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As a child I had some books with grainy pictures of Salyut. Is there a good website out there at all where I can get some better info on the Soviet/Russian space station series?

I understand there was also a military version called erm.. Almaz?
The Encyclopedia Astronautica seems to be the most authoritative and comprehensive online source for that sort of information - if anything, it might tell you more than you want to know!
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Thanks ToSeek, I had already looked there and was wondering if there was some Salyut obsessive that had created a site...

NASASCAM - I email the link to my friends for their fun and enjoyment. Even the friends who aren't interested in the program find that website funny.
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Thanks ToSeek, I had already looked there and was wondering if there was some Salyut obsessive that had created a site...
How about this site?
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I love these guys.

"You only have to look at the PAN forum on the badastronomy site to see what complete lunatics these people are. They claim to have debunked any evidence that the Moon missions were faked, when in reality their debunking claims are even more ridiculous and absurd than the fake pictures. They spend all their time writing gibberish nonsense to each other. This gibberish nonsense is typical of the sought of nonsense that emanates from an inpatient within a psychiatric unit."

http://www.geocities.com/apollotruth/

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Memo for attention HB's: a spell-checker will avoid embarassing gaffes like "sought" instead of "sort".
Sheesh. Some people!
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CONRAD : wrote " Memo for attention HB's: a spell-checker will avoid embarassing gaffes like "sought" instead of "sort".
Sheesh. Some people!"

will it ?, if there is a spell check out there smart enough to monitor context then i want one

sought and sort are both valid english words and the " ability " to confuse them is IMHO most common amongst people who use english as a second or third language

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The fact that he refers to the film 2001 as "2001 - A Space Oddity" is enough for me to not believe anything he says. If you can't even get a name of a popular movie right, how I am I expected to believe them on anything else?
I was (almost) wondering if this was his tongue-in-cheek way of signalling that he really isn't a HB but is pulling all our legs. After all, "2001: A Space Oddity" is an actual movie. It's a recent spoof starring (I believe) Leslie Nielson. I never saw it; I understand it had major release difficulties because of Kubrick's estate throwing a fit.
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The fact that he refers to the film 2001 as "2001 - A Space Oddity" is enough for me to not believe anything he says. If you can't even get a name of a popular movie right, how I am I expected to believe them on anything else?
I was (almost) wondering if this was his tongue-in-cheek way of signalling that he really isn't a HB but is pulling all our legs. After all, "2001: A Space Oddity" is an actual movie. It's a recent spoof starring (I believe) Leslie Nielson. I never saw it; I understand it had major release difficulties because of Kubrick's estate throwing a fit.
If that movie exists, I've never heard of it. The only parody of 2001 that I know of is the wretched Dark Star. If you haven't seen it, don't. It's not even unitentionally funny. Someone summed up the movie best by saying: "If forced to choose between death and watching this movie, choose death."
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That's strange, I thought Dark Star was hilarious. But I suppose tastes differ.

Then again, Ice Pirates is a lot funnier...

About the typing skill thing, it does seem to be fairly common. Then again, not everyone is as monomaniacally pedantic as I am about spelling...
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The fact that he refers to the film 2001 as "2001 - A Space Oddity" is enough for me to not believe anything he says. If you can't even get a name of a popular movie right, how I am I expected to believe them on anything else?
I was (almost) wondering if this was his tongue-in-cheek way of signalling that he really isn't a HB but is pulling all our legs. After all, "2001: A Space Oddity" is an actual movie. It's a recent spoof starring (I believe) Leslie Nielson. I never saw it; I understand it had major release difficulties because of Kubrick's estate throwing a fit.
The Leslie Nielsen flick was 2001: A Space Travesty.
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I have a feeling that one's reaction to Dark Star depends largely on the state of mind and circumstances in which one sees it. I first saw it in college with a sizable group of geeky college students. We thought it was pretty funny (especially the conversations with the bomb). I saw it again on television by myself, many years later, and thought it was dismal. Go figure :-?

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Actually, there was 2001: A Space Oddity, by Mad Magazine once. Better known though, is the spoof they put out soon after the movie's release: 2001 Minutes of A Space Idiocy. (It included such gems as Bowman staring at the Monolith wondering: "What is that thing, the box the U.N. building came in?") Personally I liked the movie.
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thanks, the site is great, how sad am I that I love this stuff?
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