Comments on: James Doohan’s ashes have been on ISS for the past dozen years https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:20:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1148919 Mon, 05 Jul 2021 13:20:21 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1148919 “Tim Pool & Charlie Kirk Break Down The Political Implications Of Star Trek….”
Timcast IRL (July 1, 2021)
https://youtu.be/qqAr6r82j2g
20:41

“Tim, Ian, and Lydia sit down with founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk and co-founder of Human Events Will Chamberlain to enjoy a lighthearted conversation about Tim and Charlie’s favorite show, Star Trek.”

]]> By: Andrew M Winter https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100608 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:07:24 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100608 I was a janitor for 7 years. I ALWAYS followed that paradigm. UNDER promising makes it real easy to OVER perform. I would tell them it would take me 4 hours when it might take two. I’d goof off and do it in three, get my pat on the back, and just goof off for the last hour.

Awesome.

]]> By: J Fincannon https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100447 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 16:05:40 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100447 An interesting thing about Richard Garriott is that he must have made a lot of money from video games. I mean back in the good old days. I fondly recall the Ultima computer game. 1980s. Anyway, he bought the Luna 21 lander and the Lunokhod 2 rover. I though this was apocryphal, but I have not been able to find where this is not the case. James Oberg’s contacts confirm it. Pretty interesting that he claims that since the rover is still in use (retroreflectors) this means he claims property rights to the territory surveyed by it.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100439 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 14:48:08 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100439 Andrew–
Thanks. “It’s all clear to me now…”

Blair–
A most excellent obscure cultural reference!

Max-
You the Man!

]]> By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100405 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 07:18:10 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100405 An interview on British TV in 89. 8min
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3c3LfH7oxbo
Talks of himself, his career, how he loved Trekkies, the words on his tombstone, $200,000 set they made for him to deliver one line and the film clip.

]]> By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100402 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 06:56:55 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100402 Wayne,
deep space nine “body parts” here’s the trailer;
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kXu6fc-L0vM&noapp=1

Some of my favorite scotty episodes;
Drinking the creature from Andromeda under the table, talking to the 1990’s computer on how to make transparent aluminum (how quaint), next generation finding the lost engineer Scotty on a Dyson sphere suspended in a transporter buffer hundred years? in his crashed shuttle pod.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100390 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:35:32 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100390 janyuary: I can claim no Scottish heritage: my family comes from other parts of the UK.

My favorite Scotty pop culture reference is near the end of the movie ‘Chicken Run’ (Aardman Animations/Dreamworks 2000), when the chickens are escaping in their contraption. “I’m givin’ it all she’s got!”. Great fun.

]]> By: Andrew Allen https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100386 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 05:11:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100386 wayne: They sent tiny bits of his ashes each way. A cremated human leaves pounds of ashes. The amount of ashes laminated to a photograph is tiny in comparison.

]]> By: janyuary https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100381 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 03:48:15 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100381 Blair: Precisely!! Are you a Scot, by any chance?

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100377 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 03:29:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100377 here we go….

James Doohan –
Hazel (1962)
https://youtu.be/BwMuZUogkXc
3:57

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100375 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 03:02:50 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100375 ” . . . world’s best space engineer . . . ”

I think you are underselling Scotty, a bit. But, that would be in keeping with his philosophy.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100371 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 02:32:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100371 hhmmm….
ok, so Doohan’s ashes did not make it up via Celestis, but later on they launched them via SpaceX.

SpaceX Launches the ashes of Star Trek’s Scotty
https://youtu.be/b0CaSX9XUb0
0:52

If Doohan was a Ferengi, they would have freeze dried him and auctioned off little slices.
(can’t readily find that clip, but trust me on this….)

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100368 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 02:12:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100368 Mr. Z.,
Thank you..,

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100365 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:59:07 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100365 In reply to wayne.

wayne: You should read the article at the link. It answers your question.

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/james-doohans-ashes-have-been-on-iss-for-the-past-dozen-years/#comment-1100361 Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:42:22 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=72021#comment-1100361 (I though Doohans ashes were sent into space via Celestis.)

Star Trek: Next Gen
Se 6 Ep 4 “Relics”
https://youtu.be/8xRqXYsksFg
0:43

“…you didn’t tell him how long it would really take, did you?!”

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