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post Jun 14 2008, 08:27 AM
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wheel.gif I think MSL should be given a better name! Like what it was done with the MER rovers(Spirit-Opportunity). We could propose some! I propose the names "Eureka!" and "Innovation". What about you? We could then(after some months maybe) vote for the best of them!


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- Ipparchus   A name for MSL   Jun 14 2008, 08:27 AM
- - nprev   I keep thinking that they'll honor a planetary...   Feb 10 2009, 04:04 PM
- - Phil Stooke   In keeping with dvandorn's rather clever sugge...   Feb 10 2009, 04:14 PM
- - charborob   CHARiot BOldly ROving Barsoom seem appropriate to ...   Feb 10 2009, 05:01 PM
|- - ustrax   Sci44, did you left mine out on purpose?... And...   Feb 10 2009, 05:03 PM
- - nprev   Rui, the only conspicuous omission I see is ...   Feb 11 2009, 12:48 AM
- - Stu   Voting is now open, and here are your choices... ...   Mar 23 2009, 08:08 AM
|- - punkboi   Curiosity sounds like a good name...since it has 5...   Mar 23 2009, 08:11 AM
|- - ustrax   Sorry...but there isn't one suggestion that I ...   Mar 23 2009, 02:07 PM
|- - MahFL   I agree they are all rubbishy names. Who on Earth ...   Mar 23 2009, 02:14 PM
- - Stu   Schoolkids submitted them, just as they did, I bel...   Mar 23 2009, 02:17 PM
|- - ustrax   So go find those kids who named MER and hire them...   Mar 23 2009, 02:23 PM
|- - ugordan   I have to say none of those names strike me as fit...   Mar 23 2009, 02:33 PM
- - lyford   I dunno, these names sound more like new age music...   Mar 23 2009, 02:31 PM
- - ngunn   Oh dear. I can't believe that all the suggesti...   Mar 23 2009, 02:42 PM
- - Stu   I have to be honest here, and no offense meant to ...   Mar 23 2009, 02:56 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 23 2009, 07:56 AM) I’m a...   Mar 23 2009, 03:16 PM
- - AndyG   Out of that lot (and it's a remarkably bland l...   Mar 23 2009, 02:56 PM
- - Stu   I'm very conscious of the fact, however, that ...   Mar 23 2009, 02:59 PM
- - jamescanvin   That's what I'm trying to tell myself as w...   Mar 23 2009, 03:09 PM
|- - ustrax   As more as I look at them the worst the choices lo...   Mar 23 2009, 03:20 PM
||- - Poolio   QUOTE (ustrax @ Mar 23 2009, 10:20 AM) Be...   Mar 23 2009, 04:30 PM
||- - MahFL   All spacecraft with camera's give us a vision....   Mar 23 2009, 04:33 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (jamescanvin @ Mar 23 2009, 07:09 A...   Mar 23 2009, 04:12 PM
|- - ustrax   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 23 2009, 04:12 P...   Mar 23 2009, 04:22 PM
|- - AndyG   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 23 2009, 04:12 P...   Mar 23 2009, 04:25 PM
|- - dvandorn   QUOTE (AndyG @ Mar 23 2009, 10:25 AM) Nex...   Mar 24 2009, 12:27 AM
- - lyford   In all humility, I was secretly hoping for my sugg...   Mar 23 2009, 04:06 PM
- - Fran Ontanaya   Well, one characteristic distinction between MER a...   Mar 23 2009, 04:52 PM
- - DarthVader   Have to said that all the names selected are rathe...   Mar 23 2009, 04:53 PM
- - eoincampbell   .. as far as nicknames go, Perception leads us to ...   Mar 23 2009, 04:57 PM
|- - MahFL   Hopefully someone from NASA will read our 10 or so...   Mar 23 2009, 05:07 PM
- - Stu   Sorry, when I read the word "Sunrise" I...   Mar 23 2009, 05:14 PM
- - algorimancer   Agreed, these are all some amazingly lame names. ...   Mar 23 2009, 05:16 PM
- - Stu   I personally think it's great that kids are in...   Mar 23 2009, 05:24 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 23 2009, 10:24 AM) ...gr...   Mar 23 2009, 06:54 PM
||- - Stu   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Mar 23 2009, 06:54 PM...   Mar 23 2009, 07:04 PM
||- - punkboi   QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 23 2009, 12:04 PM) I don...   Mar 23 2009, 07:29 PM
||- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 23 2009, 11:04 AM) Are w...   Mar 23 2009, 07:39 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (Stu @ Mar 23 2009, 09:24 AM) After...   Mar 24 2009, 01:43 AM
- - jmjawors   I hate to say it, but I wholeheartedly agree. The...   Mar 23 2009, 07:02 PM
- - imipak   Wow, I'm glad it's not just me that thinks...   Mar 23 2009, 08:18 PM
|- - AndyG   Female aviators do not, of course, start and end a...   Mar 23 2009, 09:52 PM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (imipak @ Mar 24 2009, 03:18 AM) Co...   Mar 24 2009, 12:11 AM
- - climber   If Wonder's choosen, it'll become Wally, a...   Mar 23 2009, 09:43 PM
- - rogelio   Pursuit, Journey, Spirit … Seems a bit pallid and ...   Mar 23 2009, 09:59 PM
- - dvandorn   The only one that I even begin to like is "Jo...   Mar 24 2009, 12:43 AM
- - SpaceListener   I tought that the mission of MSL is based on ...   Mar 24 2009, 12:52 AM
- - Astro0   On Stu's point of engaging children in science...   Mar 24 2009, 12:52 AM
- - ngunn   'Roundup' - now that's a much better n...   Mar 24 2009, 12:16 PM
|- - MahFL   They should call her "Darwin". It was hi...   Mar 24 2009, 12:27 PM
|- - ynyralmaen   The Japanese word for Sunrise is in use for anothe...   Mar 24 2009, 01:03 PM
- - BrianL   I held my nose and voted for Journey. I tried drag...   Mar 24 2009, 12:53 PM
|- - Oersted   Even "Colbert" would have been better th...   Mar 24 2009, 01:01 PM
||- - lyford   QUOTE (Oersted @ Mar 24 2009, 05:01 AM) E...   Mar 24 2009, 03:04 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (BrianL @ Mar 24 2009, 04:53 AM) I ...   Mar 24 2009, 01:43 PM
|- - BrianL   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ Mar 24 2009, 07:43 AM...   Mar 24 2009, 09:54 PM
- - nprev   Stepping back a bit, it almost seems as if US spac...   Mar 24 2009, 05:53 PM
- - Poolio   Might I propose a fifth category as well, one that...   Mar 24 2009, 06:11 PM
- - elakdawalla   Journey has a new lease on life -- it's no lon...   Mar 24 2009, 10:28 PM
|- - dougs_better_half   I voted too - I went for Sunrise first (because it...   Mar 25 2009, 10:56 AM
|- - Geert   QUOTE (dougs_better_half @ Mar 25 2009, 05...   Mar 25 2009, 11:26 AM
- - mps   QUOTE (Poolio @ Mar 24 2009, 08:11 PM) im...   Mar 25 2009, 12:42 PM
- - Patteroast   It took me a while to narrow down which I disliked...   Mar 25 2009, 01:00 PM
- - nprev   Well, after reviewing the naming traditions (agree...   Mar 25 2009, 03:07 PM
- - gpurcell   I think it should be called Rover. Then it would ...   Mar 25 2009, 10:22 PM
- - punkboi   The name for MSL should be announced any day now.   May 4 2009, 11:37 PM
- - James Sorenson   I was just listening to the JPL Ustream open house...   May 5 2009, 06:56 AM
|- - punkboi   Sigh. I guess it's difficult to choose from s...   May 5 2009, 07:56 PM
- - Oersted   When you see it, only "Big Ass Rover" se...   May 23 2009, 10:46 AM
|- - ustrax   And the winner is...Curiosity...   May 27 2009, 02:44 PM
- - jmjawors   Article - [link] Color me 'unimpressed.' ...   May 27 2009, 02:52 PM
- - jamescanvin   Well, like Opportunity it has far too many syllabl...   May 27 2009, 03:00 PM
- - djellison   This is my pre-emptive 'don't bitch and mo...   May 27 2009, 03:04 PM
|- - Hungry4info   QUOTE (djellison @ May 27 2009, 09:04 AM)...   May 27 2009, 03:28 PM
|- - mcaplinger   QUOTE (djellison @ May 27 2009, 08:04 AM)...   May 27 2009, 03:35 PM
|- - Norm Hartnett   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ May 27 2009, 07:35 AM...   May 27 2009, 04:49 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (mcaplinger @ May 27 2009, 04:35 PM...   May 27 2009, 04:57 PM
- - hendric   Curiosity has landed! Curiosity has passed the...   May 27 2009, 03:33 PM
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