Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Punster nerds insert jokes on Pluto spacecraft's list of names

Tuesday, January 17, 2006
09:42 PM
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Punster nerds insert jokes on Pluto spacecraft's list of names: "Xeni Jardin:
The Associated Press reports that the New Horizons spacecraft bound for the distant planet icy dirtclod Pluto is carrying a list of 435,000 names. Some of those names were contributed by Slashdot readers. The entire list is posted are at the New Horizons website, and includes Pluto Nium, Heywood Jablome, Kim Jong Il and Participation Certificate. Link (thanks, anonymous).

Image: 'The Atlas V rocket that will carry New Horizons to Pluto moves from the Vertical Integration Facility, left, to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on Monday Jan. 16, 2006. The spacecraft which will take 9 to 14 years to reach Pluto is powered by 24 pounds of plutonium.' (John Raoux - AP)

Reader comment: Tom says,

Almost all of this list of Bart Simpson prank calls have made it onto the rocket to pluto, from IP Freely to Seymour Butz. The only one they managed to screen out was Homer Sexual...
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(Via Boing Boing.)

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