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 May 8 2006, 01:44 AM
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There's a rumor that, during ground testing, the JPL engineers themelves called them "Itchy and Scratchy". Given the effects of Mars dust, that might have been highly appropriate, if a bit uninspiring.
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May 8 2006, 07:48 AM
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Founder  Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
"Divorce" and "Exhaustion" were the names I'd heard
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May 8 2006, 03:10 PM
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I think the only downside to Orville and Wilbur would have been in the abbreviated forms we would have adopted: Orvie and, um, Willie
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May 10 2006, 04:38 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 169 Joined: 17-March 06 Member No.: 709 |
Here I go again with a suggestion for an MSL name. As Bruce has reported, there may be a 2nd MSL going to Mars in 2016. Therefore, let's give the MSL Rover the moniker, "AVATAR." So, in 2009 we will have Avatar 1, and in 2016, we will have Avatar 2. Another Phil |
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May 10 2006, 07:11 AM
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"The incarnation of a Hindu deity, especially Vishnu, in human or animal form."
I don't see anything wrong with calling it MSL - I really don't. It's descriptive, unoffensive etc. Doug |
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| Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
May 10 2006, 08:54 AM
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QUOTE (PhilHorzempa @ May 10 2006, 04:38 AM)  Here I go again with a suggestion for an MSL name. As Bruce has reported, there may be a 2nd MSL going to Mars in 2016. Therefore, let's give the MSL Rover the moniker, "AVATAR." So, in 2009 we will have Avatar 1, and in 2016, we will have Avatar 2. Another Phil Why run any totally unnecessary risk of offending fundamentalist Hindus? (And I'm serious -- while they don't tend to murder people whom they consider religiously offensive remotely as often as a certain other religious persuasion I could name, they have made some serious trouble in the past. Let's avoid stuff with religious connotations.) "MSL" is fine with me. (But then, you'll note that "MER-A" and "MER-B" were also fine with me, and in fact I still insist on using them rather than those ridiculously cornball monnikers Sean O'Keefe came up with. Ugh.) |
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May 10 2006, 11:11 AM
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QUOTE (djellison @ May 10 2006, 08:11 AM) I don't see anything wrong with calling it MSL - I really don't. It's descriptive, unoffensive etc. Doug Doug: It *is* something very, very, very rude in Welsh, though. Not that offending the Welsh is a major problem! (ducks and runs a LOT) Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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May 10 2006, 01:43 PM
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QUOTE (Bob Shaw @ May 10 2006, 07:11 AM) Doug: It *is* something very, very, very rude in Welsh, though. Not that offending the Welsh is a major problem! (ducks and runs a LOT) Bob Shaw The host of the game show The Weakest Link once made a "joke" about the Welsh and she got death threats. So no naming probes after recent deities or still existant cultures. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 10 2006, 02:53 PM
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QUOTE (ljk4-1 @ May 10 2006, 02:43 PM) So no naming probes after recent deities or still existant cultures. So Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath are allowed? Excellent! You may be eaten last as a reward. Ia! Ia! Chris |
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May 10 2006, 03:57 PM
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Perhaps we could name a probe in honor of the Welsh after all.
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"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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May 10 2006, 04:54 PM
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QUOTE (chris @ May 10 2006, 02:53 PM) So Nyarlathotep and Shub-Niggurath are allowed? Excellent! You may be eaten last as a reward. Ia! Ia! Chris I dunno. Shub's last name is kind of suggestive... (Ever notice, by the way, how many half-brothers there are in the Cthulhu Mythos? The divorce rate must be appalling.) |
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May 10 2006, 05:31 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
QUOTE (lyford @ May 10 2006, 11:57 AM) Perhaps we could name a probe in honor of the Welsh after all. I think we'd need a Saturn 5 just to launch the name into space. http://www.space.com/news/spacehistory/sat...ive_000313.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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May 10 2006, 07:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2488 Joined: 17-April 05 From: Glasgow, Scotland, UK Member No.: 239 |
QUOTE (BruceMoomaw @ May 10 2006, 05:54 PM) The divorce rate must be appalling. Bruce: Certainly, many such relationships do seem to meet an early end; not so much in divorce, though, as... ...lunch. Aiiii! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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| Guest_BruceMoomaw_* |
May 10 2006, 09:33 PM
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We seem to keep drifting back to HPL on this site for some reason; but Neil Gaiman actually ghost-wrote Cthulhu's autobiography a few years ago. (It seems the poor lad's bad behavior can be largely ascribed to a traumatic family life, what with Mother eating Father and then getting eaten by Cthulhu himself. Something like that tends to leave a mark on a fellow.)
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May 10 2006, 11:20 PM
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Bruce: "Something like that tends to leave a mark on a fellow."
A tooth-mark. Phil -------------------- ... because the Solar System ain't gonna map itself.
Also to be found posting similar content on https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke Maps for download (free PD: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...Cartography.pdf NOTE: everything created by me which I post on UMSF is considered to be in the public domain (NOT CC, public domain) |
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