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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.'"
Think of it more like an homage to a fallen comrade.
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
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.
or Boondoggle.
Starbug ftw.
If sharing a song makes you a pirate, what do I have to share to be a ninja?
Sure, it's unreliable in the same sense as Captain Kirk is mortal and could be killed as easily as one of the red shirts. A breakdown or damage may heighten tension but you can be pretty damn sure it'll be flying again in the next episode. In fact, being on an "undestructable" ship like the Death Star is an almost certain guarantee you're really on the Titanic instead. All things considered Firefly is probably the safest ship in its universe, though I'd still prefer a recent USS Enterprise for the holodeck.
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
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?
P.S. - Liberals love the Constitution. It's just all those pesky amendments they hate - especially numbers 1 (dissent must be suppressed), 2 (the people must be de-fanged so as not to be in a position to object), and 10 (the Founders had it wrong - the states should be subservient to the Federal government).
Quick, email NASA before they forget to engineer reliability in the new space station they're launching next week.
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.
"Million Dollar Boondoggle"