SpaceX CEO/CTO Elon Musk has named his company’s drone ship/booster rocket landing pads after two of Iain M. Banks’ Culture starships.
Repairs almost done on the spaceport drone ship and have given it the name "Just Read the Instructions"
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 23, 2015
West Coast droneship under construction will be named "Of Course I Still Love You"
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 23, 2015
(And you may be entertained by the suggestions for new Culture ship names that a Banks fan has been making on Twitter.)
[Via Tor.com.]
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I remember a period of the 1980s when most New Wave bands had album titles like that. “Tear Along Dotted Line,” or “Contents May Have Settled During Shipping.”
The man is on a roll, he was on the Simpson’s last night.
For a man who invented an electric car he sure burns a lot of rocket fuel.
~~ Lisa Simpson
rocket fuel = H2 + O2…