"When Enterprise and Discovery met for the first time at the Smithsonian"Was this the first real meeting of Enterprise & Discovery? Wouldn't they have "met" in 1985 when Enterprise was on display at KSC for several months near the VAB? Brent
Sadly they didn't bring all the three Shuttles together at KSC for a photo before Discovery left...
I like that "showdown" picture where they are about to be nose-to-nose on a road wide enough for just one of them. However, one needs to appreciate how Enterprise was a test vehicle that never went into space, whereas Discovery was the fleet leader and very experienced. So....Discovery: "Oh, hello! What's your name?"Enterprise: "Honk, honk. Yous in the way me finks!"Discovery: "Don't honk me dear! You do realize all these people are here for me."Enterprise: "Me famous 2. Iz went 2 England, France, Vandeborg...."Discovery: "It's Vandenberg, dear. And I've flown over all those places, in space."Enterprise: "Wot's space?"Discovery: "Well its the area....."Enterprise: "HONK HONK!"Discovery: "Honestly!"
Would have been a lot of work, for no engineering benefit. Would have been great, but would have probably gone against the wishes of the transition happy clappers who'd rather roll out a half built Orion, including what I hear was the main person behind getting the fleet retired, a person I was told was grinning and having photos taken next to Discovery at Dulles.Discovery should have "deployed Air Data probe" and knocked the guy out. (That's a joke before someone sends me an e-mail about a spaceship knocking out the guy who handed Russia a ton of money and resulted in the firing of thousands of skilled engineers).
Quote from: Disco747 on 04/22/2012 12:46 pmWould have been a lot of work, for no engineering benefit. Would have been great, but would have probably gone against the wishes of the transition happy clappers who'd rather roll out a half built Orion, including what I hear was the main person behind getting the fleet retired, a person I was told was grinning and having photos taken next to Discovery at Dulles.Discovery should have "deployed Air Data probe" and knocked the guy out. (That's a joke before someone sends me an e-mail about a spaceship knocking out the guy who handed Russia a ton of money and resulted in the firing of thousands of skilled engineers).Oh yes, I can definitely see Discovery knocking that guy out. She won't stand for any nonsense, and I've shown her doing similar things in my Shuttle cartoons!
They'd probably say "Seriously? Humans are dedicating this much time and effort to fantasize about what we'd say if we weren't just machines?"