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From: kwa1_ltd@ur-tut (Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: News release of net interest
Message-ID: <1817@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 04:31:55 GMT
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Reply-To: kwa1_ltd@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Karl Wagenfuehr Ltd.)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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I wonder what the chances are of coming up with a name that hasn't been
thought of before?  I mean, I'm sure that all the ground we've covered
here has been covered elsewhere, probably totally independently.  For
proof, I need cite only the last two postings, where two people each
"independently" came up with the clever remark about leaving the name
as the hull designation as being Star Trek's Enterprise's hull number.

WHen the new shuttle is finally named (by a grade school kid, I think
the current plan is), there will be several people nation (world?) wide
who will claim to have come up with that name first.  Obviously if any
thing mentioned here is actually used, causality will naturally be 
assumed.  But I bet that there will be no validity to the claim (and how
am I gonna prove *that*?); the name will have been independently thought
up, because there aren't that many possibilities.

Karl
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