I just started looking for different space mission types, to try and come up with a title for something new I’m going to be doing here*. The first thing I googled was simply “space mission types”. The top result was this page, from NASA. When I clicked on it, this is what I got:
Click for the full size screenshot. I don’t know why – I certainly wouldn’t find a failed space mission funny – but “access to space: catastrophic failure” struck me as hilarious.
* The new feature that I’m thinking of is similar to the Eager Beaver at Jay’s Headspace and the Sunday Roast at Bright Meadow. They’re basically weekly (usually, anyway) posts with links to interesting stuff around the web, along with commentary for the links. I was kind of doing this with the del.icio.us link posts, but I stopped for a couple of reasons. One, I didn’t like having link posts appear every single day (and they usually did, if I had the time to browse the web), and two, I didn’t like the irritating 255 character limit on the description area of links. The 255 character limit is okay when I’m just describing a link for my personal use, but it can be frustrating when I’m wanting to babble on and on about the link. Not to imply that I’m, ahem, verbose or anything.
Now all I need to do is come up with a spiffy science / science fiction-y title for the “feature” (as is quite often on my blog, I’m using the term loosely 
). Suggestions are welcome if you’d like to drop one (or many) in the comment bucket.
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Not that it’s a competition or anything, but I’ve been doing the Sunday Roast for a lot longer than Jay’s been doing the Eager Beaver.
*grump*
Just so long as you don’t steal my sunday thunder. Remember those ninja penguins…
Posted 10 Nov 2006 at 12:40 pm ¶I know you’ve been doing it a lot longer than Jay has.
And, I won’t be doing my linkfest on Sunday, so no worries about me taking your thunder away. Having said that, don’t make me call the Hobbit Vikings out. They don’t like having their (many) meals interrupted.
Posted 10 Nov 2006 at 1:29 pm ¶… But I’ve been blogging longer (I think)!
Might sound a little cheesy, but how about “Shooting Stars”, or “Links From the Black Hole”, “Deep Space Links”, “Hobbits, Beavers and Penguins – Oh My!”, “Space Trash”, “Space Walk(ing)”, “Asteroid Belt” “Lunar Links” … If I come up with anything better I’ll let you know.
Posted 10 Nov 2006 at 11:21 pm ¶Thanks for the suggestions, Jay. I’m liking Deep Space Links and Space Trash. Asteroid Belt is also kind of cool.
Posted 11 Nov 2006 at 3:53 am ¶My pleasure. It was kinda fun trying to come up with names, gets the brain cranking. I went through the same mental process when I came up with “Eager Beaver”.
Posted 11 Nov 2006 at 1:04 pm ¶Jay – depends how you define ‘blogging’, because I’ve got the archives from a regularly updated, reverse chronological, journal website that I used to host over at Geocities going back to Feb 2003. And I had a site before that too from about 2000/2001 (not that it’s a competition
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Josh – Life on Mars?
Posted 13 Nov 2006 at 2:55 am ¶Thanks for the suggestion, Cas. I’ll add it to the list.
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