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Scotty's Final Mission

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 4, 2008 @01:25AM from the best-way-to-go dept.

Jane Q. Public writes "According to Ars Technica, the ashes of James Doohan, who played "Scotty" in the original 'Star Trek' series and several movies, were aboard the SpaceX III launch and were lost when the launch vehicle failed." Which totally wouldn't have happened if Scotty was the engineer.

Update: 08/05 00:09 GMT by KD : BoingBoing has a tribute to Doohan from his son.

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Old News? by whisper_jeff · 2008-08-04 01:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong (not that anyone on /. needs permission for that...), but isn't this old news? Even old news by Slashdot standards?
1. Re:Old News? by Thuktun · 2008-08-04 08:25 · Score: 0, Redundant
  
  This is the SECOND time its happened. More like deja vu than old news...Even reality has a dupe now and then.
  No, those are glitches in the Matrix.
Re:It's worse than that by rodney+dill · 2008-08-04 02:16 · Score: 0, Redundant

"Cap'n Cap'n I can nawt geet it oop... I gawta have thutty minutes."

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