Due to a problem at the data center hosting the machine that the UKRA
site runs from, the site is currently unavaliable.

the machine also hosts the MARS, North Star and verious other UK
rocketry websites.

Sorry for this, but unfortunately it was outwith our control.

Cath

bfo wrote:
> Due to a problem at the data center hosting the machine that the UKRA
> site runs from, the site is currently unavaliable.
> 
> the machine also hosts the MARS, North Star and verious other UK
> rocketry websites.
> 
> Sorry for this, but unfortunately it was outwith our control.
> 
> Cath

OK - who spilt their beer on it?!

On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:28:01 +0000, panda aerospace wrote:

> bfo wrote:
>> Due to a problem at the data center hosting the machine that the UKRA
>> site runs from, the site is currently unavaliable.
>> 
>> the machine also hosts the MARS, North Star and verious other UK
>> rocketry websites.
>> 
>> Sorry for this, but unfortunately it was outwith our control.
>> 
>> Cath
> 
> OK - who spilt their beer on it?!

Not Guilty, this time! ;)

Dan

On Dec 6, 11:28 am, panda aerospace  wrote:

> OK - who spilt their beer on it?!

Read the front page of the ukra site to see what happened ;)

bfo wrote:
> On Dec 6, 11:28 am, panda aerospace  wrote:
> 
>> OK - who spilt their beer on it?!
> 
> Read the front page of the ukra site to see what happened ;)

I'm afraid I have to accept responsibility.

Take a look at the Advent Calendar, specifically behind door number 5.
I don't want to spoil any surprises so I won't say more than it's a
photo, but the problem is that I'm in it, and I wasn't at the event
specified.  This clearly means that at some point I have to invent a
TARDIS and go back in time to that event, otherwise the space-time
continuum will start to fall apart, beginning with the calendar and
spreading via the UKRA website to the rest of the universe.  However,
I'm now aware of the problem and will get round to building my TARDIS
at some point in the future - the fact that the website, and indeed
the photo, are now back up proves that this is so.  I don't want to
spoil any surprises so I won't say exactly when it's going to happen.
But watch out for reports from Intertemporal Rocket Week 208. :)

-- 
        "It'll be fine.  I've done this before." - M. Garibaldi
-------------+------------------------------+----------------------------
  Adrian Hurt | E-mail: adrian@macs.hw.ac.uk |
              | UKRA:   1026                 | Orangutan in space: 5/8/01

"Adrian Hurt"  wrote in message 
news:1197021347.226556@glencoe.hw.ac.uk...

> Take a look at the Advent Calendar, specifically behind door number 5.
> I don't want to spoil any surprises so I won't say more than it's a
> photo, but the problem is that I'm in it, and I wasn't at the event
> specified.

I'm sorry - the editors decision is final on this and you will just have to 
edit your memories to match recorded history ;)

Anyone know where / when the pic was taken then? Looks like EARS site to 
me...

Richard Parkin wrote:

[snipped...]

> Anyone know where / when the pic was taken then? Looks like EARS site to 
> me... 

It was at Pete's farm for either UKRA or K-Lob, I can't remember which.
The marquee was only there as something rocketry had been on the
previous week, might have been the old AspireSpace Uni challenge
thingie.

Cheers,

-- 
bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com                   http://www.bobarnott.com/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that,
  with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month."
                                                     -- Wernher von Braun

On Dec 7, 2:33 pm, Bob  wrote:
> Richard Parkin wrote:
>
> [snipped...]
>
> > Anyone know where / when the pic was taken then? Looks like EARS site to
> > me...
>
> It was at Pete's farm for either UKRA or K-Lob, I can't remember which.
> The marquee was only there as something rocketry had been on the
> previous week, might have been the old AspireSpace Uni challenge
> thingie.
>
was that not back in the days when we used the marquee as we didn't
have the hut?

I obviously didn't look close enough to the rocket i was holding, i'll
go back to my records and see if i can come up with a different date/
event, please note i still may get it wrong, anyone know when it
actually was?

Cath

bfo wrote:

[snipped...]

> was that not back in the days when we used the marquee as we didn't
> have the hut?

Yes, but I'm sure it was only there that year due to it having been
there the year before, or maybe this was the year after that when it
was there for us...

> I obviously didn't look close enough to the rocket i was holding, i'll
> go back to my records and see if i can come up with a different date/
> event, please note i still may get it wrong, anyone know when it
> actually was?

Can't remember off hand and my photos online don't go back that far,
will need to look on the machine at home.

Cheers,

-- 
bob [at] bobarnott [dot] com                   http://www.bobarnott.com/
------------------------------------------------------------------------
"Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that,
  with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month."
                                                     -- Wernher von Braun

bfo wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2:33 pm, Bob  wrote:
>> Richard Parkin wrote:
>>
>> [snipped...]
>>
>>> Anyone know where / when the pic was taken then? Looks like EARS site to
>>> me...
>> It was at Pete's farm for either UKRA or K-Lob, I can't remember which.
>> The marquee was only there as something rocketry had been on the
>> previous week, might have been the old AspireSpace Uni challenge
>> thingie.
>>
> was that not back in the days when we used the marquee as we didn't
> have the hut?

Probably; one of my photos from the event shows the inside of the
marquee.

> I obviously didn't look close enough to the rocket i was holding, i'll
> go back to my records and see if i can come up with a different date/
> event, please note i still may get it wrong, anyone know when it
> actually was?

The calendar is now correct - it was indeed UKRA 2001.  I only generally
go to two big rocket events each year, UKRA and IRW, and that doesn't
look much like Kelburn!  One of the rockets I'm holding is my Orion
Shuttle, which was built specifically for that year and which did not
survive contact with a field in Kelburn a couple of months after that
photo.

-- 
        "It'll be fine.  I've done this before." - M. Garibaldi
-------------+------------------------------+----------------------------
  Adrian Hurt | E-mail: adrian@macs.hw.ac.uk |
              | UKRA:   1026                 | Orangutan in space: 5/8/01

>The calendar is now correct - it was indeed UKRA
2001

Yep it was my first 'big' rocket meet.  I'd only been to EARS before that 
and that was in the days when EARS had a couple of dozen flyers at most.

Damian

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