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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."
But when are they going to name an asteroid after CleverNickName?
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Scraping the bottom of the barrel if they named something after him. Other than the Star Trek Next Generation, WHAT has he done? NOTHING.
You should not make the mistake of confusing the actor with the character.
Yes the character "Wesley Crusher" was horrible. We all know that. Wil knows that!
It would seem only the star trek writers didn't know that.
Wil Wheaton the actor, and actual real person, has actually done quite a bit more and is in fact quite a technology geek - something you would think Slashdot readers would appreciate.
He's been in the movie Stand by Me, which is a pretty big classic. He's been in Toy Story, also a big financial success.
He was a voice actor in GTA San Andreas, and voice acted in other shows like Family Guy, Teen Titans, Batman, and even The Secret of NIMH.
Just go look at his IMDB page.
He has his own tech blog and online video show, even a D&D show.
He has done many charity runs and is an EFF supporter, and supports various mental health organizations for things like depression and anxiety disorders.
Oh, and his Slashdot UID (129189) is significantly lower than yours (656414), and even my own (in the 172xxx range)
He's a sanctimonious virtue signaling male feminist arse. He talks about his mental illness which would be great but then is all over a movement that declares that men don't have any problems even though white men were 70% of suicides in 2014.