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NASA Contest To Name ISS Module
Solarch writes "NASA is holding a contest to name ISS Node 3. Being a Browncoat myself, I should hope that the choice of names would be obvious. As of the 7:30 PM EST on 2/25, the name Serenity has over 80% of the vote. From the site: 'Node 3 will connect to the port side of the Unity Node and will provide room for many of the station's life support systems, in the form of eight refrigerator-sized racks. After Node 3 is installed, the station's crew will transfer over many of the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) currently stored in various places around the station.'"
80% of the vote for Serenity, huh? I would have thought geek culture would have been able to come up with something original rather than a rehashed idea from a canceled TV show.
"Tell me doctor, with all of your defenses, are there any provisions for an attack by killer bees?"
I think it's fitting that the life support, which hopefully will give peace of mind to those up there in the ISS, is most likely going to be named Serenity.
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Wow, Nasa /.'ed
I know we aren't meant to complain about missing poll options; but battletoad anyone?!
I voted for Bitey.
So a single hit could wipe all all life support (as we know it.)
it does tie in nicely with the other two names, Unity and Harmony.
In fact, coupled with those two names, there won't be anything to indicate that Serenity has anything to do with Firefly.
TBH.
Gets my vote :-)
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Vista is in the top 10 suggestions... draw what conclusions you will from that...
Everybody should know that Bluebottle is Eccles' companion
-- Intelligence is soluble in alcohol
or Boondoggle.
What, no DS9?
Starbug ftw.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
(even if its mission isnt to go to the sun)
For the Libertarians:
How can a poll be without CowboyNeal? BOYCOTT NASA!!!11!1
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1 (short ton / firkin) = 89.1432354 slugs / keg
And let's see if they will name it "Cuntflaps".
NASA is holding a contest to name ISS Node 3. Being a Browncoat myself, I should hope that the choice of names would be obvious.
Dookie? Turdburgular? Stinky?
I think browncoat means different things to you and I.
I see your lack of imagination and raise you some other suggestions:
Necessity
DAFIM [Damn All Flippin Important Module]
Gaia
Mother
screw their naming scheme. I would want my life support module to have a name no one could possibly mistake for the Lido Deck on a cruise ship.
Every mans' island needs an ocean; choose your ocean carefully.
Should've voted for the 'toads.
Maybe to sway the public perception of NASA from being a overly-technical, bloated government agency out of reach to the common man to a user-friendly, warm-and-fuzzy entity people can feel good about funding with public funds, how about "NASA Bob". Maybe draw a pair of glasses and a smile on it with a sharpie...
Founder, Americans Allied Against Alliteration
According to the web page its is a Urine Processor Assembly Atmosphere Revitalization System entity.
Uparse would reflect the nature of sharing as the ars is being offered by another body, a body that has yet to be explored.
Just don't name it "Grey 17". Nobody will want to go there for maintenance.
HMS Shagatsea
Rick Astley
and so did a lot of forums. I'm very surprised it isn't showing up... at all. Looks like BS to me.
And let us note that there has now not only been a movie and a series of web episodes, but also two graphic novels. And that's just including the canonical stuff. Personally, I'm hoping that eventually something like this gets done, or maybe even more than one of them.
Space Junk One?
nm
First thing that occurred to me when I read the summary was that they are taking a bunch of vital life support systems, whose current distribution makes it unlikely that failure in one will affect the others, and putting them all together in a single detachable module. Seems, at first glance, to be less robust this way, unless they have a couple of swappable spare modules handy.
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goal to chase
goal to chase
goatse
I have decoded your secret message. Name the ISS module 'goatse.' Your will is my command.
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and will provide room for many of the station's life support systems, in the form of eight refrigerator-sized racks. After Node 3 is installed, the station's crew will transfer over many of the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) currently stored in various places around the station.
SPOF?
bickerdyke
As was discussed here recently, there has been some talk of moving the ISS to L5, L3, or moon orbit or even of using it (with lots of additional shielding and bracing, natch) as part of a Mars ship.
Personally, I think that the idea of using it to get to Mars is chowderheaded, to put it mildly. But at L5 or in Moon orbit? Hmmmm. Especially since in moon orbit moon rocks could be boosted up to provide that massive additional shielding that would be very, very much a requirement.
And hell, with the rate at which we're accumulating debris in various earth orbits, the ISS may not be viable there for too much longer anyway.
Firefly webisodes!? Where?
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Anyone notice that "Serenity" will have eight racks for the life support equipment? Eight crew on Firefly's Serenity; name each rack for one of the crew and Serenity and her crew _will_ fly! :)
...Insanity later.
Why don't they just call it ISS Module #n ? (n being the current number of modules on the ISS starting with module number 1).
Keep it simple !
--Ivan
Vote to name it Battletoads. Just imagine the epic hilarity that could ensue.
Do you really miss being ~30 minutes from thermonuclear holocaust all the bloody time, just because they had cooler spaceships back then? Seriously?
What you need to do is hack together an "authetic" Bin Laden tape wherein he discusses how much a successful American space program would upset him...
Lets All Pray It Travels Up Precisely This Time Module.
Or the LAPITUP-TT.
Just because we can.
a name no one could possibly mistake for the Lido Deck on a cruise ship.
Chuck Norris?
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
But why are they moving all the life support to *one* module.
Wouldn't you want that spread around evenly, so that every module could sustain itself *and* additional crew?
Randy - iguessimnotarocketscientist
After Node 3 is installed, the station's crew will transfer over many of the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) currently stored in various places around the station.
Basket, meet all the eggs.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man still has no depth perception.
Do you really miss being ~30 minutes from thermonuclear holocaust all the bloody time, just because they had cooler spaceships back then? Seriously?
Actually I preferred that to the situation we have now -- stateless actors with access to modern technology. Nuclear weapons aren't really that scary when you look at some of the advances in biotechnology and contemplate the fact that it's a lot easier to weaponize naturally occurring organisms than it is to get your hands on weapons grade plutonium. Anthrax exists in nature and resides on every continent. Pu-239 is a bit harder to come by.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Check out the windows in the bump out on the "bottom" of the module... Given the view, why not Ten Forward... (But only if the bar is stocked with Synthohol and served by Guinan)
Brawndo: It's what plants crave!
Given that it is going to house the water and urine recycling apparatus maybe the name should be "Porta Potty". :)
who thinks it's entirely appropriate that this is the module with the UPA and the toilets in it (which is intended to be a loving observation, and not a crack, in case you were wondering)...
Incidentally, in case y'all haven't look *into* said toilets, they have an interesting design.
Near as I can figure, the shit is *supposed* to hit the fan.
(Yes, yes, I stole it from Spider, ok? I'll be here all week.)
To be honest, I preferred the concept of "mutually assured destruction", that the current "US guaranteed destruction".
The US wasn't quite so blase about wandering into foreign countries and trying to impose their view on things, when they thought the USSR might have something to say about it.
There was a barrier to things, the US tried not to piss off the neighbours too often ... now they wander all over the neighbours lawn and let their dog shit on it.
the Wankerpod? Or the Global Boondoggle Module?
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Vote Nostromo!
Necessity, brilliant.
ISS Titanic, of course.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
I had the opposite experience. After I voted for Serenity I found that one potential option already given was Xenu, and I missed it! Damn...
Serenity? Really? It is a space station, not a ship. It should obviously be called Babylon.
As much as serenity is a popular favorite, Necessity is perhaps the best name mentioned so far. *golf clap*
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
"After Node 3 is installed, the station's crew will transfer over many of the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems (ECLSS) currently stored in various places around the station."
Perhaps they should name it 'Basket,' as they seem to be putting all of their eggs into it.
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There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...
Serenity my foot.
Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me...
Don't rush me, Sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.
My friend, I present to you the River Tam sessions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6n1PMZ-TBs
Three guesses as to who the "analyst" is.
I voted Serenity, but had second thoughts once I saw "Xenu" in the top suggestions. That would be just grand.
On third thought though, we probably don't want to piss Mr. Cruise off. He may decide to fly up there and start beating on ISS with a crowbar or something.
had to be said.
Given that it will be next to 'Unity', maybe it should be called 'Charlie Murphy!!!' or 'Rick James, B!7ch!!!'.
There is only one name suitable for a device that will forever orbit this wonderful planet and look over us; Stephen Colbert.
"Being a Browncoat myself, I should hope that the choice of names would be obvious. "
Yes, but naming it Ernst Roehm would involve Godwin's Law every time somebody tried to discuss the craft.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
Might I suggest "Downbelow"?
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
That has a sexy ring to it. More seriously, I dislike NASA's tendency to name every little thing with pompous names. Just look at what they are calling the local terrain around the Mars rovers (eg, the "Columbia Hills").
Ah, the warm and fuzzy but nebulous concept of hope, made so cliche by the Obama campaign. If Obama is anything, he's great at marketing himself. The word "hope" implies wishing that your circumstances will improve without any action on your part. No wonder his campaign resonated so much with this slothful and decadent generation. There's just no end of people standing around with their hands out, wanting their lives to be devoid of all the pain of a normal human existence, personal liberties be damned! When I see a glass-eyed Obama-worshiper muttering "Hope" as they watch an image of the Dear Leader speak, I see an animal in a cage licking the hand of its master.
"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
-Benjamin Franklin
Sorry, but we aren't naming a space ship here. It's a module. If anything it's an insult to name in Serenity. Stop letting your hard on for that show cloud your thinking. How about naming it after someone? like Feynman, or Asimov? For the record I enjoyed Firefly from Day 1, and am responsible for getting everyone near me to buy the DVDs After I made them borrow mine. So yeah, I'm a fan. I prefer to wear Hawaiian shirts, and not a browncoat.
I'm no engineer, but I'm assuming the current life-support modules will be left installed as a backup or failsafe. I would assume that removing the other life support systems would be a waste of time.
Despite their more well known failures, NASA usually builds a backup for the backup of the backup system.
I'm suprised "Freeside" and "Villa Straylight" haven't been mentioned. A few more suggestions:
Hull Breach
Auto Destruct
Warning Extreme Hazard to Crew
Watchtower
Fortress of Very Little Solitude
House of Pain
House of Fun
House of 1000 Corpses
House of the Rising Sun
Not That Node The Other Node No The OTHER Other Node.
Prisencolinensinainciusol. Ol Rait!
I'm no fan of contemporary US foreign policy; but the notion that it was any nicer during the cold war seems pretty dubious. MAD was a pretty good deterrent in terms of preventing direct military action within the nuclear superpower club; but we more than made up for it in proxy wars fought on, and often by, weaker third parties and their inhabitants. Even beyond direct conflict, I'm not sure we met a single right wing dictator whose death squads we weren't happy to pay for during the time.
Ahh, "Serenity". What a sweet name that's not tied to any short-lived Sci-Fi TV show with rabid fan base!
Actually, "Serena" should be better, since that's the proper name form of "serene". And, of course, "Serena" also isn't tied to any TV show popular with people on the Japanimation/Sci-Fi Überdork axis.
(The above said with love, for the humor-impaired out there.)
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
If they do name it Serenity (got my vote) they should paint the Serenity logo on the side :)
For some reason I read "browncoat" but thought "brownshirt". the Adolph Hitler Life Support Module just seems wrong.
"Waste and hygiene compartment, which provides a place for the crew to use the bathroom in a way that allows the station to process the majority of the water used onboard so that it may be used again"
Maybe we should call it the Mariner.
"Million Dollar Boondoggle"
Phased ISS Atmosphere and WAter Yielding System
aka PISS AWAY $
Anybody want a peanut?
I think NASA knows how to build a damn good basket. Not that they always DO, but they CAN.
Anyway, it doesn't seem like they're rolling all the life support units into one, just moving them all into the same module. If anything I'd guess that would make maintenance and service a heck of a lot easier.
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Clearly; it should be named Ten Forward
My suggestions:
* moneypit
* wasteoftaxdollars
* futurespacedebris
* meteoroid
* future meteor
There may be some terms in Russian which have a particular ring not in English. They are our the biggest partners.
seems appropriate.
What about "Number 3". That's a good name.
I see your lack of imagination and raise you some other suggestions:
Space Nipple?
"Too Little Gravitas to Measure"?
...only Zuul.
and Jewel Staite (what a porn star name) won't be boned in the engine room.
Well personally I think this issue can be fixed.
I volunteer to help!
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Isn't it tempting fate to name a module that has the Oxygen Generation System in it Serenity? Asphyxiated astronauts would be serene, yes, but I'm nominating "Norge" or "Grabthor's Module" or possibly "Grond".
Oh ferchrisakes! The summary doesn't even mention what is clearly the most awesome feature of Node 3: the cupola that will be on the end. Big windows will allow astronauts to have a great view of earth. Right now all they have are little porthole windows. They'll even be moving the robotics control station into there because then they can have a direct view of what they're doing, instead of relying solely on camera angles.
I'm not a fan of the movie or TV show, but I agree that Serenity is GREAT name for this module, considering the cupola.
One simple rule for its versus it's
name the new module either the Arthur C. Clarke
or Odyssey.
I'm a huge Whedon fan, but c'mon, Arthur C. Clarke invented geo-stationary satellites and is associated with the most famous space station in our history (from his movie and book of 2001 A Space Odyssey.)
Save Serenity for something more appropriate!
After you vote it shows percentages and Serenity has 86% of the vote apparently. Screen shot posted here. So either Serenity is winning, or that is the most miss leading user interface I have seen. Perhaps both!
Think Deeply.
Pfft, whats with all these strange names. What happened to KISS (Keep it simple stupid)?
Your not going to remember what colbert does after the alarm goes off and you need to figure out wheres the life support system.
Thus, I propose the name Life Support Module I.
Vote for Zaphod!
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I HOPE THIS IS OK
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