Honorable Mentions

[Toaster05]

Just a bit of fun really but I was thinking of names I'd like to be included in the game beyond the obvious. Clearly the likes of Moore and Lovell should be included but can you think of others?

I'll start the ball rolling with a name known to many and entirely worthy of inclusion in my humble opinion.

Kate Russell's Teapot!

 

[JohnStabler]

Feynman & Turing

 

[Kate Russell]

Kate Russell's Teapot!

haha.. love it -- and my Teapot should be used to whop round the head of Elite Dangerous skeptics who said we'd never raise £1.25mil (I'm looking at you Arianna Huffington!)

 

[Toaster05]

I'll let you have that one Kate. My gift to you!

 

[DoctorDanny]

I wouldn't mind references to literary SF heroes like Isaac Asimov or Frank Herbert.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

Kate Russell's Teapot!

Brabens Mug (from the famous interview)

 

[Zedric]

How about some unsung heroes:

Tommy Flowers
Jocelyn Bell Burnell

 

[Davey Boy Wonder]

Major Tom

Oh and forget vanity; DB

 

[Toaster05]

Quite agree Zedric!

 

[Mack]

Stephen Hawking
Brian Cox
Frank Morell
Richard Altwasser
Hermann Hauser
Chris Curry
Lloyd Mangram

Spring to mind atm

 

[Oddball]

Sara Seager and Geoff Marcy for their endless enthusiasm in searching for exo planets.

 

[Abysinth]

some more ideas to throw into the mix...

Robert A. Heinlein
Doc. Emmet Brown
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin and ... in fact, all the apollo astranauts and the russan cosmonauts
Archimedes, Plato
Albert Einstein
Tim Berners-Lee (let's face it, without him, we wouldn't be playing online)
Captains Kirk, Sheridan and Sinclair, Sisko
Isaac Newton

 

[Mobius]

The Monolith from 2001

 

[GeordieMarv]

Carl Sagan
Stephen Hawking
Brian Cox

 

[Eckhart]

Werner Heisenberg
Paul Dirac
Imagine ED implementing an orthonormal basis in a 42 dimensional fun vectorspace. Fear not I won't explain.

Sir Roger Penrose
Amazing concentric circles in the CMB

 

[Jax]

Aristarchus - Thought to have been the first to say the earth was not the centre of the universe (though he did think the Sun was!)

Galileo
Copernicus

 

[Kipper]

All the actors who played Doctor Who? ;-)

Actors from other sci fi where you can't use the character name...

Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones / Dave Prowse and so on...

 

[MortVader]

Hari Seldon

 

[Fangrim]

I for one would love to have Marvin the Paranoid Android in there somewhere! Or any robot named Marvin actually.

 

[Al Wilson]

Hawkings' Hole, obviously.