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NASA Names an Asteroid After 'Star Trek' Actor Wil Wheaton (cnet.com)
"An asteroid going boldly through the universe now carries a new name that honors actor Will Wheaton, who played Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation," reports CNET. An anonymous reader quotes their article.
The announcement showed up on Twitter Wednesday from NASA's Ron Baalke, who describes himself as a "space explorer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory". Wheaton is in good company with other Star Trek alumni. Asteroid 7307 Takei is named for Sulu actor George Takei and 68410 Nichols gets its name from Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura. There's also asteroid 4659 Roddenberry for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
"Today, I found out that I kind of get to be in space and live right here on Earth..." Wheaton wrote on his blog Wednesday, describing his life-long interest in space exploration. "As soon as it gets dark here, I'm going to walk out into my backyard, look up into the sky, just a little above Sirius, and know that, even though I can't see it with my naked eye, it's out there, and it's named after me."
"Today, I found out that I kind of get to be in space and live right here on Earth..." Wheaton wrote on his blog Wednesday, describing his life-long interest in space exploration. "As soon as it gets dark here, I'm going to walk out into my backyard, look up into the sky, just a little above Sirius, and know that, even though I can't see it with my naked eye, it's out there, and it's named after me."
to see Sheldon's reaction!
The boy?
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
But when are they going to name an asteroid after CleverNickName?
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Huh, I'd expect the asteroid to be called "Wheaton", like they did with asteroids "Takei", "Nichols", "Roddenberry", but instead they went with "Wilwheaton". I guess it's not bad, just a bit strange ;)
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Now we can tell an asteroid to shut up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Unless Will hears about it and gets triggered. https://www.reddit.com/r/Dayst...
Then he'll block you. https://twitter.com/wilw/statu...
NASA is saving a certain name for the best, classiest asteroid. At least I think they said "asteroid".
You are welcome on my lawn.
The very first sentence in the summary, "now carries a new name that honors actor Will Wheaton", misspells the name in the title directly above it. How hard is that one to catch?
Everything that happens in space isn't done by NASA.
NASA doesn't name asteroids, the IAU (International Astronomical Union) does. The IAU Minor Planet Center documents the names in a monthly list.
Don't tell the POTUS...otherwise he'll adopt a new naming scheme for them, involving his name.
There isn't an asteroid big enough to bear his ego.
Sheldon is going to be so jealous!
doesn't even have an asteroid yet.
This will be great for NASA's Space Flight program! Trump will insist that big-ass "TRUMP" logo signs be placed on all of his asteroids, so he will fund NASA to build a big-ass fleet of spaceships to do the hauling!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Mr Worf, fire at Will !!
Then the annoying little sprog dies in a hail of phaser blasts
Democrats screwed up. Cry about them.
would be better
Didn't Wheaton leave Star Trek because he didn't like the work and thought it was holding back his career? I have to admit he has made a pretty good go of his career after leaving the show (though I think he had some significant difficulties early on) but if you were naming asteroids based on Star Trek Actors I would think that there would be quite a few more who are deserving of it before you got to Wheaton (Dorn, Brooks, Auberjonois, Meaney, Visitor, etc).
Don't tell the POTUS that a government agency names the asteroids, otherwise he'll adopt a new naming scheme for them, involving his name.
Ever bother to count how many time Obama would refer to himself in his speeches? He did it something like 75 times in his last speech. No shit - 75 times. In a 50-minute speech. That's more times than you hear the word "Who" in "The Grinch Who Stole The Recovery, err, Christmas".
Do you know how many times Trump referred to himself in his inaugural address? ZERO.
What's that about Presidential ego?
Scraping the bottom of the barrel if they named something after him. Other than the Star Trek Next Generation, WHAT has he done? NOTHING.
Didn't he fling a Federation ship into an asteroid, utterly destroying it? I mean, it's a bit rich naming an asteroid after such a vandal, no?
(No wait, god damn it, that was a stellar core fragment. The depressing part is I actually remembered that. And yes I know it was necessary to buy Data enough time, blah blah blah.)
Let's inflate the egos of more sub-par "actors" that have long since passed from relevance.
BeauHD. Worst editor since kdawson.
Pathetic. Naming asteroids after a fake person.
When will we see asteroid Barclay?
And everyone knows what you mean when you post "F--king" anyway. That's just a candy-ass way of showing that in the end you just don't have the courage of your convictions.
FUCKING
See. It's not that hard.
Don't confuse the SJWs with facts. Their little brains will explode.
Actors are the most revered figures of modern civilization. Their job is to...uh, yeah, read things others have written.
I'm no SJW. In fact, I hate them as much as you do. Still, its fun to make fun of Trump.
You do realize he doesnt write his speeches. NONE of them do.
So many more deserving people to name asteroids out that have contributed to science.
-- Slashdot, making the Left look conservative since 1997.
If I had my way every rocket that NASA launched would look like something off NASCAR. Every spot on every rocket that wasn't mission critical would be up for sponsorship. Oh the irony of watching a big ass rocket with viagra down the side rising into the Florida sky one morning.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
Actually Trump did write his own Inauguration speech. In the early days of his campaign he wrote most of them too. Later on he did use a speech writer from what I understand.
Now I just wish he would hire a tweeter writer.
I read at +2. If your post doesn't reach that level I will not see or respond to it.
See my subject: I recall that Will Wheaton used to be a forums member/poster on /. ... correct?
APK
P.S.=> Hope I'm not wrong... apk
At least now we know whIch asteroid will end up crashing into earth and ending humanity.
For younger people hes the evil guy in the series "dark matter".
this has been proven false, you took a sample of ONE speech... a farewell speech, where he expresses HIS gratitude and HIS thanks... compared to an inauguration speech where it's about the country. Obama's First inauguration speech had 2 I's, his second had 3, Trump's had 3... Trump refered to himself 3 Times in his speech... not ZERO... you are as bad as trump with the false memories. Trump says I didn't say this, they show the tweet or clip where he did, oh well, I didn't mean it... They were also two different kinds of speeches...
as for Ego? Let's talk mr small hands' penthouse with gold plated toilets, and see who has an ego... his head is so big he can't comprehend anything beyond him. he's declared himself the richest man in the world with ZERO stats to back that up, Trump is an ego, not a person. any humanity he had has long since left his body. he became a joke and a catchphrase during the apprentice,
Quit defending him like you're being abused personally. He's NOT YOU!!!! yes you voted for him. GOOD FOR YOU... you want a cookie? it'll be the HUGEST cookie you ever seen.
To not Question your leaders is EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID HE WAS AGAINST!!! His platform was to "Drain the swamp" get the non-accountable politicians out of Washington. What does he do the INSTANT he gets into power? BECOMES INACCOUNTABLE, throws temper tantrums because someone dares to say something negative about him. Refuses to accept criticism in the highest office in the country. If that doesn't show that he's not accountable I don't know what is. Accountablility means that you take criticism to heart, own up to your mistakes, take advice, and generally listen to what people actually want, NOT what you tell them they want. The man is trying to be a dictator in a republic. I can only be thankful that there are checks and balances in place to prevent him from becoming a dictator. Heck he's starting to sound like Kim Jong-il with his revisionist history.
He used to post here, not sure if he still does or not. was big into the EFF... heck he even did some of those celebrity game shows where he donated his winnings to the EFF..
In a 40-minute speech given in 2014 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdR8uILg7TQ), in which he promised to use unilateral, executive action, the President referred to himself - “I,” “me,” and “my” - 199 times, CNS News reports. That's once every 12 seconds.
LMGTFY
Jeez, Obama referred to himself 40-something times in a speech celebrating the Cubs winning the World Series:
Obama refers to himself 40 times during Cubs visit to White House
It may have been the Chicago Cubs’ day at the White House, but that didn’t stop President Obama from repeatedly talking about himself while honoring them.
In what he called his final ceremony at the White House, Obama delivered roughly 22 minutes of remarks about the Cubs’ World Series win, and in the process, managed to refer to himself 40 times.
Trump already has a Moth named after him called "Neopalpa donaldtrumpi". It has yellow-white "scales" on top of it's head which prompted the naming. =)
he's not you
How do you KNOW ?
It COULD be him. He wastes time screwing around on Shitter, why wouldn't he also read stories on slashdot and argue with people who point out how full of shit he and all the minor liars orbiting his massive ego are?
We already have the moth named 'Neopalpa donaldtrumpi'
you can't make this stuff up
Be glad he's POTUS then. Making fun of Hillary Clinton would have put you on a kill list.
Yes, but Trump had more "alternative facts", so he wins bigly on that one. Why bother being right when you can be alt-right?
Don't tell the POTUS...otherwise he'll adopt a new naming scheme for them, involving his name.
There isn't an asteroid big enough to bear his ego.
You are confusing with Shatner there.
lol, emo-nazis get upset about anyone talking about civil rights.
We just elected a second Republican actor as President. Ironically they are the party which most often complains about Hollywood.
As a subscriber of alt.wesley.crusher.die.die.die it's nice to know there is now an asteroid with his name on it.
said asteroid crashes into the Earth killing millions - and then your name becomes a curse word for a few centuries.
not very likely, but enjoy it while you can because you just never know when something might knock a randomspace rock from its orbit...
Surprisingly not mentioned in the summary above, the name of the asteroid is "391257 Wilwheaton".
See http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.c... for more details on the asteroid itself.
You do realize that he existed before "The Apprentice", right?
Is the asteroid as annoying as his character was? Does it endanger us and then somehow save us?
An irritating asteroid,
No, what bothers people about SJWs isn't that they call for equal rights, but that they call for special rights for some, and silencing (less rights) for others.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Maybe he posts as APK! That would explain so much.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
See my subject & link exchange anyone can verify it in you blowhard "ne'er-do-well" lying pussy that you are https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10141067&threshold=-1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=53720575/
* Still trying to cause trouble pussy? Ok - tell me where you live + your REAL name (fake name troll online punk that you are) & I'll verify it against tax + real estate databases & then we can SETTLE it, face-to-face you lying little punk.
(Run, bitch - run... lol!)
Too bad I cut you up here https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10141067&cid=53725817/ trying to damage my GOOD reputation in the field of computing (which you'll NEVER have as you are retarded & limited) there & also here WHERE YOU CAN'T BACKUP YOUR LIES AGAIN punk https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10141067&cid=53725923/
See, everyone KNOWS a FAKE NAME using PUNK like you online doesn't care - you'll just create another FAKE NAME after you have to hide in shame here pussy... how can SWINE like you live with themselves? I know your woman couldn't & TOOK OFF on your disgusting ass - no woman RESPECTS punks like you is why!
Best part is - Google's SHOWING your fuckups vs. me & your antics - you did it to yourself + I get to not only defend myself vs. your crap but EXPOSE you as a loser too, lol... I love it.
Keep it up? This keeps happening. It's THAT simple. The beatings WILL continue @ your expense, not mine.
APK
P.S.=> You're damaged GOODS you defective mental assburger retard (& you KNOW it - now, everyone else can too per that link above where you impersonated President Trump https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10141067&cid=53730429/ (a good man, unlike you, "not man" reprehensible disgrace that you are))... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Prove your quoted words above Coren22: Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/windows/25596-how-secure-windows-2000-xp-server-2003-vista-fully-per-cis-tool-scoring-3.html?s=0ae07d5b5389e06fd6bcfd05bc2d2cc0/
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
APK
P.S.=> Whose mistake is that Coren22? YOURS, lol (again) w/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10141067&cid=53725817/ idiot (I've got TONS more too)... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Prove your quoted words above Coren22: Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/windows/25596-how-secure-windows-2000-xp-server-2003-vista-fully-per-cis-tool-scoring-3.html?s=0ae07d5b5389e06fd6bcfd05bc2d2cc0/
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
APK
P.S.=> Whose mistake is that Coren22? YOURS, lol (again) w/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10141067&cid=53725817/ idiot (I've got TONS more too)... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Prove your quoted words above Coren22: Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/windows/25596-how-secure-windows-2000-xp-server-2003-vista-fully-per-cis-tool-scoring-3.html?s=0ae07d5b5389e06fd6bcfd05bc2d2cc0/
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
APK
P.S.=> Whose mistake is that Coren22? YOURS, lol (again) w/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10141067&cid=53725817/ idiot (I've got TONS more too)... apk
"Apk doesn't think DNS servers are worth running & believes Microsoft Active Directory can run w/out DNS." - by Coren22 (1625475) on Tuesday October 27, 2015
Prove your quoted words above Coren22: Where'd I say it? Show us. I say AD needs internal DNS far back as 2007 http://forums.tweaktown.com/windows/25596-how-secure-windows-2000-xp-server-2003-vista-fully-per-cis-tool-scoring-3.html?s=0ae07d5b5389e06fd6bcfd05bc2d2cc0/
See "To warn users who have ActiveDirectory/AD LAN-WAN setups to NOT use external DNS servers" there on OpenDNS free (I use it) + AD in my security guide.
* Your "assburgers" mentally damaged brain is IMAGINING things (you can't get over it you lied & fucked up) - thanks for proving it by evasion, lol!
APK
P.S.=> Whose mistake is that Coren22? YOURS, lol (again) w/ https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10141067&cid=53725817/ idiot (I've got TONS more too)... apk