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![]() Member ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 24-November 04 From: Heraklion, GR. Member No.: 112 ![]() |
Probably MSL will end up being called something poetic, like Hope, Prosperity or Peace
![]() As you may have guessed, I'm in the Alex Blackwell camp on this. Would not it be more fun to have named the MERs Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ?? ![]() |
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1281 Joined: 18-December 04 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 124 ![]() |
How about the Dakota-Sioux word for "Great" or "Big":
TONKA! Well, we already had a Lego tie in with MER... and what other metaphor is appropriate for all those engineers playing the the sandbox with their big toys? Besides - (with all due respect to the Phoenix mission) Isn't this a scoop truly worthy of Mars? ![]() ![]() -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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![]() Dublin Correspondent ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 ![]() |
I love it! Tonka is easily the best name suggestion yet.
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![]() Merciless Robot ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Admin Posts: 8784 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 ![]() |
![]() -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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How 'bout obscure sci-fi movie references?
"Armadillo" in honor of that vehicle in the movie Armageddon? Or "Juggernaut" in honor of the clone tanks in Star Wars: Episode III? ![]() -------------------- 2011 JPL Tweetup photos: http://www.rich-parno.com/aa_jpltweetup.html
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![]() The Poet Dude ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 ![]() |
"Armadillo" in honor of that vehicle in the movie Armageddon? And have to listen to Peter Kay singing that ****** song every day?!!?!? ![]() Oh sorry, thought you said "Amarillo"... ![]() -------------------- |
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Gee, if people are starting to put in sci-fi references, here are my tosses into the ring --
Killdozer (Theodore Sturgeon novella, later TV-movie) Bolo (Keith Laumer and others) (Violent allusions, yes, but the images of a Mini-Cooper sized robot rolling around zapping rocks with its ChemCam laser struck me as being pretty fearsome. Good think it can't roll as fast as people can run.) ![]() |
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 ![]() |
Well, heck -- if we're talking about a rolling robot with a death ray that can't roll as fast as people run away from it, might as well go all the way and name the thing "Dalek."
![]() -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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-------------------- Antti Kuosmanen
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2173 Joined: 28-December 04 From: Florida, USA Member No.: 132 ![]() |
I liked Tonka, but if you're looking for something more edgy, but
still with a toy tie in, how about Transfo -- short for transformer -- as MSL will assuredly transform our knowledge about Mars... again! |
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The naming of probes is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter When I tell you a space probe must have three different names. .... ![]() ![]() |
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Gee, if people are starting to put in sci-fi references, here are my tosses into the ring -- Well if we are considering fictional vehicles, there's always "Lovebug" or "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" or my favorites "Hannibal 8" and "The Leslie Special." -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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![]() Senior Member ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 ![]() |
Ah, but if you were to name MSL the Hannibal 8, after it went about 90 meters the engine would fall out!
"Push the button, Max!" -the other Doug p.s. -- if MSL finds Natalie Wood wearing a merry widow, though, just *think* what that could do for Mars exploration funding! -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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OGRE?!?!? Push the button, Max?!?!?!" MSL Limericks?
God help me but I love this board - chatter and all! -------------------- Lyford Rome
"Zis is not nuts, zis is super-nuts!" Mathematician Richard Courant on viewing an Orion test |
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