The rocket carrying the cremated remains of James Doohan has come back to earth - but nobody knows exactly where
Posted on 05/11/2007 6:27:13 AM PDT by bedolido
Beaming him up was the easy part - the problem was transporting him back to Earth.
A search team continues to look for a rocket carrying ashes of the actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, almost two weeks after it hurtled to the edge of space from New Mexico.
Remains of the Canadian-born actor, who died two years ago at the age of 85, blasted off from a remote launch site on April 29 carrying a payload that included the ashes of astronaut Gordon Cooper and several experiments.
A spokeswoman for Houston-based Space Services Inc, which organised the "memorial spaceflight," says the telephone-pole sized rocket descended by parachute into a rugged area that a search team has repeatedly failed to reach.
"The terrain is very mountainous; it's not somewhere that you can walk or drive to. My understanding is that it will take some time to get up into there," Susan Schonfeld said.
"They know the general location, and we have the utmost confidence that they will recover it."
Schonfeld says the search had been hampered by "horrendous" weather in the desert state, but expected the Up Aerospace Spaceloft XL craft to be recovered in coming days.
Doohan played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Montgomery Scott in the original 1966-1969 Star Trek television series.
He inspired the legendary catch phrase "Beam me up, Scotty" - even though it was never actually uttered on the show.
Hundreds of spectators clapped and cheered as his ashes roared aloft along with those of some 200 other people, including astronaut Gordon Cooper, who first went into space in 1963 and died in 2004 at age 77.
The rocket carrying the cremated remains of James Doohan has come back to earth - but nobody knows exactly where
My WebTV Plus compresses all large images down to 544 wide tops
So a 513x384 image set at 100x750 shows up on my TV screens full width at about 544x408
A 4x3 ratio
Your PC may see “stetched” pixels
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The 2 tables I posted above it are both 1024x768 each posted at 100%x768
The number of colors with the fiery sections is over 144,000 colors
As used in a large screen digital movie or a DVD
I can redo it with more than 128 colors &/or at 600x450 or 800x600 or 900x675
221K is a small filesize for that complex an image
The 2 tables together are only 370K total
[221K is a small filesize for that complex an image
The 2 tables together are only 370K total]
Yes, you got it down really low in file size, amazing.
My eagle is almost that size, lol. Maybe a few more colors would improve it but still not be too large. Your call JB!!
Much easier to convert to a “still” .jpg at 1024x768 and keep the bright true colors
Sometimes attempting to animate all of these is hard if trying to get them to load easily yet retain high resolution and quality
Darn I wrote a reply and lost it when I went back and looked at all of your images!
This looks very sharp and bright colored devolve, very nice. No animation but you don’t have to have it. Makes a beautiful webpage background!
That’s the Hubbell “Star Birth” from NASA with the brightest colors and new stars
The Star Trek “Constitution Refit” of the USS Enterprise CGI graphic I used over the the latest Hubbell star creation pix covering 5 light years
Netscape covers about 256 colors but the HDTV should see more than we do
Yes -
Another original screen saver BG from devolve
You should put up a website to sell them! I’ve been to many where they sell screensavers. Once I was looking for a moving cloud background and they had it - for sale, lol
They just describe them and show thumbnails so you can’t steal them. If they are animated they show a non animated thumbnail.
Your graphics are beautiful.
I like to combine older well known images with the newer actual rare images
The film graphics artists use the best in computers and software and take a lot of time to create a short scene
It’s cheaper than paying acting talent but they cost way up in the millions for graphics movies and they gross more than many films and the profit margins are much higher
Dept of Defense uses lots of graphics for training now
I had a large Microsoft Pinnacles [sp?] program in my computer for making videos and I removed it awhile back. I’m not into that although it would be good for family photos, etc.
Sorry, Piper was barking at the den door and I had to check things out!
Yikes, delete! Forgot where I was.....
Delete?
It’s easy to mix things up!
[It’s easy to mix things up!]
[I have a thread saved on a webpage, lol...]
I came back to the computer and forgot I was on a thread!
Borq Cube, very cute. I have to tell you that apparently I didn’t watch enough of Star Trek to know about this. I looked it up today and it actually refers to some type of people!
So that makes it even more confusing.
“The Next Generation” with Captain Pecard
“The Borg” are implanted with communal electronics and eyepieces and think and act together
They absorb their enemies and the become “The Borg” too
Watch out, it'll get ya!!
LOL!
You don’t miss anything!
Graphics, artistry and some ‘other things’ I am great at. Remembering political data is not my thing. Maybe I’m on the wrong forum, lol.
Naa, there is lots of stuff here.
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