There is a brief commercial before video starts. Sorry.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...25553#27725553

Wish this was broadcast on major channels.

Enjoy.

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Here's the view from my front door:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnS5BOt1sOA

(no commercials on mine...)

Saw that too from my backyard. I'm right up the road from you. It's humid tonight. Yuck!

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I saw it on NASA TV!

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Most of the Houston stations carried the launch. I tuned in seconds before the shuttle left the ground.

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You live near the Cape? Nice.

Wow, your video quality was so much better then mine. You even look closer despite the fact that I am up in Brevard County. I wish I could share mine but unfortunately I think I would be breaking board rules. I was standing in my living room door and figured I would record the first few seconds of lift off from the television but when I took a quick glance into my back yard, I realized that the whole northern horizon was completely lit up and blurted out a few explicit words. It's not even worth sharing though because it was all blurry. My camcorder just kept autofocusing on the trees. What a sight to see, though.

About 120 miles south.

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I want a launch site in my backyard. I used to have a nuclear power plant in my backyard (well, 500 meter behind my back yard). But that one never launched stuff. Maybe it was for the better...

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hmmmmm. ya, maybe.

I always wanted to live near an airport, I don't know what people complain about. NOISE. You'd get used to it.

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They might sink stuff Great video, JustAFriend. Suffice to say I'm a little jealous of you and megrfl...

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Most, if not all, noise complaints to the airforce base where I was based came from people recently moving in to that area. It was very rare to receive a complaint from any of the locals in the villages near the runways.

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Some people have all the luck.

Yes, me too. I think I'm going to live next to one when I retire. Or perhaps next to the Cape, or Mojave.

Exactly.

If you really are in the Netherlands, then I'm the jealous one. Just purchased a print of a Dutch farm setting by S. Wieringa at an estate sale. Never heard of the artist, but his/her work is very beautiful and peaceful.

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When I retire, I think I will be somewhere in the Great smoky Mountains, but I just heard a report that the air isn't so clean... Here in Florida the air is some of the cleanest, being a peninsula.

I have asthma and the night of the shuttle launch, I could hardly breathe, the humidity was 90%.

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Hmmm, they did throw us out of our house to expand the port...

But if you want an idea of how close I lived to the power plant (a big 4 reactor one, no tiny stuff), look up this one:

Google maps link

The flag is in my former back yard. Upwards of it are 2 fields, then the nuclear power plant starts. Scroll up to see more of it.

So yes, my neighbour had a nuclear power plant .

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That's very close. Nice.
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