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Unlike 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. avo
by eps 12y ago
Unlike 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 12y 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 12y agoThat's exactly my point. SpaceX doesn't need to name the dummies, nor judging by their history they would want to.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoJust Read The Instructions Of Course I Still Love You
- eps 12y agoFair enough. I concede the defeat.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoOmnia vincit amor et nos cedamus amori.
- morbius 12y 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 12y agoThe trouble with wars against humour, is they tend to be really funny.
- wazoox 12y agoBTW, the cute Rosetta was from ESA PR, not NASA.
- eps 12y ago...indeed it was/is and I knew that. Thanks.
- lotsofmangos 12y 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 12y 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 12y agoI wonder which of their vessels will win GCU Grey Area for its name.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoIf Elon launches a space vessel named 'Grey Area', I either want to be on it, or in a bunker.
- ceejayoz 12y 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 12y agoCapt. "Ace" Owens?