking not to
flood. It's like he is saying, "I don't care what you want, I'm going to
give you what I want, whether you like it or not." I still ask, if a few
people want them, why doesn't he send them to those people, directly? how
many are there, five? Oh, it might be inconvenient for him, or you, so, I
guess it's alright to do it this way, and make it inconvenient for everyone
else.

It seems that people always want to do what is convenient for themselves,
they don't care how it affects the other guy. Those other guys, are
"whining".

So, there is now a flood of people that are complaining. Well, you don't
have to download them, do you? Seems simple enough to me.


"hielan' laddie" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:58:51 -0400, B. Hedd wrote
(in article ):

Lee wrote:

"B. Hedd" wrote in
:


What does one do with 5 gigabytes of shuttle pics? Do you spend a
few hours over the course of three or four evenings admiring them? Or
do you spread it out to viewing them for 1/2 hour daily for a month or
so?

Do you go back a couple of times a year and admire them again?



Sorry to hurt your delicate sensibilities. I also have about
10.5 gigs of aircraft pictures. Is that OK?

It's absolutely OK... What you put on your computer is your business.

I'm just curious as to what you do with them.



I go over older pix to look for differences and updates... you know, the
way
he stated he did but you snipped out without marking the snip.

"As example, just how many upgrades have been made to the shuttle cockpit
since the early 80's? Well, now I have photographic information."

Some of us are interested in the history of aviation in general and of
particular systems in particular.

I also go over pix looking for a particularly good shot and then use them
to
make various items, including but not limited to my own calendars and
other
hardcopy. (so I have pinups of Lancasters and Vulcans and Lightenings, the
latter including Lockheed, English Electric, and Mitsubishi products,
instead
of nekkid girls... sue me.)

J3's stuff will give me hours, days, weeks, worth of work to go through
and
sort out and catalogue and drop onto a DVD. After that, I'll be able to
find
any one of the pix in a matter of seconds.

But, hey, if you don't like 'em, don't download 'em. Seems simple enough
to
me.