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NASA to unveil space station name on Colbert show
Dr J R Stockton wrote:
In sci.space.policy message U4OdnXOFfP_NSXnUnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@earthlink. com, Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:23:22, "Greg D. Moore (Strider)" mooregr_dele posted: "Dr J R Stockton" wrote in message nvalid... The module may now become burdened with the name of a second-rate self- publicist, when it could have been named after, for example, the famous European astrodynamicist Moriarty. Remind me again why an American module should be named after some European most Americans have never heard of? As an educational experience. If that is the objective, there are plenty of Americans it could have been named for. |
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NASA to unveil space station name on Colbert show
"NASA risked the wrath of millions of comedy fans
across cosmos on Tuesday, announcing it had named the International Space Station's next module "Tranquility."" Source: http://www.space-travel.com/reports/...ity_999.h tml |
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NASA to unveil space station name on Colbert show
Dr J R Stockton wrote: You obviously do *now*. One of my write-in suggestions, Moore, would not have satisfied the principle of not using names referring to living persons (Moriarty would have doubly satisfied that); but my write-in of Clarke, in one form or another, would alas have done so. The latter is one of the only two qualifying Englishmen I can immediately think of who consistently have used the US style of name, with the minor initial and two names; NASA would probably have omitted the well-earned honorific, so that the honoree would sound like an American. I think the basic concept on naming ISS modules is to avoid all names of individuals, so as to add to the international aspect of its design. So you end up with names like "Harmony" and "Tranquility", which make it sound like the station is on Prozac. :-) Pat |
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NASA to unveil space station name on Colbert show
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message dakotatelephone... I think the basic concept on naming ISS modules is to avoid all names of individuals, so as to add to the international aspect of its design. So you end up with names like "Harmony" and "Tranquility", which make it sound like the station is on Prozac. :-) They should look in the yellow pages There's a lot of non individual names in there mk5000 "We are not helpless children! "--Prof. Walter Vale: The Visitor |
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NASA to unveil space station name on Colbert show
Btw... Here's a quote from Cliff May in tonight's Jon Stewart
interview on tortu "Literally, this is the best conversation I have had on this subject anywhere." "And I've had it on CNN and I've had it on Fox. This is the best one by far, because it's the most honest and the most open." (With Jon Stewart's reply being, "Here's why... Those places suck.") ~ CT |
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