2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumBernie's Secret Sevice code name revealed
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)very fitting.
arendt
(5,078 posts)"A Man called Intrepid" - William Stevenson, the WW2 British spy chief.
Or does no one under the age of 40 even make the connection?
Electric Monk
(13,869 posts)arendt
(5,078 posts)Kurovski
(34,655 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)arendt
(5,078 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)arendt
(5,078 posts)I had to look up the slang meaning of a standalone "...".
Or, was it a humorous ... ?
Darn these intertubes.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Live long and prosper.
arendt
(5,078 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum welcomes the new exhibition Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience to Pier 86 this summer. The Museum will be the first venue in the United States to host this first-of-its-kind, immersive Trek Tech experience, spanning 10,000 square feet.
http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/Startrek
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience will feature interactive activities and unique technology, including Leap Motion, table projections, projection mapping and holograms.
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)I got to see the actual flight jacket that Zefram Cochrane wore during that historic first warp flight. (They had it on a stand in a glass case.)
There was much more to the exhibit, and it was all very well done. The highlight was a ride in a Federation shuttlecraft as it engaged hostile Klingons in a dogfight over the Las Vegas Strip.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Sounds like a blast, I'm still grieving Leonard Nimoy. The world just isn't the same without Spock.
aidbo
(2,328 posts)Cab-forward!
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)Picked up that one and the original Enterprise for $2 each. I sold the original on ebay for $80 and kept the other. I rigged up a cord so you don't need a string of lights to use it.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)It's selling for over $100 on eBay.
longship
(40,416 posts)That's when the UK opened the books on Bletchley Park and the Enigma during WWII. Read it shortly after it was released in paper back.
BTW, a great read.
arendt
(5,078 posts)the background. The Enigma story was simpler and had no downside.
But, the spies had a high likelihood of being tortured and killed. In WW2, spying was necessary but still "ungentlemanly". After WW2, it became a cancer on democracy; and, despite the James Bond glorification of spying, it is a "Hall of Mirrors" in which people sooner or later lose their moral compass.
But, the thousands of veterans who kept the Intrepid/Enigma secrets for 25 years - we are all in their debt.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)and that's what I thought of. It is a class of ships and even of our starship dreams.
Launched in 1943, the former aircraft carrier USS Intrepid fought in World War II, surviving five kamikaze attacks and one torpedo strike. The ship later served in the Cold War and the Vietnam War. Intrepid also served as a NASA recovery vessel in the 1960s. It was decommissioned in 1974, and today is berthed on the Hudson River as the centerpiece of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/The-Intrepid-Experience/Exhibits.aspx
I highly recommend a visit.
arendt
(5,078 posts)Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)him well enough. He has a way of barging and dashing around energetically that makes me imagine the SS having to keep on its toes watching him, not just everyone else.
I like "Evergreen" for Hillary too. It suits.
Qutzupalotl
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Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)Bluenorthwest
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Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Probably close to impossible to come up with anything 100% impervious to some negative twist..
Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)Doesn't that defeat the purpose?
I've idly wondered about this for years, whenever I read a story about a Secret Service code name.