What I Think » james_doohan http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink Yes. I'm back. Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:23:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Scotty Reaches the Final Frontier http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink/2007/04/30/scotty-reaches-the-final-frontier/ http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink/2007/04/30/scotty-reaches-the-final-frontier/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:15:14 +0000 Paul http://www.paulmc.org/whatithink/2007/04/30/scotty-reaches-the-final-frontier/ James Doohan who played Scotty in the original series of Star Trek has been sent into space. To be precise, his ashes were. To be completely pedantic about the matter, his ashes were flown 70 miles above the Earth, and then returned to his family. But still, it’s pretty cool to be able to say that you were in space. (Obviously James Doohan isn’t saying it, because he’s dead, but you know what I mean.)

When I die, that’s what I want to do. But on a grander scale. I don’t just want part of my ashes sent 70 miles up. I want my whole body sent into space, never to return to Earth. Aim my coffin towards Gliese 581 and send me off. It doesn’t have to be fast, just as long as I get there. After all, I’ll be dead, what will it matter to me?

I wonder what the Gliesiens would make of that? A dead Irishman arriving at their front door without so much as a “how do you do”. Imagine all the theories they would come up with to explain my presence. It would definitely mess with their heads. Think of it as the first inter-stellar prank.

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