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> Buster the Dummy already works for a great show you may have heard of called MythBusters. Our dummy prefers to remain anonymous for the time being. I'd love
by jonlucc 11y ago
> Buster the Dummy already works for a great show you may have heard of called MythBusters. Our dummy prefers to remain anonymous for the time being.
I'd love to know what the SpaceX test dummy's name is, but for now I'm going to assume it's Edison.
- ISL 11y agoMy prior has a prominence near "Elon".
- demallien 11y agoI'm betting on Chuck (as in Yaeger)
- eps 11y agoUnlike MythBusters, SpaceX is likely to have more than one dummy and, unlike Nasa^H^H^H^HESA they tend not to make cutesy circus out of their projects, e.g. avoid things like "Oh, hai, Twitter, I'm the Rosetta probe! Yuppie!" So I suspect dummies will remain anonymous.
- karlshea 11y agoI don't think you're the target demo for the cutesy circus events. Unlike SpaceX, NASA needs all the public exposure and goodwill it can get, which is what the Twitter accounts are for. There are plenty of data and science-heavy websites for the non-casual user.
- eps 11y agoThat's exactly my point. SpaceX doesn't need to name the dummies, nor judging by their history they would want to.
- lotsofmangos 11y agoJust Read The Instructions Of Course I Still Love You
- eps 11y agoFair enough. I concede the defeat.
- lotsofmangos 11y agoOmnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori.
- morbius 11y agoThat's a quite myopic view of both NASA and SpaceX. The cutesy circus is pretty much a necessary condition of scientific popularisation-- NASA's social media experiments have been incredibly successful ways of getting the public to engage in space travel and science in a way that wasn't ever prevalent before. It's trite, but also mandatory. I wouldn't be surprised if SpaceX didn't take some things tongue-in-cheek too; a war against humour is one nobody wants to fight. Except Boeing executives.
- lotsofmangos 11y agoThe trouble with wars against humour, is they tend to be really funny.
- wazoox 11y agoBTW, the cute Rosetta was from ESA PR, not NASA.
- eps 11y ago...indeed it was/is and I knew that. Thanks.
- lotsofmangos 11y agoDid you know the Dragon capsule was named after the song "Puff The Magic Dragon"? edit - and a wheel of Le Brouère cheese was on the first Dragon flight in honour of the Monty Python Cheese Shop sketch.
- codeulike 11y agoSpaceX named their recovery sea vessels 'Just Read The Instructions' and 'Of Course I Still Love You', after the Iain M Banks sci-fi Culture ships.
- madaxe_again 11y agoI wonder which of their vessels will win GCU Grey Area for its name.
- lotsofmangos 11y agoIf Elon launches a space vessel named 'Grey Area', I either want to be on it, or in a bunker.
- ceejayoz 11y ago> unlike Nasa^H^H^H^HESA they tend not to make cutesy circus out of their projects They dress the dummy up like a cowboy. http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2012/12/A-2IXbMCEAAwU3H-660x880.jpg http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/2012/12/A-2IXbMCEA...
- ewindisch 11y agoCapt. "Ace" Owens?
- alex_duf 11y agoIt would be bad communication to give it a name if the vessel explode.
- Lionleaf 11y agoI'm assuming it's Jebediah Kerman
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI agree, I totally expect that dummy to be named Jeb.