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 May 9 2011, 01:18 AM
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QUOTE (nprev @ May 9 2011, 12:31 AM)  TiME, of all missions to date, deserves a nautical name. We've honored past astronomers with Galileo, Cassini and Huygens. So why not honor a mariner like Captain James Cook, Roald Amundsen, or James Clark Ross. It seems that an explorer of the Arctic or Antarctic oceans would be a good choice for a robotic explorer of the frigid lakes of Titan. Or maybe even a ship's name? Perhaps the Fram, or even the Titan Challenger, to honor that historic 19th century oceanographic voyage. |
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May 9 2011, 04:35 PM
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I vote for Shackleton's ship 'Endurance' :
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May 10 2011, 12:44 PM
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QUOTE (jasedm @ May 9 2011, 09:35 AM) I vote for Shackleton's ship 'Endurance' : Despite the honor of Shackleton & men and their long struggle, not sure if that is the best name for a probe with a (sadly) limited mission life |
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May 10 2011, 01:46 PM
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Forum Contributor Group: Members Posts: 1372 Joined: 8-February 04 From: North East Florida, USA. Member No.: 11 |
How about "Armada" from "The Spanish Armada" , they did not last very long.....
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May 10 2011, 10:21 PM
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I like "Admunsen"; seems like a very apropos honor for him, and for the Titanian environment. Alternatively, if naming TiME after a polar sailing ship that lasted a limited time or made a limited voyage is the selected paradigm, what was/were the names of his ship(s)?
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May 10 2011, 11:13 PM
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Amundsen and Scott were names for the DS2 microprobes, so that's out.
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May 10 2011, 11:20 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Argh...right, right...bummer!
Hmm. Wonder if there are any historical Aleut, Inupaq (sp?), or other "Eskimo" sailors? Should be; they were seafaring people, albeit limited in sortie length by environmental constraints. A name from that tradition would also be quite appropriate (esp. since the mission would be targeted for the north polar area of Titan). -------------------- 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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May 10 2011, 11:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1582 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
Call it the Cuyahoga. Volatile organics and all that.
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May 10 2011, 11:36 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ May 10 2011, 11:13 PM) Amundsen and Scott were names for the DS2 microprobes, so that's out. Do those count as real spacecraft? -------------------- |
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May 10 2011, 11:40 PM
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How about the Fram?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram Sailed further north and south than any other wooden ship. |
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May 10 2011, 11:42 PM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 10 2011, 03:36 PM) Do those count as real spacecraft? They certainly weren't fake. |
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May 11 2011, 12:38 AM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ May 10 2011, 03:36 PM) Do those count as real spacecraft? Obviously NASA can set the rules any way it wants. But for the Mars Exploration Rover naming contest, any name ever used for any spacecraft in the past was out, which eliminated what many considered the most obvious choices for their names: Lewis and Clark. (2005 was the bicentennial of the start of their expedition, so it would have been very appropriate.) -------------------- My website - My Patreon - @elakdawalla on Twitter - Please support unmannedspaceflight.com by donating here.
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May 11 2011, 01:02 AM
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The names of the Vikings that discovered Greenland and North America about 1000 years ago are names that for obvious reasons look like obvious choices to me (although which spelling of their names to use (English, Icelandic, the spelling used 1000 years ago or even Norwegian) isn't totally obvious).
That said, I hope TiME gets selected. It looks like an extremely interesting mission, especially when keeping in mind that there's no flagship mission to Saturn in sight for the next 1-2 decades or more. I'm pleasantly surprised at how interesting/ambitious all three proposals look considering that these are 'only' Discovery missions. Chopper is my second choice (there has been a lot of Mars missions over the past 15 years). |
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May 11 2011, 01:53 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Hey - we could call it TiME.
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May 11 2011, 01:57 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8783 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
To be sure.
 The clock is indeed ticking; to answer my own question, the final selection apparently happens in June 2012.
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