Send your name to Mars!!

[Bill_L]

NASA's next mission to Mars was scheduled to launch in the fall of 2009 but has been delayed until the fall of 2011. If you go to the website

http://mars9.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/index.cfm

you can sign up to have your name included on a microchip that will be attached to the rover. Just fill in the blanks and click on submit to register. You can put more than one name in each of the blanks in case you want to include middle names, maiden names, etc. After registering a certificate will appear on the screen with your name, date, etc. You can print it or if you want to - select "save as a pdf" when you select print from your browser. You can print it later or just look at it without printing it. You can also look to see which states or countries have the most participants.

Feel free to pass it on or register others such as your parents, grandparents, etc.

If you want to read about the mission you can go to

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/ and click on the menu at the top of the page.

[hoops]

thanks for the info Bill
peace
hoops

[Gandalf]

Right about now, I'm ready to sign her up, and pay the fee myself.

[coffeegyrl]

Gee, are we exposing ourselves to interplanetary identity theft? ;)

[DaveM]

Aren't men supposed to be from Mars already?

Rudies on Mars.....I think I like the idea.

[Dee]

Well I would but it’s already on my birth certificate so why be redundant?

[Randy & Betty in Pa]

Are you kidding me? My reputation is bad enough here on earth I might need to move to mars one of these days and I want to be able to pass through intersteller customs...

Best

R.

[DaveM]

Oh....I hadn't thought of that.....we don't have diplomatic relations with Mars and that could get one on a no-fly list or some such thing.

Has anyone else heard Stan Freberg's lovely c. 1960 album "The United States Of America", which tells the story of the American Revolution in a manner probably more accurately than we'd care to think, with hilarious results? Thomas Jefferson comes around to Ben Franklin's house with the Declaration of Independence, leading to some discourse about how "the whole thing seems a bit pinko to me" and ends with both of them singing "A Man Can't Be Too Careful What He Signs These Days".

Come to think of it, that album could do with a highly-promoted re-release, what with some of the stuff being passed around as "patriotic" of late. Then again, I'm not sure that most of the people who could benefit from it are old enough to get most of the jokes.

[hoops]

Davem, sounds liek something i would like to hear. so much to listen to and so little time.
peace
hoops

[Sara]

Aren't men supposed to be from Mars already?
Well, that explains a lot! :D

Thanks for the link, Bill.

[lucille]

Oh....I hadn't thought of that.....we don't have diplomatic relations with Mars and that could get one on a no-fly list or some such thing.

Has anyone else heard Stan Freberg's lovely c. 1960 album "The United States Of America", which tells the story of the American Revolution in a manner probably more accurately than we'd care to think, with hilarious results? Thomas Jefferson comes around to Ben Franklin's house with the Declaration of Independence, leading to some discourse about how "the whole thing seems a bit pinko to me" and ends with both of them singing "A Man Can't Be Too Careful What He Signs These Days".

Come to think of it, that album could do with a highly-promoted re-release, what with some of the stuff being passed around as "patriotic" of late. Then again, I'm not sure that most of the people who could benefit from it are old enough to get most of the jokes.

I loved Stan Freberg back in the day. The one phrase I remember is "he got stabbed in the rotunda" and everytime a stabbing is mention on the news (more and more frequently) I always think of Julius Caeser.