Remains of James Doohan Lost in New Mexico

caffiend666 writes "According to a Space.com news article the cremated remains of 200 people were lost in the mountains after their trip to space. 'The search for the UP Aerospace payload of experiments and the cremated remains of some 200 people — including "Scotty" of Star Trek fame, as well as pioneeering NASA Mercury astronaut, Gordon Cooper — continues within rugged New Mexico mountain landscape.' Is it just me, or does it seem appropriate that they lost the landing party? Here's to a safe recovery!"

No problem.

[ScrewMaster]

Spock will figure out the only logical place it could be.

Poor Gordo Cooper...

[Blackbrain]

As Gordo would have said: "Looks like someone screwed the pooch on this one".

Clever...

[DoofusOfDeath]

He *knew* the Nexus was going to go through that exact point.

Obvious

[Anonymous Coward]

He was always wearing a red shirt. It was inevitable that he would be lost.

clear throat, cue theremin

[circletimessquare]

Rural New Mexico, the final frontier. These are the remains of James Doohan. Its five-minute mission: to explore cactus and scrub mesas; to not burn up and burst its canister; to boldly go where no cremated remains have gone before.

oooooo waaaahhh, wah wah wah wah wah....

Sent into space?

[Anonymous Coward]

Man, if I was, like, "Send my ashes into space when I die" and they were like, "OK, we can send you in a suborbital trajectory", I'd be all like, "Fuck that bitches, I said SPACE".

Re:Obvious

[Infoport]

no, it is only the new crewmen in red shirts who are doomed. If you have a nickname, you are pretty much safe.

and being Ensign something, well you might as well leave your good boots at home for someone else.

Not again,

[Anonymous Coward]

This is the second time he's put himself into a transporter loop waiting for rescue.
Clevernickname better get off his blog and go get him.

Damn it Jim!

[nihilistcanada]

I am a doctor not an orbital scientist!

Re:Raise your hands

[BlargIAmDead]

I think the point was to see how the remains of several cremated people reacted to zero g conditions. We now now that when subjected to these certain conditions they gain enough intelligence to outsmart NASA :)

Re:what

[jddj]

Or just put a tractor beam on it on the way down.

His Last Words

[Hoi Polloi]

"Yah c'nt bury me, yoo got na ashes!"

Searching in the wrong place...

[ChangeOnInstall]

Has anyone checked ebay yet?

Re:clear throat, cue theremin

[Anonymous Coward]

oooooo waaaahhh, wah wah wah wah wah
oooooo waaaahhh, wah wah wah wah waaaaahhh (ooo wah wah wah ooo waah waah)
oooooo, wah wah wah wah wah wah, oooo, waaaaah waaaaah
ooo wah wah wah wah waaaaaaaaaaaah

Re:Raise your hands

[Ignis Flatus]

What the hell was the effin point of this whole thing?

to make money, of course. it was a private enterprise.

Breaking news...

[fireman sam]

The ship has been found, but unfortunately everyone on board have been confirmed dead. :(

Obligatory Bones Quote:

[rts008]

He's dead, Jim!

Re:Raise your hands

[prelelat]

to make money, of course. it was a private enterprise.

I can't tell if that was a pun or not.

Either way good call.

No big surprise

[Waffle Iron]

The capsule probably just encountered a rift in spacetime and ended up landing somewhere like ancient Rome or 1920s Chicago. As I understand it, this kind of thing happens all the time to space vehicles. They probably shouldn't waste too much effort looking for it in the present.

They'll be found eventually..

[sprior]

On Ebay...

Re:Obvious

[solitas]

http://echosphere.net/star_trek_insp/insp_expendab ility.jpg [echosphere.net]

Re:No problem.

[srmalloy]

I guess the engines really couldn't take it...

she's breaking up!!

[einnar2000]

After all those years of saying things like "she's breaking up cap'n, she can't take much more of this", it was bound to eventually happen. The engineer had to pass away before his ship even had a chance of malfunctioning like this, after all. ;)

Re:clear throat, cue theremin

[Anonymous Coward]

You left out the whooshing...

He's not really dead

[Rix]

He just stored himself in the transporter buffer.

Looks like he's...

[ICantHearYourMusicAn]

...gone where no man has gone before. (But they're trying to fix that too)

Re:Raise your hands

[Anonymous Coward]

I had this in mind when I chose to bury two of my dogs in the backyard.

How did you get them to stay there? Mine always dig themselves out.

Re:what

[Anonymous Coward]

It sounds like this landing did what they wanted it to other than the fact they lost the thing- which makes me wonder why they didn't think of using a tracking beacon

You misspelled tractor beam.

Re:No problem.

[novus ordo]

Keith Richards' nose?

Think of the Environment!!

[dazlari]

That's just crazy. Here I was thinking he would be polluting space, crashing in to the ISS in 30years or so.

Why o' why didn't they just fire him into the side of a nearby Mountain - it'd have saved on the Rocket fuel and thereby made a smaller environmental ... impact. :o/

Re:No problem.

[lordmatthias215]

If I had to be lost somewhere, it'd be the land of Latinas and tequila.

Sounds a whole heck of a lot like the New Mexico I know...

Re:Raise your hands

[Anonymous Coward]

Firmly clutching the remote in one hand, right? :)

Re:Raise your hands

[suv4x4]

That kinda sucks for anyone years in the future who may want to study the body to see how you lived and what caused your death.

We're in the 21-st century. He doesn't need to study your body to find how you lived, he just needs to Google your name.

Re:No problem.

[McFadden]

And in that vein...

I wouldn't worry about looking for Doohan. Just wait a few weeks and he'll show up on eBay.

That's not the real reason

[Rix]

It's to keep them in the ground when the zombie apocalypse comes.

Re:Wow, they weren't retarded.

[NeoManyon]

Next week (no hurry I suppose), the manufacturers of the tracking device are bringing more sensitive equipment and more experienced searchers to search for it.

Yes it is only the experienced searcher that can walk around and properly say "Nope, not here..."

Re:Possibly

[ArsenneLupin]

In a few days, they'll make headlines by having found the ashes.

... if the Krikkit robots don't beat them to the punch, that is.

Re:Raise your hands

[name*censored*]

>>Just had a weird flashback of playing online games and seeing corpses dissolve into thin air. How do they do it.... ;)

Ah, nuts to THAT! Iwant to know how they manage to RESPAWN.

Re:Someone failed grade 5 math

[fistynuts]

Taking measurements at two points to find something is surely why they call it triangulation.

Re:Someone failed grade 5 math

[Floritard]

Ironic that the remains of the transporter chief lie in an area so inaccessible. A solid advocate for beam technology even from beyond the grave!