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Nearly twenty years on…kinda spooky
Chenoybal anyone…
http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddo … pter1.html
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Yeh, read this a year or two ago. She’s certainly got some balls 😮
It’s a bit scary looking at the photo’s she took and her saying about only traveling by herself so she’s not breathing any dust from other vehicles.Steve
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She’s got a sense of humour too! Last paragraph about the decontamination showers.
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lol chris, thats just the first page of about 50 or so that i read !
that is some real unputdownable, or unswitchoffable reading, i reckon i learned more from reading that, than i ever did from watching loads of the various docu’s over the years, very surreal stuff indeed.
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Good site, great read. I even felt compelled to give a paypal donation by the end. Cheers for posting the link 😎
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what a really good read…one of those disasters you tend to forget about, and i agree chris she has a terrific sense of humour…the photo with her behind an old tv screen 😀 youve got to feel for the older folk who are still living there though..i take my hat off to them 😉
nik
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Awsome,
Thanks for the link.
She’d get a blast if you e-mailed her I’m sure.
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quote Simon Kay:Awsome,
Thanks for the link.
She’d get a blast if you e-mailed her I’m sure.
elena@elenafilatova.comI was late for work this morning reading this link. Kept saying’ one more page, one more page….’
Great read, pretty sad tho, makes you appreciate what you’ve got.
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she has this site too, very interesting, and sad at times, how lucky we really are here !
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Its one of the few events that most remember where they were at the time.
the others for me in order of growing up,
1/ first man in space,…. go on then I will let you lot carry on from here, what came next?
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Cuban Missile crisis – was possibly the next one for me – were I grew up we had a US missile base about 3 miles away – they used to test the engines of the rockets now and again. Scare the bejesus out of us kids.
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so 1961, 62
I was aged 10 and in junior school. we all stopped what we were doing to listen to the news, I remember thinking, wow when I grow up I want to be an astronaught! Although the missile crisis was a world event, Chris, can you pinpoint excactly where you were at the time you first heard the news?
God Im old
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lol ! was sat in a primary school class, perhaps my second year of school, when we all sat round a tv and watched the first space shuttle blast off, around the same time we also watched the mary rose brought to the surface, thats about the earliest ‘memorable’ historical events i can think of, oh yeah, charles and di’s wedding !
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quote Peter Normington:Its one of the few events that most remember where they were at the time.
the others for me in order of growing up,
1/ first man in space,…. go on then I will let you lot carry on from here, what came next?
Peterman on the moon for me too peter. I was in grade 3, and they stopped classes and ushered all into the library to watch it on the telly. All the teachers bought in their tellys so everyone could see in every class. I remember I was not so much in awe of the actual event, but more curious about how they got a TV station on the moon 1st! 😳
We had a train disaster here in the 80’s that killed over 80 people. A train derailed and took out a road bridge in peak hour. I had friends that I suspected may have been travelling by rail to work on that line. I was sitting in a chemist waiting for medicine.
Elvis presley’s death. I was sitting in my dads car waiting for a rain storm to pass,
911. It was in the very early hours here, and I had a 4am start for a big sign contract. I didn’t turn on the news in the car until I noticed several musleum places of worship were all lit up with sentrys on the gates. Turned on the radio and heard the news. I remember a cold chill coming over me. I will not forget that day. I was meeting up with a really good mate and contractor that morning with family in the states. When he met me onsite he was a mess. Had been up all night watching it on foxtel live.
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You must be a bit younger than me then Shane,
I was talking about Yuri Gagarin, not one step for mankind!
And the pictures we saw were in black and white!
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quote Peter Normington:You must be a bit younger than me then Shane,
I was talking about Yuri Gagarin, not one step for mankind!
And the pictures we saw were in black and white!
PeterI’m 45 mate. I remember the day we got our 1st colour telly. They had been sold for a while but we couldn’t afford one in the early days.
Dad and mum finished up saving their pennies and got a second hand one.
My kids can’t remember life without colour, or playstations or computers. When I tell them I had to do my homework with pencil and paper they look at me as tho I’m mad.
Only yesterday, my son comes home with his homework: he has to ‘google’ a subject on music, and give a detailed computer report, with colour pictures and graphs. He is only 10! How times have changed!
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First bit of TV that stuck in my mind was a news report from Vietnam.
I remember the moonwalking. (Although we all know that was done in a studio in Shepherd’s Bush! 😮 )
Elvis is dead (maybe)
Piper Alpha. – Had just come back from Piper Bravo the week before.
Chernoybl. – was ploughing a field on a hill farm in Perthshire.
Ethiopia.
Sunday bloody Sunday
9-11.
Iraq 1 + 2
The Tsunami
Most of the episodes of Trapdoor and Morph.
Now that’s not bad for a man with no memory left!
Shame I couldn’t remember anything good happening (besides trapdoor)
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