Starship Asterisk*

Beyond wrote:
"Scotty" died last decade. He can't beam anyone up anymore. Sniff-sniff

• They had enough trouble beaming Scotty up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan wrote:
<<James Montgomery "Jimmy" Doohan (March 3, 1920 – July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Scotty's operation of the Enterprise transporter system inspired the catchphrase "Beam me up, Scotty", which gained currency in popular culture beyond Star Trek fans, even though the exact phrase is never spoken in any live action episode or film in that exact way. In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Kirk says, "Scotty, beam me up."

Many fans told Doohan over the years that it was he who inspired them to choose engineering as a profession. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, an engineer before he participated in NASA's Apollo program, personally told Doohan on stage at Doohan's last public appearance, "From one old engineer to another, thanks, mate."

Doohan suffered from Parkinson's disease, diabetes mellitus, and pulmonary fibrosis in later life. In 2004 he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. On July 20, 2005, at 5:30 in the morning, Doohan died at his home in Redmond, Washington. His ashes, 1/4 ounce (7 grams), were scheduled the following fall for a Memorial Flight to space with 100 others, including Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper. Launch on the SpaceLoft XL rocket was delayed to April 28, 2007, when the rocket briefly entered outer space in a four-minute suborbital flight before parachuting to earth, as planned, with the ashes still inside. The ashes were subsequently launched on a Falcon 1 rocket, on August 3, 2008, into what was intended to be a low Earth orbit, however the rocket failed two minutes after launch. The rest of his ashes were scattered over Puget Sound in Washington. On May 22, 2012, a small urn containing some of Doohan's remains in ash form was flown into space aboard the Falcon 9 rocket as part of COTS Demo Flight 2.>>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinor wrote:
<<In mathematics and physics, in particular in the theory of the orthogonal groups (such as the rotation or the Lorentz groups), a spinor is an element of a complex vector space. Unlike spatial vectors, spinors only transform "up to a sign" under the full orthogonal group. This means that a 360 degree rotation transforms the numeric coordinates of a spinor into their negatives, and so it takes a rotation of 720 degrees to re-obtain the original values. Spinors are like vectors and tensors in that their definition includes their transformation properties, although unlike tensors, the space of spinors cannot be built up in a unique and natural way from spatial vectors. Spinors in general were discovered by Élie Cartan in 1913. Later, spinors were adopted by quantum mechanics in order to study the properties of the intrinsic angular momentum of the electron and other fermions. Today spinors enjoy a wide range of physics applications. Classically, spinors in three dimensions are used to describe the spin of the non-relativistic electron and other spin-½ particles.>>

Beyond wrote:
A peanut sat on the railroad tracks,
His heart was all a flutter.
A train came roaring down the tracks,
Toot-toot, peanut butter.

BMAONE23 wrote:Just don't drink the punchline

Beyond wrote:

BMAONE23 wrote:Just don't drink the punchline

Somehow i didn't notice a "punchline" on either one. But I'm not going back to listen again. Once was enough

Beyond wrote:A NESTING FALCON.