Tributes to People In Elite: Dangerous

MikeSnos

MikeSnos
SnowGhost said:
If you're going to pay tribute to Felix Baumgartner then you have to also have redbull in there, because after all, it was a professional stunt paid for by red bull.

And no one has yet suggested Ian Bell.
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I think the Baumgartner thing was hyped up so much that it ended up looking like a stunt but there was a lot of very valuable science in there and some of the of the technology and lessons learnt was aimed at preventing (or at least reducing the risk) of loss of life in incidents such as the Columbia disaster....

Back to the recognition stuff...

Certainly agree with Ian Bell getting a mention and also I think ALL the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts should get a mention.

Mention should also be made of the names of the six shuttle craft
Enterprise
Columbia
Challenger
Discovery
Endeavor (American Spelling, sorry)
Atlantis

I also think that some of the NASA leading lights in the early days should get a mention... Those who got the program off the ground for want of a better phrase. These should include:

Bob Gilruth
Chris Kraft
Gene Kranz
James Webb

I'd also look for the following too:

Brian May
Sir Patrick Moore
Alan Turing
Charles Babbage
Sir Isaac Newton
Madame du Pompadour (Has to be a Ship out there called this after the Dr Who ep)
Douglas Adams of course...

I could go on but you're saved by the fact that it's waaaayyyy too late (or early depending on your viewpoint) for me to be up.... (it's gone half one in the morning!)
 

Memnoch

M
Or indeed what happened to Laika. Death in the pursuit of progress is always a risk, but you should at least have the choice.
 

psuamier

psuamier
Not to forget that E : D is still a piece of software, so I think apart from some already included people I feel these are missing:

Donald E. Knuth, the software artist par excellence.
Bjarne Stroustrup

There are more but I don't have them in the old head of mine right now ;)
 

krisavery

krisavery
Dragonstar said:
Maybe a tribute to Ridley Scott. Just for my favourite quote from Blade Runner:
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I don't think Scott should get credit for that quote... really Rutger was the one who made it so good. Here is a bit off IMDB...

Originally, Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) was to have a lengthy monologue just prior to his death, as written by David Webb Peoples. Hauer felt this didn't help in creating any dramatic impact in the scene, so he removed much, keeping the pieces he liked, and then added the last two lines, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."
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Just sayin :)
 

fikuserectus

F
Ian said:
I think the last names of all the leading scientists should be added to the planetary and space station names database, including these.

Wernher Von Braun
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After the Allies won the war and spoke with the captured German rocket scientist. They asked them where they got the idea to build rockets.

They all answered "Robert Goddard". Goddard was the first human to invent and then launch the first liquid-fueled rocket in 1926.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard

Goddard received little public support for his research during his lifetime. Although his work in the field was revolutionary, he was sometimes ridiculed in the press for his theories concerning spaceflight. As a result, he became protective of his privacy and his work. Years after his death, at the dawn of the Space Age, he came to be recognized as one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry.[9][10][11] He was the first not only to recognize the scientific potential of missiles and space travel but also to bring about the design and construction of the rockets needed to implement those ideas

I find it interesting he was ridiculed by the American press. Shows you what they know.
 

Cmdr Andy B

Cmdr Andy B
anyone wants to pay some tribute now is the opportunity to submit your personal incarnation of Issac Asimov to the NPC data base, I can image NPC's called Slip Knot, and Met Alica

if i come across an NPC called Justin Bieber though i don't care if he has an escort of a thousand vipers and a shied generator the size of a small moon I'll find a way to kill the SOB some how
 
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Blitzwing

Blitzwing
How bout some references to great Science Fiction Authors?
Arthur C. Clark was already mentioned but there are more (old and new)

Isaac Asimov
Robert A. Heinlein
Peter F. Hamilton
Frank Herbert
Alastair Reynolds
just to name a few
 

Zzapmort

Zzapmort
If a planet has 2 stations could do double acts:

Morecombe and Wise
Rignall and Penn
Reeves and Mortimer
Barker and Corbett
George And Mildred!
 

gunbladelad

gunbladelad
Roddenberry absolutely MUST be in there - his influence in Science Fiction is such that they even named one of the Space Shuttles after his fictional (flag)ship, the Enterprise.

I think there should be some reference ingame also to famous space programs, such as Voyager. I hope we'll see a "Mir Orbital city" around Earth in reference to the International Space Station...
 

mxcum167

mxcum167
Everyone has made some good suggestions. Here are mine.

How about tributes for those that lost their lives whist pursuing the dream of space travel.

Gus Grissom
Ed White
Roger Chaffee
Vladimir Komarov
Georgi Dobrovolsky
Vladislav Volkov
Viktor Patsayev
Francis R. Scobee
Michael J. Smith
Ronald E. McNair
Ellison S. Onizuka
Judith A. Resnik
Gregory B. Jarvis
Sharon Christa McAuliffe
Rick Husband
William McCool
Kalpana Chawla
David Brown
Mike Anderson
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon

No I didn't know all their names and had to look them up, but I think they deserve a mention.

True hero's in my opinion. :)
 

Laton

Laton
Robski said:
We cant leave out Gene Roddenberry
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Definitely.

I remember a Futurama scene where the **** is damaged and they're scanning for safe planets to land on for repairs and find food.

"This one's a class M planet so it should at least have Roddenberries"
 

GermanTaffer

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I would suggest Louis de Lacaille for the most monoton, annoying and boring planet in the Elite universe. Or maybe a black hole
The miserably guy who invented i.e. the constellation of the pendulum clock in the sky, that is looking like a fish. :eek:
Actually he will be in the E : D, because some red dwarfs near the sun are called after him, i.e Lacaille 8760. The most overrated astromer IMHO. He must have been taken many hard drugs.

Anny Jump Cannon
for her unbelievable work.

Philip K. for a really strange planet.

Ian Bell too, but I don't know if Braben will dare and will been allowed.

Jesco von Puttkamer, because he was always a engaged inventor and supporter of space programs.
 
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