LOHAN seeks stirring motto for spaceplane mission patch The Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) team has decided that in the best tradition of space endeavour, our audacious Vulture 2 spaceplane mission needs a proper embroidered patch so that we may reach for the heavens in style. In fact, having something to sew on your flight suit/lab coat is pretty well obligatory, and …
Surge, inquit, et recesserunt a te - Up, up and away!
Id quod factum est, quo nunc ad proximum vectis - That's that done, now where's the nearest bar?
Nunc demum in mare, non quasi ultimum playmonaut! - I hope I don't end up in the sea, like the last playmonaut!
Tutum certo habes? - Are you sure this is safe?
... or are you aiming for a logo that can be half-read in any direction? Vulture 1 got the words in the right direction.
And I am cheating on the Latin: NON DVCOR DVCO. Something as "I'm not guided, I lead." Google showed a interesting variation as I typed: NON DUCOR DCO, which means "Not lead to God" which brings a whole double-meaning, maybe triple-meaning there. Have fun with those suggestions.
1). Whatever the Latin is for "Too much wine on our hands"
2) A creepy U.S. National Reconnaisance Office-style patch showing the El Reg vulture with the Earth in its talons and a motto of "Now, what's for lunch?"
3) Caricature Lindsay Lohan astride the El Reg vulture (ala Heavy Metal) with a caption of "Going my way, boys?"
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Aerostati Ad Parietem (literally "balloons to the wall")
or (the only usable attempt to create a Latin portmanteau word):
Pilacendii Ad Parietem
combining "pila" (ball - also a possible translation of balloon per several sources) with the plural of "incendium" (an incendiary missile).
Of course, while I intended pilacendii to be equivalent to ballocket, it probably is closer to "flaming flying balls", which might make even a brave Playmonaut pilot uncomfortable.
The most common translations of "balloon" were "aerostatum" (airship, hot-air balloon) and "vesica" (balloon or bladder, but not necessarily something intended to rise). I found no good translation of "rocket" except as salad. "Rucheta" appears related to architecture or surveying, and Google's "fusce" is apparently wrong, even according to Google when re-translated to English.
Someone who actually knows Latin could probably do better, and is likely snickering at my ignorance... 8-}
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Lester, regarding the first raw effort at the patch, in my view there isn’t enough contrast between the selected shades of red and blue; either a darker shade of blue, or thin white dividing lines at the red/blue borders, would help. I don’t know if most of the patch’s stars were randomly placed or not, but in honour of the SPB I’d suggest using the pattern of the Teapot asterism in Sagittarius, perhaps with τ Sagittarii as the star located between between the r of Navigator and the L of Low.
On the topic of a stirring motto, I’ll offer two possibilities:
Both were kept brief, in case the motto would be going on the patch. The first is a straightforward, no-nonsense message; the second has multiple possible meanings, some cheekier than others, depending upon which definitions of the verb and object are chosen. English translations are intentionally left as exercises for the reader, particularly since a certain online service offers translations (in these cases) with eelful-hovercraft levels of accuracy.
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