UAL747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (5 years 9 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1746 times:
Bleh, I used to have this song on my computer back in college, but I can't remember what it was.
Have any of you seen the movie, "Space Camp?" Like right at the first of the movie, there is this song this guy is playing in his Jeep when he pulls up to Space Camp in Florida. It starts out with a tune, then the singers start singing, and the last part of the verse is "The Look(book) of Love" something like that. It's been bugging me FOR YEARS because I can't figure out who sings it. It's an 80's song of course. Any help would be appreciated.
It's not listed on the Soundtrack of the movie either.
Deltagator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16 Reply 2, posted (5 years 9 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1718 times:
Yes, and you should be shot for possibly enjoying it.
As someone who grew up across the river from the Space Center in Florida, lived in Huntsville, AL at that Space Center, and I could go on with our family ties to the space program I can't stand that horrid, stupid, and completely unplausible movie.
DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16 Reply 5, posted (5 years 9 months 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 1681 times:
AAFLT1871 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 2333 posts, RR: 16 Reply 7, posted (5 years 9 months 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 1661 times:
Quoting UAL747 (Reply 6): DUDE! Space Camp RULZ! I loved that movie as a kid. Right up there with "Flight of the Navigator"
DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16 Reply 8, posted (5 years 9 months 4 days 6 hours ago) and read 1648 times:
Like I said, as someone who grew up around the space program, had many family members in it, and has been to Space Camp myself I have to say that movie is one of the worst movies of all time because it is so not believable.
You really need professional help if you think that movie is good.
"If you can't delight in the misery of others then you don't deserve to be a college football fan."
UAL747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (5 years 9 months 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 1624 times:
I wanted to go to Space Camp, and my parents said I could go if I wanted to, don't remember the requirements to get in, but heck, I couldn't even go to summer camp for a week without wanting to come home, so space camp was what, 6-8 weeks? Couldn't phathom that as a child! HA.
Kieron747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (5 years 9 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1617 times:
Quoting DeltaGator (Reply 8): You really need professional help if you think that movie is good.
Way to suck all the fun out of a children's film!..
Quoting DeltaGator (Reply 8): Like I said, as someone who grew up around the space program, had many family members in it, and has been to Space Camp myself I have to say that movie is one of the worst movies of all time because it is so not believable.
Lucky we have your professional analysis of the situation then. For those of us that didn't grow up with a solid rocket booster sticking out of our ass, as children, the film was good.
IFEMaster From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 12, posted (5 years 9 months 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 1610 times:
Quoting Kieron747 (Reply 11):
Lucky we have your professional analysis of the situation then. For those of us that didn't grow up with a solid rocket booster sticking out of our ass, as children, the film was good
Well said that man. You and I may not see eye to eye on Bourne vs. Bond, but we agree on the important things in life, like how great a movie Space Camp was/is.
OMG, I remember that movie so well, and it was on TV a couple of months ago! When that movie came to my attention (not sure when it came out) I remember getting some moving boxes and building my own "spaceship" and I strapped my Tandy 1000EX computer on top of it! HAHA! I liked that movie up until they met the aliens. They were annoying and sort of took out the cool science fiction out of the movie and replaced it with "stupid" comedy. But that bubble thing they created was sooo cool.
Kieron747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (5 years 9 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 1593 times:
Quoting IFEMaster (Reply 12): Well said that man. You and I may not see eye to eye on Bourne vs. Bond, but we agree on the important things in life, like how great a movie Space Camp was/is.
Exactly! It was an import part of my life was SpaceCamp. DeltaGator is taking it out of context. We were kids when the film was out, back in a time when the only good think about the 80's were action films and action films aimed at younger audiences: kids films. Indiana Jones, Goonies, Back to the Future etc etc.
All inspired me to become interested in Science, and have had a long lasting effect on my chosen career. I can think of nothing worse than being at school with some kid who was a "know it all" about SpaceCamp, no doubt wearing a SpaceCamp cap and debunking all the myths and fantastical ideas films like SpaceCamp inspired.
Quoting UAL747 (Reply 13): I remember getting some moving boxes and building my own "spaceship" and I strapped my Tandy 1000EX computer on top of it! HAHA! I liked that movie up until they met the aliens.
I did the same thing from a very young age, even to the extent of including a calculator in my cardboard box mock-up of a space ship (back in the days when I could fit in a box taken from Tesco) to as the calculator was a piece of important kit in the ship. It had buttons, and it had illuminated digits. That damn calculator doubled up as a navigation computer many a Sunday evening!
I used to draw all the cockpit instruments, with dials, radars and such, and anything that had its own light was included to light up control panels etc. TV remote controls, etc. Wiring from the garage would provide the innards of the contraption, and when on EVA I'd have to perform complex repairs using said wires!
The fact is that what happens in SpaceCamp is impossible, we all know that, but at the time, if at least for a few days, children can believe that they are in that situation.
And that is priceless.
My kid will watch it I'm sure when he's old enough, and you know what Delta, he'll perhaps enjoy it!
UAL747 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 15, posted (5 years 9 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 1588 times:
Quoting Kieron747 (Reply 14): I did the same thing from a very young age, even to the extent of including a calculator in my cardboard box mock-up of a space ship (back in the days when I could fit in a box taken from Tesco) to as the calculator was a piece of important kit in the ship. It had buttons, and it had illuminated digits. That damn calculator doubled up as a navigation computer many a Sunday evening!
Gosh, I did the same thing. Anything that would light up or had buttons went into my cardboard box space ships. I miss the days of being able to fit into cardboard box creations! My most elaborate one, I grabbed two humidifiers, and placed them on the outside and made a duct with some tinfoil and small boxes so the vapor would pour into the space ship. I also set up and "Oxygen circulation system" by cutting out holes on the top, just big enough for the blades of two stand alone fans would fit inside. On one fan, I took off the blades and flipped them over for the reverse exhaust and the other one I just left the same for incoming air. Got out some christmas lights and poked them through holes into the cockpit for my mock-up. That thing ROCKED!! I also had this pocket TV that I strapped inside of the thing, it was my main outside camera. HAHA.
And I agree with you, don't take the fun out of space camp. E.T. was unreal as well, but it inspired many of us, just as Space Camp did.
Why oh why can't we have great action, sciencefiction movies like that anymore? Now all they want to do is gross you out. I mean, come on, Saw I, II, III, and now IV?
Those movies gave us inspiration to dream, and gave us plenty of ideas to keep ourselves entertained.
DeltaGator From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 6341 posts, RR: 16 Reply 16, posted (5 years 9 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 1553 times:
Quoting UAL747 (Reply 9): space camp was what, 6-8 weeks?
No, anywhere from a few days to 2 weeks. Nothing 6 to 8 weeks long.
Quoting Kieron747 (Reply 11): Way to suck all the fun out of a children's film!..
Lighten up Francis. I'm just giving him a hard time for liking a bad movie. I'm sure I have a few movie skeletons in my closet you could make fun of with me.
"If you can't delight in the misery of others then you don't deserve to be a college football fan."
Did either of you do this thing with a radio where you selected Short Wave and then tuned it to the highest end of the tuning spectrum your radio would allow? The signal picked up there was a series of crystal clear bleeps and bloops like many science fiction computers from the 70's and 80's. That was a regular part of my cardboard spaceship.
I also remember one particular spaceship I built where my dad helped me cut a 'porthole' in the side and then covered in a blue gel from a disco light. From out of that blue window, I could see the TV. Perhaps that was really the first IFE system I built Man, that spaceship was excellent!
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