[Twotone]

Towards the bottom of the article, Dr. Fulks mentions an opportunity regarding the Parker Solar Probe soon to be launched. If you want your name to go up in space, you have until April 27th to add it to the list. The website is here...

http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/

[mylife]

James Tiberius Kirk would bend over anything in the universe.

[MrEdd]

Is there any way we can put Lindsay Graham and Susanne Colins on it?

[deadrock]

Not another Stormy Daniels post.

[dirtymac]

Darn! I thought we were going to be discussing some guy that wanted to do Ellen DeGeneres.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Those who “peer-reviewed” the scientific paper he submitted to the Astrophysical Journal rejected it.
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You mean the scientific consensus of the day was wrong? I thought it could never be wrong....

[Sybeck1]

https://www.startrektour.com

The Captain himself appearing May 4th!

[mylife]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuyV76SG6qg

[yarddog]

I really liked Star Trek when it first came on. Still do like it but viewing it recently I was surprised how many weak episodes there are.

There are some excellent ones too but I think the main reason it continues to be popular is the characters. All the actors are, or were good.

BTW, they dropped the “man” and replaced it with “one” in the later ripoffs.

[wheresmyusa]

“If you want your name to go up in space, you have until April 27th to add it to the list.”

My son had a good friend who was into astronomy, and we had good conversations about it. Very bright kid. He was killed in a car accident after leaving our house late one night. We put his name on the disc they put on the Mars Maven probe. There was a certificate you could download and print out once submitted, which we gave to his mother. I’m glad they do these type of things.

~W

[Beowulf9]

It happens I was wondering about that ‘bridge’ on the Enterprise, and where it was and stuff...

https://www.techrepublic.com/blog/geekend/idiot-sci-fi-question-why-did-the-starship-enterprise-have-such-a-stupid-bridge/

[Architect of Avalon]

Kirk’s approach to space exploration was to seduce beautiful women on every planet.

[GraceG]

[wally_bert]

I filled out one.

Thank you.

[Vince Ferrer]

But it will have to endure heat and radiation greater than any encountered by the Enterprise. Although hardly traveling at “warp speed,” it will reach almost half a million miles per hour as it swings around the Sun in flybys that get ever deeper into the solar corona. That is where the Sun accelerates the ‘solar wind’ to supersonic speed and embeds intense solar magnetic fields into a giant spiral that sweeps galactic cosmic rays out of the solar system.

This is the maneuver they used to get back to the 1980s to save the whales in Star Trek IV, but the spacecraft is so small, they won't be able to fit.

[IronJack]

To boldly go ...

Split infinitive.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Star Trek - To boldly go where no man has gone before - Music of James Horner.....

[TChad]

Interesting piece. Thanks.

[Vendome]

Fly Me to the Moon
https://youtu.be/5hxibHJOE5E

[mewzilla]

Name in space...

Stella Mudd.

[Hot Tabasco]

I’ve always wondered why the Enterprise never hit any asteroids or planets or stars when it was traveling at warp speed....