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Message 189777 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 12:20:10 UTC - in response to Message 189774.  

Delays for the final journey

Plans to send the remains of late Star Trek actor James Doohan into space have been delayed pending further engine tests.....


Poor Scotty his ashes are turning red with embarassment..
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Message 189817 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 15:37:35 UTC - in response to Message 189774.  

Delays for the final journey

Plans to send the remains of late Star Trek actor James Doohan into space have been delayed pending further engine tests.....


sounds like they really need the engineer they're trying to shoot into space.

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Message 189838 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 16:58:48 UTC

At least they have engineers that go to work.
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Message 189880 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 20:10:16 UTC

... are expected to orbit Earth for up to 200 years before eventually burning up when they re-enter the atmosphere.


Isn't that a little irresponsible to be adding more space junk into orbit that could collide with Satellites, the ISS etc?


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Message 189932 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 22:51:41 UTC - in response to Message 189880.  
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... are expected to orbit Earth for up to 200 years before eventually burning up when they re-enter the atmosphere.


Isn't that a little irresponsible to be adding more space junk into orbit that could collide with Satellites, the ISS etc?



At least they could do, is buy a ticket to send me somewhere out in space. Any direction would be nice, as long as I don't come back to this ball of rock.

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Message 189935 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 23:04:30 UTC - in response to Message 189932.  


At least they could do, is buy a ticket to send me somewhere out in space. Any direction would be nice, as long as I don't come back to this ball of rock.


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Message 189963 - Posted: 18 Nov 2005, 0:47:37 UTC - in response to Message 189935.  

Bad day huh?



Nope! I was thinking along the lines of been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

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