How many here used NASA's offer to have your name etched onto Curiosity ?

For awhile you could submit your name and NASA would etch it onto a microchip that they then installed on the Curiosity, to take to Mars.

http://marsparticipate.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/

"Thanks to all for submitting your names. You are on your way to Mars!
Your names are being prepared for etching on a microchip that the Curiosity rover will carry on its "back" (its "deck"

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How many here used NASA's offer to have your name etched onto Curiosity ? (Original post)	braddy	Aug 2012	OP
I remember the offer, but I don't think I ever got around to it.	Hissyspit	Aug 2012	#1
Damn, I missed that! Can they bring it back? I want to join in...	petronius	Aug 2012	#2
!	struggle4progress	Aug 2012	#7
There was one nightmare concern if the mission went bad and killed some Martians.	braddy	Aug 2012	#9
I might have done that. I don't remember. I WAS on hand to watch her first steps, though...	Ian David	Aug 2012	#3
Didn't hear about that till now.	Kaleva	Aug 2012	#4
I did not know, or would have done that.	nadinbrzezinski	Aug 2012	#5
I would have loved that if I'd only known about it before just now	Care Acutely	Aug 2012	#6
Maybe on the next one!	Rowdyboy	Aug 2012	#8

Response to braddy (Original post)

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 01:28 AM

Hissyspit (45,788 posts)

1. I remember the offer, but I don't think I ever got around to it.

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Mon Aug 6, 2012, 01:31 AM

petronius (26,446 posts)

2. Damn, I missed that! Can they bring it back? I want to join in...

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Mon Aug 6, 2012, 01:56 AM

struggle4progress (115,873 posts)

7. !

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Mon Aug 6, 2012, 02:02 AM

braddy (3,585 posts)

9. There was one nightmare concern if the mission went bad and killed some Martians.

What if they searched the wreckage of the killing machine, and only found my name?

I wouldn't want them to launch a crash program to build a space ship to track down the evil man from earth who wiped out their miniature one foot square city which housed a million tiny Martians.

I didn't want to go through the rest of my life sleeping with a gun under my pillow, and hiding from Martians.

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Mon Aug 6, 2012, 01:45 AM

Ian David (69,059 posts)