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Godspeed to the men on board. And God bless the SpaceX team for bringing it all back home.
by hadtodoit 6y ago
Godspeed to the men on board. And God bless the SpaceX team for bringing it all back home.
- seph-reed 6y agoIt really warms my heart that the landing pad is called "OF COURSE I STILL LOVE YOU DRONE SHIP" In a consumer era where almost all naming is done by marketing and void of any soul, it really, really makes me happy to see a little bit growing through the cracks in the concrete.
- tialaramex 6y agoThe name is just "Of course I still love you". They're named after vessels from Iain M Banks' "Culture" SF setting. Culture spaceships have AI "minds" and the mind of a large ship-constructing ship will name its offspring. They tend to have an odd sense of humour, there are plenty of sites with lists of Culture ship names, and Banks wrote footnotes excusing the obvious references to 20th century human culture as matters of translation (e.g. there is an Offensive Unit named "I said I have a big stick" which is a reference to Theodore Roosevelt's "Speak softly and carry a big stick"). https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the...
- shkkmo 6y agoI believe that the ships pick their own name rather than having it picked for them by the ship that built them.
- Reelin 6y agoIt's actually a drone ship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_ship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_shi...) named "Of Course I Still Love You" after the fictional ship of the same name from Bank's novel "The Player of Games" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games). - Your friendly neighborhood pedant.