NASA Contest To Name ISS Module 197
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.'"
Battletoad? (Score:5, Funny)
I know we aren't meant to complain about missing poll options; but battletoad anyone?!
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I wrote in Battletoad, but I was also quite relieved to see that Serenity was winning.
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There's no hope, the power of Xenu is too great!
Top 10 Suggestions (from site)
SYNERGY
VISION
TRANQUILITY
VISTA
HORIZON
HOPE
ETERNITY
PEACE
XENU
ENTERPRISE
Re:Battletoad? (Score:5, Funny)
VISTA... You're trying to get life support.. cancel or allow?
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Personally I think Vertigo is sufficiently twisted.
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Thunderdome.
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distributed versus all on one module (Score:2, Insightful)
So a single hit could wipe all all life support (as we know it.)
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I was wondering that myself. Of all the systems that could benefit from being distributed, that would seem to be the one. If say, one of the central modules develops a leak (micro meteor etc) and has to be sealed quickly, splitting the station in half air-wise, would positively suck to be on the wrong side of the door from 100% of the life support systems...
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A hit big enough to wipe out the life support - is a hit big enough that if it were anywhere else in the station, they'd be dead anyhow.
Normally, I wouldn't bother but... (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
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Except that it was chosen by a poll on the internet. Then anyone with a clue about the internet will know -why- it was chosen.
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anyone with a clue about the internet will know -why- it was chosen.
For the same reason that Hank the Angry Dwarf [wikipedia.org] won the People magazine poll for most Beautiful Person of the Year?
Re:Normally, I wouldn't bother but... (Score:4, Insightful)
I almost feel like whoever at NASA picked the poll options must have been a Firefly fan. Of the four choices, "Serenity" is really the only one that goes well with the existing two names, even to a normal person who's never heard of Firefly.
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even to a normal person who's never heard of Firefly
Normal people didn't watch firefly? Then what am... Nevermind.
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If they do pick Serenity, would the possible next one be Tranquility?
Or is that already in use, and I'm just ignorant?
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Ya, that one was taken in 1969 [wikipedia.org]. It's a base, actually, (on the edge of a sea by the same name), located at 004115N, 232600W [google.com]
But, duplicate or recycled names aren't completely unheard of. One in particular [wikipedia.org] comes to mind as being recycled many times over.
Battletoad (Score:3, Funny)
Vista?? (Score:5, Funny)
Vista is in the top 10 suggestions... draw what conclusions you will from that...
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OMG, Vista? That's really auspicious, that is!
Goons (Score:3, Informative)
Missing Poll Options... (Score:5, Insightful)
Starbug ftw.
CowboyNeal (Score:5, Funny)
My vote is... (Score:4, Funny)
Let's have a grass roots campaign (Score:5, Funny)
And let's see if they will name it "Cuntflaps".
NASA Bob (Score:3, Funny)
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...
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Maybe draw a pair of glasses and a smile on it with a sharpie...
Pretty sure a Sharpie that can draw in a vacuum is going to cost at least $10.3 million. Much cheaper to just etch it into the metal using a special zero-g screwdriver...
This is soooo easy! (Score:2, Funny)
single point of failure? (Score:2)
Re:single point of failure? (Score:4, Insightful)
Airplane Rule (Score:2)
I think NASA knows how to build a damn good basket. Not that they always DO, b
obvious! (Score:2)
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?
Serenity now... (Score:2)
Name it PowNed (Score:2)
Ten Forward (Score:2)
How about a practical name? (Score:2)
"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.
This should be on a plaque on the module... (Score:3, Insightful)
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...
ISS Enterprise (Score:2)
Browncoat (Score:4, Funny)
"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.
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Wouldn't that be a brown shirt?
Reading about Roehm in the Wikipedia entry, I found that he was homosexual
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Röhm [wikipedia.org]
(Funny, they never told us that in school), and that despite that he lead such a conservative organization, I have to say he had balls.
Ultimately the SA was a despicable organization that mainly beat up Nazi party opponents. Firefly fans can't possibly be that bad.
Stupid names (Score:2)
Might I suggest "Downbelow"?
Let's call it "Node 3" (Score:2)
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The Phoenix mission used names like Neverland, Wicked Witch, Snow White, and Peter Pan.
Devon
I'm suprised "Freeside" and "Villa Straylight"... (Score:3, Interesting)
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.
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"Too Little Gravitas to Measure"?
Serenity logo (Score:3, Interesting)
Got It (Score:2)
aka PISS AWAY $
I still like MIR: "global" and "peace" (Score:2)
Let's see (Score:2)
What about "Number 3". That's a good name.
Serenity: because of the serene, sublime view (Score:2)
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 fo
Serenity has 86% of the votes (Score:2)
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I'm not surprised at all [wikipedia.org].
Eric (Score:2)
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Oh geez. Your just going to make em circle the spacewagons.
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Firefly webisodes!? Where?
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I have a hard time calling those webisodes, but I guess they fit. I thought there was something new.
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Re:Serenity Now! (Score:4, Funny)
They are going to name their life support after an unreliable piece of go-se?
Re:Serenity Now! (Score:4, Insightful)
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.
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I'd take the small ship with the hooker on it.
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All things considered Firefly is probably the safest ship in its universe
You really don't know Joss Whedon very well do you? He'd blow it up if it would make a good way to prevent two of his characters from having more than a week or so of happiness together.
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They merely need to send up Kaylee to cherish it and then it'll work fine... as long as they spend month on spare parts.
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In all probability, that unreliable piece of go-se is safer than our orbiting tin can. Probably cheaper too. With artificial gravity.
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"Life Support"? (Score:2)
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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.
Unique name... (Score:2)
a name no one could possibly mistake for the Lido Deck on a cruise ship.
Chuck Norris?
Necessity FTW (Score:2)
As much as serenity is a popular favorite, Necessity is perhaps the best name mentioned so far. *golf clap*
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I see your lack of imagination and raise you some other suggestions:
Space Nipple?
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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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Not by anyone with a remote clue what they are talking about.
Re:Slashdotted Already (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, Nasa /.'ed
We're interrogating Mr. Malda now.
Thanks,
No Such Agency.
Re:Slashdotted Already (Score:4, Funny)
That's ok, CmdrTaco has always wanted to meet James Earl Jones and blackmail a Winnebago out of him ;)
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Oh this is ridiculous!
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Re:My Votes ... ? (Score:5, Funny)
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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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...
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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.
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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.
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Re:Strangely, my name isn't even in the top ten. (Score:5, Funny)
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What did River do? I'd say she was less a crew member than Inara.
Mal - Cap'n
Jayne, Zoe - Muscle
Wash - Pilot
Kaylee - Mechanic
Shepard - Chaplain
Simon - Doctor
Inara - Passenger/Tenant
River - Passenger
You really can't get 8. It's 7 or 9 considering the others pitched in when it hit the fan.
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River saved their asses on at least two occassions. She played a critical role securing the ship during the mission to bring Mal and Wash back from their torture sessions and she played "I am Serenity" during the episode when the bounty hunter captured the entire crew so he could turn River over to the authorities for a cash prize.
Note how I gave them all credit for pitching in when it hit the fan.
Also, she was the main protagonist during the movie.
Firefly movie never happened. Just a lousy parody only slightly too subtle to call "River the Reaver slayer"
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By that count, Book wasn't crew either. He was a paying passenger.
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He's their preacher. Crew as much as anything.
There was that episode "Shindig". Book, Jayne and Simon are passing the time playing cards using "chores" on the ship as chips. Book wins a hand and comments on it being, "a nice pile of things I won't have to do." Since you don't generally make the paying customers work, to me, that kinda implied that Book was now paying his way by doing jobs on the ship as any crew member.
Even River turned out to be useful in a ninja ass-kicking sort of capacity. Dunno if
John (Score:2)
Joint
Organic
reHabilitation
Node
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But the fifth one stayed up. And that's what you'll be gettin', lad, the strongest space station in all of space.
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No no no. If it were grey 17, no one would be able to find it! It's missing!