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Ichingcarpenter

(36,988 posts) Sun Apr 10, 2016, 04:49 AM Apr 2016

TIL that SpaceX's two autonomous spaceport drone ships

TIL that SpaceX's two autonomous spaceport drone ships "Of Course I Still Love You" (on which the Falcon 9 landed) and "Just Read The Instructions" are named after Culture spacecrafts from Iain M. Banks novel "The Player of Games as a posthumous tribute to Banks by Elon Musk.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series

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TIL that SpaceX's two autonomous spaceport drone ships (Original Post) Ichingcarpenter Apr 2016 OP

Very cool !! I miss The Culture, especially the Ship Minds. eppur_se_muova Apr 2016 #1

eppur_se_muova

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1. Very cool !! I miss The Culture, especially the Ship Minds.

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Sun Apr 10, 2016, 10:47 AM

Apr 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series

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