George Takei recalled Gene Roddenberry wanted the character to represent all of Asia, which symbolized the peace of the Trek universe in spite of the numerous wars in the continent. Roddenberry did not want a nationally specific surname, so he looked at a map and saw the Sulu Sea. "He thought, 'Ah, the waters of that sea touch all shores'," the actor recalled, "and that's how my character came to have the name Sulu."[4][5]

The province of Sulu derives its name from "sulug" or "sug" which in Tausug means "ocean current," while Sulu's capital Jolo is the Spanish corruption of Sulu. {sulu.gov.ph}

ripster wrote:GH is back up.

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ripster wrote:What's funny is I'm the douchebag that reported you.

ripster wrote:WHAT AN ASSHOLE!

Well, you have to admit we DID chat about it extensively.

Lulz.

I'm just updating the list.<br /><br />Geekhack was down because of DDOS attacks, hacking attempts, a clickclack sale, a database upgrade, failed backups, a hardware upgrade, a RAID failure, wiki restore failure, misaligned position of Venus in the night sky, JAVA ate the SQL server, Flash disk installation, failing RAM.