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Scotty To Be 'Beamed Up'
joel_archer writes "James 'Scotty' Doohan's remains will be launched into space in accord with his last wishes. Commercial space flight operator Space Services Inc. will launch the late actor's remains into space aboard its Explorers Flight on December 6. Along for the ride will be 120 others including an unidentified astronaut and Mareta West, the astrogeologist who determined the site for the first spacecraft landing on the moon. Fans can post tributes to Doohan at the Space Services Web site. Those messages will be digitized, packed with 'Scotty' and blasted into space."
Not that I have anything against Mr Doohan personally, but this strikes me as an incredibly stupid idea.
Why waste all that money, time and effort putting *dead people* into orbit so they can float around for a while being a space junk hazard?
As Mr Spock would say...
-- Braden's law of data: All data spends some of its lifetime in an excel spreadsheet.
. . .just publicity
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.their orbit will decay in a decade or so.
Ya mean like a tombstone? It's a memorial. Publicity is inherent in their nature.
Those ashes aren't really going into space, just low-earth orbit. .
i.e., space.
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I canna change the laws of physics, Cap'n, but what better way to scatter a gram or seven of Jimmy's ashes upon the face of the earth Earth? That's one shooting movie star I'd like to see with my own eyes.
So long Jimmy, and thanks for all the Trek.
KFG
If it weren't for his disease (and later, death) I imagine he would have been right there beside Walter Koenig in a fan-produced episode.
;)), for me there's something really special about them willing to go that extra mile for their fans (and enjoying it as well) that puts them above others, such as the actor who played Kirk.
While actors like the one that played Spock are much more famous then "the little guys" like Doohan and Koenig (not that they're very little
I'll answer my own question. I'm 42 years old, and with that age (including a family with two amazing daughters that I scarecly deserve) comes a belief that there's something bigger than my not-so-amazing life... that the two children I fathered (and especially the wife who bore them) are somehow more wonderful than me, or anything I could imagine. A surprising consideration from someone who has developed a sense of wonder but who doesn't have a belief in the supernatural. I'm in awe of my progeny and the woman who agreed to share her life with me...
Why is it that the news of James' passing makes me think of this, here in the wee hours of the morning? I guess it's not hard to deconstruct... I think we'd all like to be the one who worked behind the scenes, the one who made things possible but never got the credit for it. It's a romantic thought that is powerful in me...
With the most reverent "I'm givin' 'er all she's got, Captain!",
- Leo
You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
Yeah. Just replace "Scotty" with "Pile of ashes". and "Beamed up" with "rocket launched" and we'll have an title that reflects reality.
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.