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

[braddy]

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&quot ."

[Hissyspit]

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

[petronius]

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

[struggle4progress]

7. !

[braddy]

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.

[Ian David]

3. I might have done that. I don't remember. I WAS on hand to watch her first steps, though...

MarsCuriosity is taking its first test drive in the clean room right NOW Live
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x69241

[Kaleva]

4. Didn't hear about that till now.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. I did not know, or would have done that.

[Care Acutely]

6. I would have loved that if I'd only known about it before just now

[Rowdyboy]

8. Maybe on the next one!