Odd factoids

[NorthernDave]

The Lovell telescope is at Jodrell Bank.

Jim Lovell never got to the moon. Close, but not quite close enough to count.

There is a public open space on the edge of Leeds city centre (overlooking the Inner Ring Road) dedicated to Jim Lovell.

There is also an urban moor dedicated to dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse near the Uni (the proper Uni, not the rebranded Polytechnic)

 

[Drago]

Jim Lovell deliberately sabotaged Apollo 13 because he knew it was a suicide mission.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Jim Lovell deliberately sabotaged Apollo 13 because he knew it was a suicide mission.

He later composed the song Suicide is Painless for a new TV programme called Mash.

 

[classic33]

There is a public open space on the edge of Leeds city centre (overlooking the Inner Ring Road) dedicated to Jim Lovell.

There is also an urban moor dedicated to Barbara Woodhouse near the Uni (the proper Uni, not the rebranded Polytechnic)

Site of the second IT HQ of a bank.

Lovell also played for Leeds United in later life.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

NASA has confirmed opportunity is dead and hope is lost after 15 years on Mars.

 

[Grant Fondo]

He later composed the song Suicide is Painless for a new TV programme called Mash.

Years before, Sir Bernard trained young Jim to withstand high g forces by firing him from a home-made catapult.

 

[raleighnut]

Years before, Sir Bernard trained young Jim to withstand high g forces by firing him from a home-made catapult.

It was repurposing the net used to catch him that led to the invention of the radio telescope

 

[david k]

Just been reading carchat forum, there's s good thread called fictionoids

 

[david k]

@Grant Fondo

Your avatar, Bernie Clifton doesn't have real legs, if you watch his ostrich closely you can see Bernie has false legs

That's why he rides an ostrich, I'm surprised only I have ever spotted this

 

[Seevio]

The marketing slogan "Skittles - Taste the rainbow" came about because the confectionery was originally made from a blend of the sweat of Richie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio.

 

[Drago]

Richie Blackmore refused to change his name to permit him to join Whitesnake.

 

[Grant Fondo]

@Grant Fondo

Your avatar, Bernie Clifton doesn't have real legs, if you watch his ostrich closely you can see Bernie has false legs

That's why he rides an ostrich, I'm surprised only I have ever spotted this

Well spotted! Such a shame Rod Hull lost his right arm in a freak stage accident as well.

 

[NorthernDave]

Pop maestro Giorgio Moroder is actually Irish.
Born Georgie O'Moroder in MacArthur Park just outside Dublin he changed his name by deed poll to something more more suited to his exotic sounding music and the rest is history.

 

[raleighnut]

Richie Blackmore refused to change his name to permit him to join Whitesnake.

Actually it was the wig that stopped him .

 

[Drago]

Wigs were invented by Sir Roger Moore. He was born as bald as a cot, so in 1909 he took to perching a rabbit upon his head to give the appearance of hair. He quickly refined the concept, and from then on Moore wore a wig, This pre dated the widespread use kf cinema, so we only ever saw him in a wig, and this this became the norm.