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Tokens, lots and lots of tokens.
I think Caitlin has developed her new signature move… but now we need a name for it…
It’s called “The Amanda”
By the way — just so you know… The chair slide-in is called “The Congdon” and the paper toss is called “The AC”
Good ending.
what a fag bag wanting to shut down space program
man the other girl was just so much hotter man :/ i mean shes hot too but maaan
i think she’s adorable.
I like this one, but each to his own.
aye , oh well, its still rocketbooooom
Button nose pusher?
Is that an Atari on her left?
Apple II ?
omg she is hot
I like how your T-shirt will remind the unfamiliar that you are not a little girl!
Ah yeah. You’re right. Apple II had vents on the top like that.
“I like how your T-shirt will remind the unfamiliar that you are not a little girl!”
Well she may be technically ‘legal’ she is still jailbait to us old farts who crushed on Joanne :)
I believe it’s a Commodore 64.
nice one Caitlin nice one!!
cute video. enjoyed it
She’s legal, but I don’t think she can drink yet.
Naw, commodore 64 didn’t have vents like that along the top. Arsipaani said Apple II, and that’s looking like the right answer.
The space shuttle program is already being phased out so demanding a cancelation of it is redundant. The Orion program is pushing for sept. 2014 but its future is in question
also and may be replaced by the Ares or another unnamed program. Obama is currently giving nasa approx. 2 billion more to try and close the gap to an earlier date but has not endorsed either the Ares or Orion. We’ll see.:)
She is beautiful and cute
Well maybe not alcohol… ;)
nice t shirt. he he
Nice and short :D
Ok Caitlin… A bit more originality there… But u gotta do something about ur hair color… Ur all blended into the bg.. I bet it’d look good ig you went brunette.. Ur face would be more visible I think… Or definitely redesign the set..
Loved the whole push a buton/nose thing.. Very cute..
Show of hands if you agree?
legal or not - she’s just hot! :P
no you look fine
she 20, thats legal enough.
Caitlin you are doing great!! Keep it short and simple.
She looks so…. interesting. Doing good job. Maybe im starting to like her more then Joanne.
o well…
alcohol…she dosent mentieond alcohol
Oh noes!… wait wat?
She so cute. p:<
And yeah… totally shooped.
wt iz dat?>
It does look similar to an Apple II, but I can’t find one that looks just like it. Now I must know. I’m accessing a few experts and going to the source. I’ll let you know what I find out.
this girl is pretty cute.
thehill88
YAY!! Caitlin in HD!!!! Sweeeet!!!!
Found it! It’s a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer, aka the CoCo.
There is no doubt.
is it me or can you hear her saliva while she speaks…
Oh NASA does indeed p’shop on a regular basis, it goes even as far back as the Apollo missions ;D
I’ve had a pic of the cockpit since the 80’s. Nothing is classified there. But he will get his wish. The shuttle only has a year or 2 left to fly.
When you grin, you remind me of Minnie Mouse san ears.
wow good quality
Caitlin is legal! wut…
Well, at least she is legal. But she still looks like 12. Sigh…
that is correct
Radio Shack Color Computer is what it is.
I did really like Joanne, but I think that Rocketboom has found the perfect venue for Ms. Hill’s tallent. I have enjoyed thehill88’s videos in the past, however was not a fanatic. This new partnership excites me far more. Just letting you know I’m rooting for you Caitlin! Well done Rocketboom!
Radio Shack Color Computer
Has anyone thought that Caitlin looks a lot like the girl found with this google search:
“gemma atkinson red alert” Without the quotationsmarks.
???
I think its pretty good likeness.
NASA’s shuttle is aand always has been a cover for the militarization of outer space. It is an enormous tax subsidy for high-tech military research, developing weapons and such spin-off gadgets as will soon be sold back to us at retail prices, just when they figure out how it can be marketed at a profit by the private tyrannies we call corporations.
lol.
Myself, I think the claim about the faked image is mere bullshit, as it generally turns up later on with conspiracy nuts’ theories.
But Caitlin is okay in this one.
Phew, 29 + 55 seconds videos in a row, this is stakanovism.
I have this image as one of my wallpapers. I never thought the view in the windows was anything but a second image. Actually, I thought it a black background layer with a layered image of Earth (one which I also have) and with the stars added graphically.
I just didn’t thing it mattered. It made nice display for the instrument panel. I never bothered to look for disclaimers.
Still I don’t think the image is faked.
I am such a skeptic that with the time I grew skeptical to the skeptics. Just think of what has been said for decades about the Apollo 11 mission and the photographic documentation. Not one argument withstood debunking. Besides, certainly in the outer space stars appear differently than from the earth surface and through a dense atmosphere.
The culmination of skepticism is that something must be true.
Too bad we have so few genuine conspiracies. I’d like to have more. Truth is so dull.
I agree with you completely. I dislike conspiracy theorists. As in the case of Apollo, they just are out to steal the show without even any gain, just deny someone credit.
I grew up following all the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions with my very young heart, mind, body and sole.
But this is just a PR picture being made less boring and more informative, like setting a museum piece in a contextual background. It is common for PR people to assume we will understand that even though we don’t always.
I am compelled to inform you, and I mean this nicely :), that the blogger in question does follow up and gets a confirmation of his suspicions from NASA.
The link is on the top of his page that RB links to and it is oddly entitled, “OK, so maybe NASA didn’t fake that image.” The article explains how NASA assures him that it did fake the image. He admits to being alarmist about it.
Here’s the direct link:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/01/29/ok-so-maybe-nasa-didnt-fake-that-image/
As I explained, I still don’t think it is an issue in the first place.
By now my reactions to conspiracy theories, particularly when it comes to space stories, are knee-jerk: if one says he found out a conspiracy I soon believe he didn’t.
It may take a toll of inaccuracy, of course.
ausie
What she lacks in attractiveness, she makes up for with annoyability (quite aware this might not be an actual word)
God she’s annoying.
ATTENTION ROCKETBOOM STAFF: This amounts to simply playground name calling. I don’t believe it should stay up just because he clearly can’t get his tongue out of his arse.
i second this comment!
well. Caitlin is talented..but what is she..12?
I wish Caitlin well. It’s good she’s got a gig..but I really want to see Joanne. Not someone imitating her.
I hope to see Joanne on cam very soon..wherever she pops up.
LOSE THE BUTTON TAPPING!
not a commie64, not an apple…it’s a TRS “trash 80″ CoCo2 (color computer 2) that Radio Shack sold in 84-86 (CoCo3 received the “beige” case refresh, this one is silver).
Sad to say, I know this b/c I owned one just like it for awhile…cassette data loads for the win
the button taping is teh hawt, keep it up Caitlin!!
They are phasing it out? Wha-ha why?
Orion ‘cuz capsules are so back in (easier yeah, safer, maybe)
c’mon, it’s a TRS80 CoCo ain’t it, I demand you tell us! ;)
Yup, it’s a TRS-80, but because of the silver color I’m thinking it’s a CoCo1. My first computer was a white CoCo2. I learned BASIC on that thing when I was 6.
A newer and better program methinks.
Why should we cancel? Let me count the ways. First, it costs about 10x what they said it would to fly in the initial estimates. Second, it’s a really good space truck, if you need to bring things back, but we don’t need that much. LDEF was cool, but we only needed to do that once. Third, it’s especially risky, what with those tiles that are so fragile. Fourth, a large portion of the vehicles is 1970’s technology. It’s time for an update.
I would much rather see my tax money go to development of a new technology from which we can derive benefits at home than to maintenance and continuation of a very expensive program. (Yes, it’s not much in comparison to the government’s budget, and I’m all for space exploration - I’m down on the Shuttle as the way to do it.)
It’s quite interesting how Orion brings back a number of aspects of the Apollo crafts, but one thing that has improved dramatically since then is computers. Go - really - to the Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama and see their Saturn V. (There are two others on display at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) and Johnson Space Center (Houston), but the museum in Huntsville is bigger and better.) See the instrumentation ring. It’s 6.6m in diameter, weighs nearly 2000 kg, and your CoCo has similar capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Launch_Vehicle_Digital_Computer
And on the topic of CoCos, I was a SysOp on a local BBS during its heyday. New CoCo owners would get on and start TYPING IN ALL CAPS, presumably because there is no caps-lock key. On several occasions I helped them figure out how to use lower-case so they wouldn’t all be shouting at us.
The Columbia disaster made it impossible for NASA to continue ignoring that the entire fleet is well past its designed retirement date?
Shuttle missions were reinstated following the Columbia disaster with a hard cap on number of flights for each remaining shuttle?
The remaining objective is to finish necessities on the International Space Station?
NASA neither has the budget to build replacement shuttles nor the desire for such antiquated technology?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_shuttle#Retirement
Also, every post-Columbia disaster shuttle mission flies on the contingency that another shuttle is at the ready for an rescue mission. So there are effectively only two shuttles left in cycle?
Since an ISS emergency could predate the space plane, no more non-emergency missions with aging equipment?
when will Joanne return :(
actually nasa is starting the aries projects and missions after they finish the last of the suttle program this summer… so yes technically the shuttle program is due end in about 2010 if not this summer… depending on launches… but they will still be sending a rocket of a diffrent kind into outer space.
allow me to quote picniface’s mother nature: SLOOOOOOOW DOOOOOOOOOOWN!!
she’s hot
Well, that was fail. Who cares if it was photoshoped? It’s obviously for marketing. And it’s kinda obvious - look at the horizontal indicator.
amen
May as well link to the shirt, too:
http://www.wickedcoolgirls.com/dagoileyestt.html
the T-shirt is a lie
longer videos plz.
Que Sera, Sera
make them longer!…the videos.
that could have been pretty disgusting if you didn’t clarify
What happenned to the grownups?
The Bad Astronomer’s piece was a work of satire. It was making fun of the conspiracy theorists who believe the moon landing was done in a Hollywood studio. Oops.
Um… How old is she? I want Joanna Back!
she is cute
she needs to be replaced
It is hard to believe that an intelligent girl like this would have a tattoo, yet it appears she does on her left arm.
keep doin what you do, its awesome!
Okay, Joanne was incomparable, Ellie is one smokin’ hot woman, but I’m settling in with Caitlin. By George, I think she’s got it! Welcome, Caitlin. You’re making this your own.
A tattoo has nothing to do with level of intelligence.
Nasa’s caption for the photo that the author included indicates this was a cockpit prototype that wasn’t installed in any shuttles yet. They did shoop it, and made it obvious by saying the thing wasn’t in action yet and wasn’t to be installed for another 2 years.
rocketboom was good =(
All of the RB women past and present are hot and sexy.
Amanda, Joanne, Ellie, and Caitlin.
Hot and sexy, each in their own way.
Caitlin is going to become a sensation.
Hope she invites all of us to the bar for her 21st B-day.
Well, she doesn’t look like the daughter of one of the Shaggs anymore. So that is good. And the diction seems to be getting sharper. So that is good too. But the segments are really, really short. So that is not so good. But, in time, I suppose it will improve. Maybe if you bring in the Tiki Bar people again. That really got Joanne jump started. From there on it was easy street until the end. I vote Tiki to put this over the top.
Put me down for the Tiki people too.
good thing he thinks it was photo SHOOPED, stupid bitch
it has more to do with confidence in your decision
JAILBAIT!
or not? I’d still hit it.
I second that
love the new girl
who cares
<3
<3
Why are people getting so worked up about this picture? It was released two months before STS-101 launched, so the windows and glass panels are obviously added in.
It’s A Radio Shack Color Computer
I think im getting used to her, maybe shes genuine?
Ah yeah, that has to be it. Vents along the top edges AND a red key in the upper right.
Did Rocketboom make a deal with Sony? Because it looks like they made a deal with Noggin. Goodbye forever.
Delicately, Caitlin. ‘Cause the nose knows …., ya’ know?
nice top and i need one of thos boxes they would be cool theyed be grate for getaways push a button clip comes up sly walk away
agreed..
lol good vid i kinda like this new person
Please, can’t you recognize irony when it hit’s you in the face. The guy is Phil Plate the “Bad Astronomer” and notable skeptic (actually he is a pretty good scientist, his title is also ironic. It’s because his blog is called “Bad Astronomy”). He’s making fun of classical conspiracy theory sites. You know all color and bold type, demands having no link to any of the claims made, that kind of stuff.
Read his blog, it’ll be good for you!
synack, I know all about those clowns at Bad Astronomy. Had a few drinks with ‘em once and all they want to do is put up their dukes.
She’s genuine, but genuinely what is still not certain. :o> Look up TheHill88 to get some more insight into the nature of her brain.
The Hill88 rocked!
she’s rly cute :]
kitchen
I cryed for Merlin yesterday but dont worry cuz hes in Gods hand now! I’ve prayed for him so hes gonna be on your side in the future and protect you and help you, hes in heaven and very happy! Trust me, you’ll meet again some day!:)))
Top :)
yes, cute girl
yes, cute girl :D
I think that the title is supposed to say shopped instead of shooped.
You definitely have the spirit of Joanne, good job.
But do you mind to stop flooding my ‘latest subscription updates’ with ‘olol I broke some record nobody cares about’ videos? Thanks in advance.
shooped is the term for something that has been photoshopped
You need to check out Philp Plait’s new video, check it out for a better understanding of this!!!
User Name: TheBadAstronomer
FAIL.. Phil is (ex)NASA’s most famous scientist!
[...] Sometimes though they’re the victim of their own snark. On April 29th they posted this video: [...]
Interesting.
At the end, does your nose normally make that noise when you press it though?
HAHA! You totally got Poe’d. Epic fail
Poe fail. TheBadAstronomer rocks.
Motion seconded. Motion passes.
Could that the Canadian pronunciation? ;)
I really hope you were joking… Because Phil Plait was. O_o
no
we canadians have a really bad habit of slurring pronunciations
something to do with barley and hop content
she’s slightly more cultured
man she is hot!!!
lol u actually thought he was saying it for real? man…oh he posted a video reply…and i just had to say this….you got poe’nd XD got it off some other guy :p
Opps, someone missed the point of Plait :( Check out the Bad Astronomer on youtube, he’s got a video up very politely pointing out your mistake.
who the hell is this
like a 12 year old girl talk astronomics ? give me a break
If Phil Plait is watching this: Are you ready to answer my questions?
Where is your proof that Bill Kaysing claimed that ANY kind of space travel is impossible?
How can you allege that he made that statement when Kaysing clearly stated “possibly our Surveyor did land on the moon”?
Do you have any comment regarding Operation Dirty Trick?
watch ? v = g1kVeXXTn1s
watch?v=mrWQ4Glmjoc
u look good!!!!!
Yeah, because knowledge is exclusive to a specific age group.
That’s why you can rest assured that if a kid tries to tell you that hydrogen reacts with oxygen, they are automatically wrong.
Not to mention that kids can’t read Autocues, or be talking heads either.
i dont like to be racist or anything - discriminating age
but I’m talking mainly about this girls attitude… you know what I mean
she display it not in a scientific/fact form but adds an expressive attitude
short: she acts like a slut or brat or arrogant or something
show the ufo’s
listen closely… Carry on the Rocketboom wit….
I thought she was great and was impressed with her confidence. Being expressive only makes hearing what she has to say more entertaining. How expressively information is shared has absolutely nothing to do with how scientifically based the information is. Science is not boring or meant to be shared as if it was. Your judgement of her is just rude and doesn’t exactly cast you in a great light.
If you live in place with clear atmosphere and south you will see stars and milky way every night.Now it is so strange if you take look at photos from moon or in orbit with no stars.
Your own post explains the difference. “see” stars vs “photos.”
A camera lens is not an eye, its a camera lens.
Go find a spot where you “see” stars. Lots of them. Now take a pic, with your own camera, from that exact same spot at the exact same time.
Your photo wont see a single star. Try it tonight.
You are lovely!
lol
NICE BOOBS
: o She’s Beautiful.
And she has a cute nose.
does her shirt said “legal”?
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