Comments on: In Search Of: Spock’s Planet & Scotty’s Ashes

By: spsblue

spsblue — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:52:38 +0000

“I has noticed this odd-sounding tendency as well… ”

Queen’s English is the older version! So therefore it doesn’t sound odd at all.

It sounds odd that you have changed it our language so much in only a few hundred years.

By: planettom

planettom — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:37:17 +0000

After hearing a lot of vague references to Doohan’s ashes going into space, I was surprised that it was a suborbital flight.

Some of astronaut Gordon Cooper’s ashes were also on this flight. Which makes me wonder why; he’s already orbited the Earth.

When the ashes of Roddenberry and Timothy Leary were launched, they orbited for six years or so before burning up in the atmosphere.

But the best space ashes award goes to astronomer Eugene Shoemaker; his ashes hit the Moon at 3,800 miles per hour when the Lunar Prospector was purposely crashed in 1999.

However, some of astronomer Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes are aboard the New Horizons probe which did a gravity-assist slingshot around Jupiter in February and will go past Pluto in 2015 and then into interstellar space, so will presumably be the first human remains to leave the solar system.

It’s pretty cool to get your ashes hauled… into space.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 12 May 2007 20:23:21 +0000

Did anyone actually read the NASA story — the article itself strongly ties into the Star Trek mythology, showing a picture of Spock, and mentioning Roddenberry’s endorsement of 40 Eridani as Vulcan’s star. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I love that I’m living at a time in history when we can actually search for rocky, Earth-like planets around nearby stars. Maybe Trek and other SF has inured us to the wonder of it all, but I find it incredible that we now know there are definitely strange new worlds out there to explore. Very cool.

Scott B. out.

By: Alex Rosenzweig

Alex Rosenzweig — Sat, 12 May 2007 14:20:16 +0000

Just as a side-note, the idea that Vulcan orbits 40 Eridani is now pretty close to canonical. In the 4th Season ENT episode “Home”, we’re told that Vulcan is 16 light-years from Earth. Coincidence? I doubt it. ;)

By: Sean4000

Sean4000 — Sat, 12 May 2007 05:13:15 +0000

What the hell was i thinking….I need a vacation to regenerate my brain……..God I need rest.

By: mrregular

mrregular — Sat, 12 May 2007 04:32:30 +0000

That’s good to hear that NASA is looking for Earth-like planets. The next step, after finding them, will be to find a way to get there.
Space news and the exploration of space always renews my faith in humanity.
As to Jimmy Doohan’s ashes, I pray that they are located ASAP and NOT desecrated, i.e. sold on Ebay.

By: oof

oof — Sat, 12 May 2007 03:01:40 +0000

#4 Yes, the jungles of SW Arizona….

By: Stanky McFibberich

Stanky McFibberich — Sat, 12 May 2007 01:33:41 +0000

6. Spirit

I has noticed this odd-sounding tendency as well…

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 12 May 2007 01:06:39 +0000

#6 The British speak the Queen’s English and therefore use collective nouns as plural in construction, while Americans tend to use collective nouns as singular in constructions. Don’t know about Ozzies, et. al.

By: TK

TK — Fri, 11 May 2007 23:18:31 +0000

Love this article! both stories got my imagination going!