[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Blacklight

You know... someday... when historians dig these spacecraft up in the far future, how many stupid joke names they'll have to go through when they're studying the things. I wonder if anyone eyeball checks the names before they get to the spacecrafts ?

Well, thanks to Carl Sagan's bright idea, we as a species have already sent naked pictures of ourselves out of the solar system on a gold-plated plaque aboard the Pioneer space probes. I have no doubt that someday, somewhere out there in the universe aliens will be getting giggles at our high-minded expense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_plaque