MSL Naming? |
MSL Naming? |
 Dec 25 2006, 12:15 AM
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 Merciless Robot  Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602  |
Anybody know if there's to be a naming of names for MSL? If so, I'd just like to propose an unimpeachable candidate moniker: Sagan (Carl to his friends).
 I know that the MPF lander was named in his honor, but for some reason the name never stuck with the public in the same way that Sojourner, Spirit, and Opportunity did; perhaps we tend to anthropomorphize rovers more than fixed landers. In that light, MSL will hopefully spend many years exploring Mars much as Sagan did; what could be more fitting? -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Jun 26 2007, 04:19 AM
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OK, well -- it wouldn't be much of an improvement over Mars Science Lander, but we could always call it Mars Gravity Probe 1...
(10 points for anyone who can identify where *that* reference comes from...  )-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Jun 26 2007, 05:19 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 |
Hmmm, would Adam West be involved in that somehow?
Can I start saving up those points to go towards buying Phil's book? Any more on this and I think the mods will have to move this thread to EVA:Chit Chat instead of MSL 2009.
-------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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Jun 26 2007, 07:28 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 470 Joined: 24-March 04 From: Finland Member No.: 63 |
Or we can go the Iain M. Banks way. Some examples:
MSL Nervous Energy MSL No More Mr Nice Guy MSL Profit Margin MSL Of Course I Still Love You MSL Youthful Indiscretion MSL Big Sexy Beast MSL Funny, It Worked Last Time... MSL Gray Area MSL Zero Gravitas MSL Size Isn't Everything -------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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Jun 26 2007, 04:59 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 656 Joined: 20-April 05 From: League City, Texas Member No.: 285 |
QUOTE (akuo @ Jun 26 2007, 02:28 AM)  Of course, Banks would have MSL choose its own name
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