NASA browncoats boost the signal into space by artcat81

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NASA browncoats boost the signal into space

POSTED BY: ARTCAT81
UPDATED: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 06:42
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:04 PM

it hasnt till I posted it now, I hope people wont mind. I loved this and really uber shiny. I have always been fascinated by Space and the wonders we can encounter when we go out there and just know there is some attempts at getting out there makes me happy!
Prakash

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Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:20 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Kurya,

Thank you so much for putting this on Whedonesque!

I just think this is so shiny and I just want everyone to know!

I've loved the idea of going to the stars since I was very young. I love that they have our old battle scarred shuttle back up and running!
And the fact that for one morning the astronauts heard those beautiful words from our Captain.. makes me so proud.

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:36 AM

ARTCAT81

I'm not registered with Whedonesque soo Xie xie for followmal for posting it!

i think a good way to draw attention to it is to write and request a copy of it

Here is NASA's main public e-mail and all the information needed concerning the little snippet.

I suggest writing a brief e-mail to them showing your excitement for the firefly qoute getting used etc. Make it positive and be sure to drop the word Firefly or Serenity or both!

public-inquiries@hq.nasa.gov

UPLINK ID: 13-0709
USOS Daily Summary
GMT 196, Saturday, 15 July 2006
Docked Ops – FD 12

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 3:50 AM

KURYA

errr. I posted it on whedonesque :P

And cool abou requesting a copy, maybe I might do that. hehe ;)
Prakash

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:33 AM

PAGANPAUL

I just can't help but wonder how many Browncoats are on the NASA team. Someone had to select that quote, and then someone had to aprove it, and then someone etc... Just how many Browncoats are there at NASA?

You can't stop the signal.

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流口水的婊子和猴子的笨儿子。
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:36 AM

MYCROFTXXX

NASA TV is available on DirecTV, channel 376. Had it on the entire week after the successful launch. Watched most of the EVAs including the repair experiments. Much higher quality than the web site feeds.

Regarding the original thread, I had no doubt there were Browncoats in their ranks. Remember, many of them ARE Texans. They are also dreamers of the future that could be as most of the key personnel that work (or contract) for NASA can, no doubt, make more money in the private sector. They obviously love what they are doing.

I wonder when they'll use the theme song from Firefly for the crew wakeup song?

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:45 AM

SAMEERTIA

Uh, the quotation is wrong!
Isn't it "keens" not "keels"?

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 7:21 AM

BROWNCOATETTE

It is. "Keens," that is, the gist being that you'll know something is wrong before she tells you about it.

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:02 AM

ARTCAT81

Well, in regards to how many browncoats in NASA, here is what my NASA browncoat source said,

" Browncoat Flight Controllers working both station and shuttle were able to convince the ISS Planning Flight Director, as recent convert to Firefly, that the quote would be a great inspiration to the crew as the International Space Station finally returns to three fulltime crew members with the addition of Flight Engineer Thomas Reiter who arrived aboard Space Shuttle Discovery."

Also, at one of the Early Serenity Screenings NASA folks took up 2 rows in the theater in Houston

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 8:41 AM

ARTCAT81

ok even better idea of the browncoat numbers in NASA,

my browncoat NASA buddy just posted this over on serenitymovie.org:

"oh there are a bunch of us know. when show aired there was just myself and another guy in our group of 15 flgiht controllers. But since the DVD's came out we have converted all but one in our group, plus a couple of division chiefs, flight directors and others. we keep spreading the word. after all my discussions with our PAO during the shift about if anyone called the PAO newsdesk requesting the document and such she is now going to check out the show and movie. another flight controller who has had one of my dvd loaner sets for months now finally started watching them before he came into shift the other day. he is liking it and has been asking questions the past few nights as we sit in Mission Control."

oh and heads up looks like our lil show may get sent on a iss mission :) its not a go yet, so do not get your hopes up buut... :) still shiny

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:59 PM

FLORALBUNNY

kurya wrote:
Tuesday, July 18, 2006 17:04
it hasnt till I posted it now, I hope people wont mind. I loved this and really uber shiny. I have always been fascinated by Space and the wonders we can encounter when we go out there and just know there is some attempts at getting out there makes me happy!
Prakash
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Thank you so much, kurya. After I posted
here I took a peek there and didn't see
anything. I'm not a member, so could do
nothing about it. Glad you did.
A nice, fresh llama to you!

Artcat, when you talk about our shiny little
show going into space, do you mean sending
a DVD set out? That would be absolutely,
utterly, beyond beautiful. Joss would be
(dare I say this?) over the moon.
BDHs might be a little bit pleased as well.
Great work by your buddy on the NASA
conversions!

ßun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
-------Hide the rum!-------

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:17 PM

KURYA

ooooo a fresh llama!! uh...what do i do with it? I cant eat it since IM vegetarian...soooo....

And that is shiny about the dvds. is it the show or movie? How about both?? And good job on the houston browncoats broadcasting the message of Firefly into Space. I wonder if aliens(or cow fetuses) will want to join our ranks now.
Prakash

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:18 PM

MYCROFTXXX

Artcat:

You just GOTTA talk your NASA friend into recommending the Firefly theme song as a wake-up for our fellow travelers on the ISS! Can you imagine how that'll play in Hollywood? "Gee Joss, you still got it!"

Hmmm, wonder how it would look to dock Serenity at the ISS... It'd make cunning wallpaper dontcha think? Have to think about this one a while...

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:29 PM

FOLLOWMAL

Quote:
Originally posted by artcat81:
I'm not registered with Whedonesque soo Xie xie for followmal for posting it!

Eeeep, I'm not registered with Whedonesque either, Artcat... Kurya is the wonderful Browncoat who did that for you and us!

He's always taking news over there for us.
Bless him!

Thanks, Kurya!!

"You hold. Hold 'til I get back." Mal

Click here www.fireflyfans.net for info about the Serenity Summer Campaign and how you can help!

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Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:30 PM

CHINDI

Damn.. I mean GORRAM this is just too too shiny!!

Space is the future.. and Serenity is a great vision of ppl in Space.. can't wait for this to go to the ISS.. and it will...

Chindi

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:31 AM

ARTCAT81

Mycroft, your a Houston BC your ownsself :p

the browncoat who got me this info is Maii he is on our houston browncoat board and flight controller

Hey folks headed for ComicCon, can yall make sure Joss gets a copy of the NASA daily summary???? Pretty please I think he might be pleased if he has not heard about this already!

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 5:46 PM

FLORALBUNNY

kurya wrote:
Wednesday, July 19, 2006 14:17
ooooo a fresh llama!! uh...what do i do with it? I cant eat it since IM vegetarian...soooo....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ai, ya! NO EATING OF THE LLAMAS!!!
You may use yours as a pet, a beast of
burden, a warm snuggly on a cold night,
an artist's model, a sturdy and loyal
guard...I'm not too sure about lawn-mowing,
but you'll find many uses for your new
Fresh Utility Llama.

I hope the FF series goes into space first,
then the BDM. Stories I read about folk being
hooked (even relatively recently) seem to
start with the series. Or it's my bias....
Or folk who didn't like the BDM never get to
the series and don't know about us, so can't
post here & elsewhere....
Everything's a gorram sampling problem!
Heh.

ßun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
-------Hide the rum!-------

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 6:04 PM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Hey, both my husband and I came in through the BDM. We watched the series afterwards on the recommendation of a friend, but the BDM was definitely our point of entry. So that's two at least.

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:35 PM

FLORALBUNNY

CaliforniaKaylee:
> We watched the series afterwards on the recommendation of a friend,
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Part of my point, in a way.
You saw BDM but even so, it took the reco of a friend to get you into the series.

The demo we can't detect is who didn't like the
BDM but would have liked the series had they
seen it first.

ßun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
-------Hide the rum!-------

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Thursday, July 20, 2006 7:44 PM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

Ah, you do have a point there. Nearly all the Browncoats I know were converted by another Browncoat originally. Actually (getting way off topic now), it'd be interesting to make a great big chart of Browncoats, trace back who converted who, all the way back up to... those who saw it when it was originally on, I suppose. (And I have an excuse there: I was working crazy overnight hours and planning my wedding during Firefly's entire run, so I didn't watch any tv at all.

)

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Friday, July 21, 2006 4:50 PM

FLORALBUNNY

CaliforniaKaylee:
Actually (getting way off topic now), it'd be interesting to make a great big chart of Browncoats, trace back who converted who, all the way back up to... those who saw it when it was originally on, I suppose
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I'm a convert, second degree (kids saw it on
TV -- I don't have one, so had to do the DVD
thang).
What a nifty idea: Browncoat "genealogy!"
I can imagine it would look like the branching
of a computer program which I saw laid out all
over a (huge) wall during a big conversion
project some years ago.
Or the Anne Rice description of the genealogy
on the wall in one of her books, a little hairier
and more sinuous.

ßun
~2006~Firefly Summer~2006~
==We aim to exponentiate==
-------Hide the rum!-------

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Saturday, July 22, 2006 11:06 AM

CALIFORNIAKAYLEE

I'm a convert of the third degree at the very least. I know who converted the people who converted me, but I'd have to go to her and see if she saw the show when it was on, or if she herself was converted by someone else.

It would be a messy, messy genealogy. Probably more akin to vampire sires than to actual genealogy!

Quite tempting to try though...

~CK

You can't take the sky from me...

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Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:49 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Very, very intriguing.

Wish I'd not thought of that computer chart,
though. That was a nightmare time I'd tried
with modest success to over-write out of
memory. Large two-story room. Hung all over
the East wall, a covering of fanfold greenbar.
Against the wall, a ladder. Mechanical
pencils, straight-edges, an erasing
machine. On the paper, a great, branching
chart, all the "where does it go"s with
notes on the "what does it do"s in miniature lettering.
Trying to stitch together dozens of
pre-existing modules (custom-tweaked, natch)
into a functioning whole, said whole intended
to replace something *which already worked.*
Running through the project like a gold
thread in a tapestry was the deep conviction
of the underlings that here there were blind leading blind.

Still not sure how we survived it, but we
did. Heh.

ßun
(trembling)

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Monday, July 24, 2006 4:22 AM

ARTCAT81

Hammer2 over at the SCI-FI board was able to take the print out and hand it to Joss at Comic-con. How shiny is that!

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 3:53 AM

JANE0904

Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?

Quote:
Originally posted by Browncoatette:
It is. "Keens," that is, the gist being that you'll know something is wrong before she tells you about it.

Just want to be anal here, and point out that, to us in the UK, 'keens' is an old word for crying, so most appropriate when rain is lashing down on the windows like tears.

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"Is it bad that what she said made perfect sense to me?"

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Wednesday, July 26, 2006 6:42 AM

BROWNCOATETTE

(Being anal right back atcha....) Yep, the definition Webster's gives for the noun "keen" is "a lamentation for the dead uttered in a loud wailing voice or sometimes in a wordless cry." The verb form is the uttering of same. I've seen other dictionaries that define it as a "mournful wail," which I think is probably the closest to how it's being used here.

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