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Remains of James Doohan Lost in New Mexico
caffiend666 writes "According to a Space.com news article the cremated remains of 200 people were lost in the mountains after their trip to space. 'The search for the UP Aerospace payload of experiments and the cremated remains of some 200 people — including "Scotty" of Star Trek fame, as well as pioneeering NASA Mercury astronaut, Gordon Cooper — continues within rugged New Mexico mountain landscape.' Is it just me, or does it seem appropriate that they lost the landing party? Here's to a safe recovery!"
Spock will figure out the only logical place it could be.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
As Gordo would have said: "Looks like someone screwed the pooch on this one".
Where would we be if Wheel had hid her round rock in a cave instead of showing everyone how it rolls?
He *knew* the Nexus was going to go through that exact point.
He was always wearing a red shirt. It was inevitable that he would be lost.
Rural New Mexico, the final frontier. These are the remains of James Doohan. Its five-minute mission: to explore cactus and scrub mesas; to not burn up and burst its canister; to boldly go where no cremated remains have gone before.
oooooo waaaahhh, wah wah wah wah wah....
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Man, if I was, like, "Send my ashes into space when I die" and they were like, "OK, we can send you in a suborbital trajectory", I'd be all like, "Fuck that bitches, I said SPACE".
This is the second time he's put himself into a transporter loop waiting for rescue.
Clevernickname better get off his blog and go get him.
I am a doctor not an orbital scientist!
I think the point was to see how the remains of several cremated people reacted to zero g conditions. We now now that when subjected to these certain conditions they gain enough intelligence to outsmart NASA :)
Or just put a tractor beam on it on the way down.
"Yah c'nt bury me, yoo got na ashes!"
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Has anyone checked ebay yet?
What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
The ship has been found, but unfortunately everyone on board have been confirmed dead. :(
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
He's dead, Jim!
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Either way good call.
The capsule probably just encountered a rift in spacetime and ended up landing somewhere like ancient Rome or 1920s Chicago. As I understand it, this kind of thing happens all the time to space vehicles. They probably shouldn't waste too much effort looking for it in the present.
On Ebay...
After all those years of saying things like "she's breaking up cap'n, she can't take much more of this", it was bound to eventually happen. The engineer had to pass away before his ship even had a chance of malfunctioning like this, after all. ;)
He just stored himself in the transporter buffer.
...gone where no man has gone before. (But they're trying to fix that too)
How did you get them to stay there? Mine always dig themselves out.
You misspelled tractor beam.
Why o' why didn't they just fire him into the side of a nearby Mountain - it'd have saved on the Rocket fuel and thereby made a smaller environmental ... impact. :o/
Firmly clutching the remote in one hand, right? :)
That kinda sucks for anyone years in the future who may want to study the body to see how you lived and what caused your death.
We're in the 21-st century. He doesn't need to study your body to find how you lived, he just needs to Google your name.
It's to keep them in the ground when the zombie apocalypse comes.
Your thoughts form your reality.
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
Taking measurements at two points to find something is surely why they call it triangulation.
"You heard the man, Tubbs.. get undressed."
Ironic that the remains of the transporter chief lie in an area so inaccessible. A solid advocate for beam technology even from beyond the grave!