{"id":30835,"date":"2023-12-10T18:32:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T23:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30835"},"modified":"2023-12-10T18:33:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T23:33:06","slug":"what-are-the-origins-of-the-names-just-read-the-instructions-and-of-course-i-still-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30835","title":{"rendered":"What are the origins of the names &#8220;Just Read The Instructions&#8221; and &#8220;Of Course I Still Love You&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/bUAzj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"155\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">SpaceX \/ Elon Musk dubbed their East Coast floating landing pad (or &#8220;Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship&#8221;, (ASDS) if you really prefer), Just Read The Instructions, apparently after a ship from<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/scifi.stackexchange.com\/questions\/81164\/what-are-the-origins-of-the-names-just-read-the-instructions-and-of-course-i\">What are the origins of the names &#8220;Just Read The Instructions&#8221; and &#8220;Of Course I Still Love You&#8221;?<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>tl;dr: from the self-named ai spaceships in Ian M. Banks &#8220;<em>The Player of Games<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>til SapceX&#8217;s fleet currently is tugged to position, then automnomously maintains that postion, with safety ship nearby.  i siuspect the goal is to eventuially have it navigate out &amp; back itself,<s> but no idea when<\/s> so could be done now, per wikipedia, as well as the necessary locking down for transport:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"397\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05-1024x397.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05-1024x397.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05-768x297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05-750x290.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05-1226x475.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05-675x261.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/spacex-drone-landing-ships-Wikipedia-2023-12-10-18-24-05.jpg 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX \/ Elon Musk dubbed their East Coast floating landing pad (or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[140,899,274],"class_list":["post-30835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-paul","tag-scifi","tag-spacex","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30840,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30835\/revisions\/30840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}