Comments on Captain Fargon: Sputnik on...

Well, the internet is the perfect place to launch ...

2007-10-08T14:06:00.000+01:00

Well, the internet is the perfect place to launch such facts… whether true or not (although, in this case, it sounds about right). Now, you folks have got me thinking of a whole new avenue for naming conventions - using monkeys which have been lobbed into space!

In the article I had mentioned Albert II and had previously considered Laika the dog (Sorry Laika - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2367681.stm), but do like the thought of using the great-grandchildren++ of the mighty Cro-Magnon’s. I’d have to say, at this stage, that Buzz has it over Flash by a NASA crew-cut, but I do kinda like ‘Yuri’, as in Yuri Gagarin, the first the person in space (who died in another spectacular fireball 7 years later, some 9 weeks before I made my own first ‘small steps for man’).

Aside from anything, Yuri could be quite useful for giving it some character it i.e. “Yuri looking like a fat bastard, time you went for a run pal!”

You could call it Gordon after Flash Gordon. He wa...

2007-10-08T11:29:00.000+01:00

You could call it Gordon after Flash Gordon. He was quite a major space traveller.

And I once heard that the entire bank of computers which powered the first Apollo space flights, which at the time took up about as much space as a double decker bus, featured the same processing power as you could now find in a single chip the size of a pin head.

It's probably not true, but it sounds good.

yeah... i like it!

2007-10-07T13:35:00.000+01:00

yeah... i like it!

How about Buzz? That'd be a good name for a watch...

2007-10-06T21:04:00.000+01:00

How about Buzz? That'd be a good name for a watch.