markh@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Mark William Hopkins) (05/17/88)
Space station S Y N T H E S I S (ahhhh .... just right)
wooding@daisy.UUCP (Mike Wooding) (05/18/88)
Perhaps ASIMOV: Astronauts Space Inhabitable Module for Orbiting Vacations. m wooding
Daniel_C_Anderson@cup.portal.com (05/18/88)
I second motion to name a Space Station after the late and sincerely lamented Robert A. Heinlein. Anyone who cares at all about space probably cut their (<--non-sexist 'third person indefinite' pronoun) teeth on Heinlein's stories. (-:"My opinions should be those of my employers":-)
zaphod@diku.dk (Ole D. M. Lennert) (05/18/88)
Naming the space station: How about Arthur C. Clarke ?
jlg@beta.UUCP (Jim Giles) (05/20/88)
How about 'Ricercar' (pronounced reach-er-car). It is the English word for the musical form now called a fugue (a Latin word- through Italian). The roots of the word are the same as for 'research', in fact one of the meanings of the word used to be 'to seek'. This seems to capture the flavor that the space program should work for - both artistic and scientific.
cc1@CS.UCLA.EDU (05/21/88)
How about "Fred"? Yeah. Fred the Space Station. I like that. --Net.Rabbit
mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick) (05/23/88)
In article <5568@cup.portal.com> Daniel_C_Anderson@cup.portal.com writes: >I second motion to name a Space Station after the late and >sincerely lamented Robert A. Heinlein. If the space-station was named the "Robert A. Heinlein", would it be called "Bob" for short?? By the way, the list of names I posted is the working list by the naming committee. They are not accepting any new names as of last week. "Roger Houston, Space Station Bob 1, copies. . . ." -- *** mike (Cyberpunk in training) smithwick *** "Use an Atari, go to jail!" [disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]
erc@pai.UUCP (Eric Johnson) (05/26/88)
In article <12487@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, cc1@CS.UCLA.EDU writes: > How about "Fred"? > > --Net.Rabbit Count mine as another vote for Space Station Fred -- Eric F. Johnson | Phone +1 612-894-0313 | Are we Prime Automation,Inc | UUCP: ihnp4!umn-cs!hall!pai!erc | having 12201 Wood Lake Drive | UUCP: sun!tundra!pai!erc | fun Burnsville, MN 55337 USA | BIX: erc | yet?
william@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk (06/03/88)
Ummmm ... how about calling it Icarus? Sounds like it might be kind of appropriate one day ? ... Bill UCL, London, Europe. Don't believe everything you hear, william@uk.ac.ucl.cs or anything you say.
emanuel@cernvax.UUCP (emanuel) (06/10/88)
In article <44700001@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> william@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk writes: > >Ummmm ... how about calling it Icarus? Sounds like it might be >kind of appropriate one day ? Hmmmm... Sounds like bad luck... I think we're doomed... we're not gonna make it... I know it.. :-) -- Emanuel T.M. Machado, CERN | "Science is true. | UUCP: _ _ | Don't be misled | emanuel@cernvax.UUCP /_ ____ __ __ _ </ | by facts." | DECNET: /_ / / / /_ < / / /_/ <'_ /_ | -- Finagle's Creed | machado@vxcern.cern
gckaplan@soup.ssl.berkeley.edu (George Kaplan) (06/10/88)
Several people around here have been mispronouncing Mir to rhyme with 'myrrh'. Maybe we should call our station 'Frankincense' :-) (Actually, Mir sounds more like 'mere') - George Kaplan gckaplan@ssl.berkeley.edu gckaplan@sag2.ssl.berkeley.edu ..!ucbvax!ucbssl!sag2!gckaplan
schuetz@iravcl.ira.uka.de (06/14/88)
In article <44700001@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk>, william@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk writes: > how about calling it Icarus? > ... Bill Oh no! Ikarus would be a bad omen. The legend says: Daedalus (the father of Ikarus) build two flying apparatus in order to escape from a Greek island. He told his son never fly to low because water would make the feathers heavy and never fly to high because sun would smelt the wax the feathers were fastened. But Ikarus did not obey and flew higher and higher and crashed. Daedalus succeded. Elmar -- We can be heroes - just for one day -- David Bowie
william@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk (06/17/88)
> Oh no! Ikarus would be a bad omen. > ... > But Ikarus did not obey and flew higher and higher and crashed. > Daedalus succeded. > > Elmar I wouldnt say that it is a bad omen. Lets look ahead to a couple of years after the station goes up, and it gets hit by a piece of space junk, or a shuttle crashes into it, or someone inadvertantly turns all its space-facing manoeuvering jets on full power, or anything else causing an unscheduled landing in Siberia. And then, for the first time ever, people will be lauding the fore-sightedness of the guys at NASA! An awesome concept! Alternatively, I will vote for "Space Station Titanic". ... Bill Witts UCL, London, Europe. Don't believe everything you hear, william@uk.ac.ucl.cs or anything you say.