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NefariousNewt
05/15/09

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Side note: It was shortly after the naming of the CSM/LM for Apollo 10 for Peanuts characters, that the front office at NASA put its foot down and demanded that the future names of both spacecraft be a bit more "dignified." Originally, they had not wanted to name the spacecraft, as astronauts had previously done, but Mission Control claimed it would make communications on their loops easier to handle if each craft a unique call-sign to identify it.
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hfree
05/15/09

@NefariousNewt: So what's the excuse for "Enterprise"? (other than it can be claimed to be named for something else. . . and it's essentially a prototype)

Sometimes NASA takes itself too seriously. I like when it allows itself to indulge in the flights of fancy that inspired the program in the first place.
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daisen-in
05/15/09

@hfree: While I'm biting my nails watching a shuttle launch with people aboard and/or half-billion dollar instruments, I'm pretty damn glad they take themselves seriously!
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Macloserboy
05/15/09

@hfree: Enterprise is a name used for real naval vessels since the 1700's in the British, French and American Navy.
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NefariousNewt
05/15/09

@hfree: @Macloserboy: And the naming of the Shuttle Test Article Enterprise was actually accomplished through a write-in campaign by Trekkers to NASA.
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NefariousNewt
05/15/09

@Macloserboy: Not the least of which was the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise (CV-6), which fought with distinction during WWII.
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wtfox?!
05/15/09

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OMG SO AWESOME. I loved Snoopy as a kid (I had a stuffed Snoopy that was my constant companion, and still is), and on one of our high school field trips to NASA I bought a t-shirt with Snoopy and some Woodstock-birds on a moonwalk together.

I still have that, too.
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Samanthrax
05/15/09

@wtfox?!: Right now, I am wearing my favorite Snoopy track jacket which has some Chinese writing on the back, but on the front, "It's not nice to be so sarcastic." is printed over and over. It's awesome.
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LolaQuinn is full of beans
05/15/09

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I think I'm risking a lot of flak here, but am I the only person who never enjoyed Peanuts? I never thought it was funny, or even mildly amusing. And from what I could see from a PBS documentary of Charles Schulz, he sounded like a little bit of an asshole.

*ducks from sandwiches being thrown at face*
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badmutha
05/15/09

@LolaQuinn: *throws sandwich* Not really. It was never guffaw type funny, but sometimes mildly amusing.
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Kivrin
05/15/09

@LolaQuinn: Psst...I never cared for it, either. I wanted to like it, because everyone else seemed to...but I never even liked the holiday specials. You're not alone.
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Macloserboy
05/15/09

@LolaQuinn: We have your address and we're coming for you.

But if you read it after, say the 80's you didn't read the real Peanuts. It enjoyed a very rich peak in the 50's and 60's. And Charles Schultz was not a happy man and worked out all his issues in the strip, which is why the tortures and humiliations inflicted on Charlie Brown were sometimes very, very sad..
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Samanthrax
05/15/09

@LolaQuinn: Oh, this hurts my heart.
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NefariousNewt
05/15/09

@Macloserboy: As a kid, I had a set of original 60's strips (which I still have), and while I did not understand many of the references until much later in life, I always identified with the frustrations that beset Charlie Brown, especially in regards to baseball, a sport I love but never got to play in any organized fashion.
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egg cream
05/15/09

@LolaQuinn: I enjoy what it represents in terms of culture & history, and I enjoy it as something that I can share with my dad, but I don't enjoy the strip itself. As far as phlisophical-kid strips go, I much prefer 'Calvin & Hobbes.'
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LolaQuinn is full of beans
05/15/09

@egg cream: Word. Calvin and Hobbes is far more deserving of getting spacey-things named after them. But Bill Watterson never sold out like Charles Schulz did.
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Mireille is German for the Bart, the.
05/15/09

@LolaQuinn: Peanuts was at times quite topical in the 60's and 70's, too. I remember a storyline where Snoopy was at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm to give a speech and a riot broke out protesting service dogs in Viet Nam. Beetle Bailey never did that!
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LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman
05/15/09

@Mireillepa the Rappa: Also, Peanuts was one of the first strips to feature an African-American character (Franklin) in an all-white strip. And Franklin was not portrayed as some offensive stereotype. He is intelligent and portrayed as a good friend to Charlie Brown.
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badmutha
05/15/09

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But where is his buddy Woodstock? I suppose THE MAN can't allow a hippie symbol to be part of the space program. Dude.
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Santos L Halper
05/15/09

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Meanwhile, Schroeder secured his position as the mascot of the National Endowment for the Arts, Woodstock for the Audubon Society and Peppermint Patty for PFLAG. Charlie Brown's off somewhere in a smokey dive bar, drinking his fifth Jack and Coke, cursing Lucy under his breath.
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BellaTricks
05/15/09

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But beware the Red Baron!
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NewsBunny
05/15/09

@BellaTricks: I did not know the Red Baron had made a moon landing!

For this, I give him props.
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