Comments on: Rename a NASA satellite http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:58:19 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jim Harmon http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/comment-page-2/#comment-159980 Jim Harmon Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:03:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/#comment-159980 COLBERT. There is no other choice. COLBERT. There is no other choice.

]]> By: Will http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/comment-page-2/#comment-69848 Will Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:57:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/#comment-69848 The Bible!!??? LOL!!! That's right up there with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. But you go on and keep kidding yourselves if that's what makes you sleep at night.... The Bible!!??? LOL!!! That’s right up there with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. But you go on and keep kidding yourselves if that’s what makes you sleep at night….

]]> By: Will http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/comment-page-2/#comment-69847 Will Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:31:18 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/#comment-69847 We already have telescopes - they're nothing new. But this one is basically a new set of "eyes" for us. So what about:? 'IRIS' Intergalactic Radiation Infrared Satellite We already have telescopes – they’re nothing new. But this one is basically a new set of “eyes” for us. So what about:?

‘IRIS’

Intergalactic
Radiation
Infrared
Satellite

]]> By: Mike Langford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/comment-page-2/#comment-69846 Mike Langford Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:01:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/#comment-69846 I have two suggestions for the re-naming of GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope: Quixote -- because GLAST, much like Don Quixote, will boldly live each day as a quest for seemingly impossible visions. - or - The Sir Arthur C. Clarke Observatory -- or The Clarke Telescope -- to honor Clarke, perhaps the greatest science-fiction writer of our time, who warned of the danger to human survival from gamma-ray bursts. In a strange coincidence, the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed -- also the most intrinsically bright object ever seen and the furthest object ever observable with the unaided eye -- was detected by the Swift satellite just hours after Clarke's passing on March 18. See the complete NASA story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/mar/HQ_08086_Swift_Detects_GRB.html I have two suggestions for the re-naming of GLAST, the Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope:

Quixote — because GLAST, much like Don Quixote, will boldly live each day as a quest for seemingly impossible visions.

- or -

The Sir Arthur C. Clarke Observatory — or The Clarke Telescope — to honor Clarke, perhaps the greatest science-fiction writer of our time, who warned of the danger to human survival from gamma-ray bursts. In a strange coincidence, the brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed — also the most intrinsically bright object ever seen and the furthest object ever observable with the unaided eye — was detected by the Swift satellite just hours after Clarke’s passing on March 18.
See the complete NASA story: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/mar/HQ_08086_Swift_Detects_GRB.html

]]> By: MaribuS http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/comment-page-2/#comment-69845 MaribuS Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:40:17 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/#comment-69845 Hot Universe Looking Kit = HULK. Hot Universe Looking Kit = HULK.

]]> By: Paul Parkinson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/comment-page-2/#comment-69844 Paul Parkinson Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:00:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/#comment-69844 I second SAGAN. If that doesn't cut it, how about SCHRODINGER? I second SAGAN.

If that doesn’t cut it, how about SCHRODINGER?

]]> By: ABR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/comment-page-2/#comment-69843 ABR Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:04:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/10/rename-a-nasa-satellite/#comment-69843 “DOC Bruce Banner,/BELTED by gamma rays,/TURNS into the Hulk…” Naaa, he was BELTED because of the decency laws! “DOC Bruce Banner,/BELTED by gamma rays,/TURNS into the Hulk…”

Naaa, he was BELTED because of the decency laws!

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