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Remains of James Doohan Lost in New Mexico

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the red-shirts-all-around dept.

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!"

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  1. Obvious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    He was always wearing a red shirt. It was inevitable that he would be lost.

    1. Re:Obvious by solitas · · Score: 5, Funny

      http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_expendab ility.jpg

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  2. Raise your hands by suv4x4 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Who else thinks the whole idea is kinda retarded? I mean, in the beginning I thought the ashes of those people will be dispersed in space, which was very strong as a symbol and a ceremony, of sorts.

    But carry them in space and land them (and now .. to lose them)? What the hell was the effin point of this whole thing?

    1. Re:Raise your hands by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      I had this in mind when I chose to bury two of my dogs in the backyard.

      How did you get them to stay there? Mine always dig themselves out.

  3. clear throat, cue theremin by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  4. Re:what by wizardforce · · Score: 5, Informative

    If the rocket did what it was supposed to why would the remains and other crap have come back to earth?
    because it was never meant to leave Earth completely, it was SUPPOSED to come back down
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  5. Re:No problem. by novus+ordo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Keith Richards' nose?

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