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[cheerfulgreek]

Okay, so I'm starting a thread within a thread.
What's your geek dream? Meaning, what's something that you're so passionate about that could become a reality. Kind of like a possible realistic geek fantasy? Something that you've never done, but have always wanted to do, or something that you've never seen, but would like to see? You can only choose one thing. What is it?

Well, everyone knows my fascination with astronomy, astrophysics, and astrobiology, so I have a whole list of things, but since we can only list one, I'm going to say to be able to find an Earth like planet. I'm not saying there has to be intelligent life forms there, but just a planet similar to Earth. Well, I've always been excited about Gliese 436B. I'm so excited about that planet that I'm almost jumping out of my clothes. It's just that we still don't know if Earth is a common occurring planet, or a 1 in a billion freak. Gliese 436B looks like a Neptune sized Earth and it's warm enough for liquid water. I mean, it's not like our water because there's so much of it, but it's still liquid water on the surface. That would be a dream to be able to send a space probe that could land on its surface. What would we see?

[DaemonSeid]

To see man fly.

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

To see man fly.

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

I think he means to see people be able to fly.

I don't think he was talking about half man-half fly creatures lol

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

I think he means to see people be able to fly.

I don't think he was talking about half man-half fly creatures lol

But we already can fly.

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek

Okay, so I'm starting a thread within a thread.
What's your geek dream? Meaning, what's something that you're so passionate about that could become a reality. Kind of like a possible realistic geek fantasy? Something that you've never done, but have always wanted to do, or something that you've never seen, but would like to see? You can only choose one thing. What is it?

I'm already living my geek dream job as an auto designer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayhGnGHviQE

But, if I had to choose another, though....


I don't know if I could choose just one. It's between driving a Porsche 997 GT2 RS at Nurburgring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ8nwes6m-g

Or watching 24 hours of Le Mans (IRL).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMljkFGw268

Or test driving Ferraris for a living.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU-EPRHuwg4

ETA: Probably this one. My geek dream would be to have Jeremy Clarkson's job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_o9CyYMNSQ

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

I'm already living my geek dream job as an auto designer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayhGnGHviQE

Show off.

[Klop]

Originally Posted by PrettyBoy

I'm already living my geek dream job as an auto designer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayhGnGHviQE

Hey Kid, I hope you were joking when you wrote this. I know Dias for a long time and he told me he doesn't even has a register in this forum. What a farse you are!

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Klop

Hey Kid, I hope you were joking when you wrote this. I know Dias for a long time and he told me he doesn't even has a register in this forum. What a farse you are!

Troll doesn't even has a topics to stick to. The nerve!

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by Klop

Hey Kid, I hope you were joking when you wrote this. I know Dias for a long time and he told me he doesn't even has a register in this forum. What a farse you are!

I so cannot wait until PB sees this.

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by Klop

Hey Kid, I hope you were joking when you wrote this. I know Dias for a long time and he told me he doesn't even has a register in this forum. What a farse you are!

Kid? Kid? Who the hell are you? I don't know you or "Dias", and no I was not joking. I clicked on the first youtube I saw to show one of the tools we use at work. I didn't know who's youtube it was, nor did I care. I don't care how long you've been knowing the dude, I've never heard of him. Just by looking at his work, I see why. Listen "kid", I've worked for and met well known designers like Ralph Gilles (head designer Chrysler CCS grad) Peter Pfeiffer (senior vice president Chrysler) I've met and had my worked critiqued by Shiro Nakamura (senior vice pres of design Nissan) I've met Henrik Fisker (design director Aston Martin) I know Gary Ruiz (helped design the new Camaro) I had class with him when we were both students at CCS. I know Mike Torpey (one of my trans instuctors when I was a student at CCS) also responsible for the look of today's Cadillac. I know Tim Kosub, designer of the Pontiac G6. Gordon Plato another instructor of mine. I teach with Hak Soo Ha (design manager at Ford (former designer at Honda) and responsible for the Ford Fiesta) John Steiner (my design theory instructor and interior designer of the 1972 Buick GSX retired) I even had a private tutor I worked with daily when I was in school (Sam Mayers designer 1979 Mustang) I can go on and on about who I know, who taught me, and who I've worked with and for, and you come at me with some unknown dude named Dias? Okay. I've been in the auto industry as a transportation designer for over 10 years, boy. I've been a part time transportation design instructor for over three years. Do you know how many studio classes I've taught? I've taught viscom, several trans and auto classes, design theory, several product design classes, and human factors classes. Tell your boy Dias he might want to put more work into his sketching rather than rendering. My students do that crap all the time. Do you know what that's like? That's like putting cake frosting on a pile of shit. He doesn't "has" a register on this forum? Cool, tell him to "register" at CCS (College for Creative Studies, Detroit) and enroll in one of my classes so I can teach him a few things.

[PrettyBoy]

Originally Posted by Klop

Hey Kid, I hope you were joking when you wrote this. I know Dias for a long time and he told me he doesn't even has a register in this forum. What a farse you are!

I know Alias, photoshop, and Rhino, but this is some of my work when I was just a 2nd year student, before folks were using 3D modelling. Back then we used marker, pastels, prisma color pencils, vellum and baby powder. I did this work as a second year student when you and your boy Dias were pissing and shitting diapers.