[FPSPACE] Space Station Alpha

[Larry Klaes]

Remember that the lunar base in Space: 1999 was named Alpha.

http://www.space1999.net/

Oh, but then the nuclear waste on the lunar farside
exploded and sent Earth's moon zipping out of the Sol
System at FTL velocities, where it managed to encounter
aliens and their planets every week for two years.

Never mind.



At 08:58 AM 11/03/2000 +1100, Brett Harrison wrote:
>
>Interesting.  I like one suggestion made in that forum:  "Albatross".
>
>* It's a big soaring "bird"
>* There is some morphological resemblance, with the solar arrays providing an
>impressive wingspan
>Subsequent staions could be named after birds, progressing through the
>(admittedly English/Roman)alphabet.  E.g. Bustard (!), Coot etc.  Sheesh!
OK,
>I'm not good at bird names...
>* It's bad luck to drop an Albatross from the sky
>* Semantic link with "sailor" analogy of "astronaut", "cosmonaut",
"taikonaut"
>etc.
>
>
>
>Raoul Lannoy wrote:
>> 
>> When MSNBC proposed to name the station, many  came up with ideas and I'm
>> ROTFL about this (yes, november 1):
>> http://bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/msnbc-space/posts/xc/87955.asp
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Raoul
>> 
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>Brett Harrison 
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