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Space Exploration II: Always Looking up

Three impact flashes on the moon, the mission control science lead (Angela Garcia IINM, standing to the right of the science console; possibly Kelsey Young but I think she is seated on the left and not talking) at JSC is going nuts. Jaw dropping excitement in real time. So fucking adorable.

This is humanity at its best. FTL and let's get the humans away from the Morlocks. Leave the dregs to their wars and wealth. Save the nerds and the artists. The best the rest of us can do is be human shields between them and the superstitious muscle heads cowering behind their guns and gods.
 
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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
makes sense why we need to cut the NASA budget going forward!
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The drama of four people in a fragile tin can a quarter of a million miles away reduces every war, nation, political party, movement, ideology, and religion to a wet fart.

Ya want the meaning of life? Well, there is none unless you make it, but this right here is not a bad thing to make into it.
 
Kepler said:
The drama of four people in a fragile tin can a quarter of a million miles away reduces every war, nation, political party, movement, ideology, and religion to a smelly wet fart.
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I wish I was as enthusiastic as most of you in here. I think it's cool, but I guess as a scientist who is getting/has been getting shit on here in the US for a few years now, I'm tired and not feeling very proud of anything we do in general.

but that is me, and by no means do I think anyone's joy is misplaced here.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I wish I was as enthusiastic as most of you in here. I think it's cool, but I guess as a scientist who is getting/has been getting shit on here in the US for a few years now, I'm tired and not feeling very proud of anything we do in general.

but that is me, and by no means do I think anyone's joy is misplaced here.
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The US is a burp -- 250 years. Capitalism is a cold -- 300 years. Even liberal democracy is just a short case of the runs -- 350 years give or take since the Dutch made it happen. They'll all pass away without harming the species. Humanity will abide.

The best of us will keep on evolving, slowly, and we'll keep on putting distance between ourselves and the vicious, stupid reptiles we came from. We'll either escape them, replace them or, maybe, someday just have to contain them on reservations as a kindness to their limited brains and souls and a warning to our descendants.

A thousand years ago there were perhaps 1000 humans on Earth. 500 years ago, at most 10 thousand. Today we have about 10 million. 500 years from now, 10 billion spread across the solar system and who knows maybe the stars. Little by little, we win. Just as life emerged from inanimate matter, humanity now emerges slowly from brutality, like the sun emerging from behind this moon.

There are already more humans alive at once than there were proto-human apes 2500 years ago when the Greeks began to invent what a human being is.
 
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Just switched on HBO's feed and threw up a little in my mouth as the astronauts laughed along with the child rapist war criminal. The average IQ dropped significantly with him in the conversation.
 
ticapnews said:
Just switched on HBO's feed and threw up a little in my mouth as the astronauts laughed along with the child rapist war criminal. The average IQ dropped significantly with him in the conversation.
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He's the President and they're government employees, they had no choice but to smile politely and play along.
 
Artemis 2 going into a long scheduled loss of signal (LOS) with (1) yet more poop talk (they are allowed to use the toilet during the vents), and (2) a Monty Python reference, "and there was much rejoicing."

These folks are so charming and at the same time so professional. We have come far.
 
ticapnews said:
Just switched on HBO's feed and threw up a little in my mouth as the astronauts laughed along with the child rapist war criminal. The average IQ dropped significantly with him in the conversation.
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You're burying the lede. They absolutely wrecked his ego by twirling the microphone mid rant, not responding to him when he stopped his rant, and then comms checked to 'see if he hung up.'

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Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air
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aparch said:
You're burying the lede. They absolutely wrecked his ego by twirling the microphone mid rant, not responding to him when he stopped his rant, and then comms checked to 'see if he hung up.'

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Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threads

Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air
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Didn't see that part. As soon as I heard his voice I instinctively backed out of the live feed and resumed with From the Earth to the Moon. A time when we had competent people running things.
 
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