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15-11-2015, 01:29 PM
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What's the Most disappointing Day in your Life.
What's the Most disappointing Day in your Life.....that you can remember...!!
Mine was when I found out ' Santa ' wasn't real ..... 
Flash.... 
Last edited by FlashDrive; 15-11-2015 at 04:19 PM.
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15-11-2015, 01:35 PM
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When I realised that not strong with the force was I. Couldn't even do a Jedi mind trick on my parents.
That and the annual dissapointment of not winning a Nobel prize. Otherwise I've found that the cosmological-scale sense of perspective we Astro-nuts share limits the harm dissapointment can cause.
Can't say the same for my parents, though 
Cheers!
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15-11-2015, 01:44 PM
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When I found out that the pictures on the box of the 60mm refractor were not what I could see. For those interested it was a Prinz 600 (I think) sold in the UK in the 1970's. But I could see more through it than I could with binoculars - so it was not all bad!
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15-11-2015, 03:51 PM
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Last Friday found out my cancer has returned
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15-11-2015, 03:59 PM
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Last Friday found out my cancer has returned
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Sorry to hear.
Andrew
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15-11-2015, 04:06 PM
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I empathize Simon; nothing like serious health issues to make the rest of life's problems pale in comparison.
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15-11-2015, 05:44 PM
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From an Astronomy point of view: when I pointed my 60mm scope at the "easy" double Castor in 1968 and failed to split. It turned out that the Nortons Atlas had 'old' information and the separation at that time was much closer than listed. Now of course, it is easy to split.
On the same evening, I felt similarly duded when I pointed the 60mm scope at the Virgo cluster of galaxies. Nortons showed the area congested with deep-sky objects, but, I saw nothing from my light-polluted backyard. 
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15-11-2015, 06:17 PM
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Last Friday found out my cancer has returned
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Simon I am sorry to hear that. I will hold hope that you can overcome.
Best wishes Alex
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15-11-2015, 06:20 PM
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Gravity does not Suck
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Of course material things are insignificant but finding I had lost everything in a bush fire was a little hard to get past.
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15-11-2015, 06:29 PM
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Probably the day my wife told me she wanted to sell up in my beloved Snowy Mountains and move back to Canberra ................
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15-11-2015, 06:49 PM
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The day I found out a few people I considered friends weren't.
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15-11-2015, 09:51 PM
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June 8 2015.
The second worst day was when I found out that I don't actually have Jedi powers, and that those doors in the shopping centre are automatic.
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15-11-2015, 10:12 PM
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Not getting accepted into a Meteorology training program at the BOM after spending days studying and filling out applications, including having to write essays, because apparently I was not "quality" enough. 
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15-11-2015, 10:26 PM
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The day I learned that a scope with perfectly figured optics would still have aberrations.
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17-11-2015, 07:10 AM
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Not getting accepted into a Meteorology training program at the BOM after spending days studying and filling out applications, including having to write essays, because apparently I was not "quality" enough. |
They probably Googled all your posts on here about Melbourne weather.....
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17-11-2015, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by FlashDrive
. . . when I found out ' Santa ' wasn't real .....
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THAT was a great day for me. I felt I had a secret that others didn't know. Mum said I couldn't tell my brothers n sisters. A golden day in my childhood.
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17-11-2015, 03:25 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlashDrive
What's the Most disappointing Day in your Life.....that you can remember...!!
Mine was when I found out ' Santa ' wasn't real .....
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Having travelled extensively north of the Arctic Circle, I think you have been misled. We actually saw the Jolly chubby fellow a couple of times in our travels just north of Rovaniemi. Keep the faith Poppy !
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17-11-2015, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Kunama
Having travelled extensively north of the Arctic Circle, I think you have been misled. We actually saw the Jolly chubby fellow a couple of times in our travels just north of Rovaniemi. Keep the faith Poppy !
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I knew it  ... I knew it ...cause he still came every December without fail.
I didn't care what they told me then...... 
Poppy..... 
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17-11-2015, 04:47 PM
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The day I moved out of home, and found out that the new place didn't have an automatic floor.
My clothes no longer disappeared from the floor, reappearing in the wardrobe.
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17-11-2015, 05:13 PM
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Disappointing, astronomy wise
When...... after travelling 50kms over the Mt lofty ranges to Murraybridge in pouring rain to catch a glimpse of the 1986 total eclipse of the moon (after deciding not to pack the scope, beacause of the dismal viewing prospects)... only to arrive at clear skys, the eclipse at mid stage and looking great and hearing my mate yell out wow look there's Halleys comet. The comet was bright and at its best and I couldn't get an image.
Rick
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