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most elaborate April fools prank this year
They tricked the Astronauts into thinking they are going to the moon, when in reality they are aiming for Jupiter. Good luck nerds!
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I have now seen 2 moon launches live. Will I live to see them actually set foot back on the moon again. Who knows.
Only if you have a really good telescope
I Fuckin hope so Louie.
In 1969, the cold war filled the hearts of the world with dread. Today, we live in times that echo this sentiment.
The launch of 1969 was made with the hope of a better future, and though we cocked it up a drainpipe the first time, maybe we'll take the right path and echo the sentiment "for all mankind".
This launch included a bunch of “American superiority” drivel, and was done on a rocket that is unsustainable and uses leftover parts from the last millennium.
I wish they’d gone with “for all mankind” — instead they went with “America America” even though one of the mission specialists is Canadian and the module was made in cooperation with the ESA.
Yeah I kinda cringed on that "god bless america" speech before the launch. Isn't there 2 Canadians on board and a big part of the Orion was made/designed by ESA? All they got "and our partners around the world" in that speech.
I'm happy that "we" are going back there but this propaganda sillyness is disappointing. I know its always been a part of governments doing space projects, after all I think the only reason "we" are going back there is because the Chinese are going back there. The disappointing thing is that when I was a kid I really thought we would be over ourselves by now, but turns out that seems to be impossible and we are just going back to throwing rocks at each others. Plaaargh.
Anyway. Cool launch, that thing jumped off the pad as if someone kicked it in the nuts. Impressive stuff.
It could be worse. It could be Trump claiming all the glory for himself and jinxing it to miserably fail like everything else that orange pedophile clown touches.
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Oh what's next, will Spain send three wooden boats to the New World, take a few pictures, and come back?
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They go in search of human rights
If I've learned anything from realistic space fiction, it's that they won't find any up there.
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It was a beautiful launch
I forgot I received this a few years ago from volunteering… let’s go Artemis!
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America, fast going backwards, has today reached ~~1969~~ 1968, assuming that this mission succeeds.
(Edit: this is not even a moon landing so more Apolo 8 than Apolo 11).
A truly pointless waste of money. This is what we did with all the cancer research money cut from NIH.
While Whitey's on the moon.
Terrible take. A lot of what we know in science is due to NASA research. NASA is <0.5% of the federal budget. There are plenty of egregious things we are wasting money on to be upset about - this is not one of them.
And a lot of the NASA science budget was cut because it was too boring for the toddler administration who want to play with their flashy toys.
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Not to mention the R&D that Nasa does provides a massive return on investment
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God speed!
(As an atheist, and just thankful despite Elon and Trump's best efforts)
I'm glad there is diversity and Canadian representation, btw!
As an atheist
It's ok to say God speed without clarifying religious denomination. I'm not sure many people here care.
Very often, I was like "I don't think I need to watch this shuttle launch, they might have to scrub it" and then they'd actually launch and I was was like "damn, I should have watched that shuttle launch".
So I was like "naaah, I don't think I need to watch this launch, they might scrub it" and now it looks like they've launched and I was like "shit, I fell for that again, I'm really stupid"
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Trump said they’re going further than we’ve ever gone before! Checkmate Apollo moon landing believers!
They went to hide the Epstein files on the far side of the Moon.
Sometimes I regret that if I had been more of a motivated person in my younger years, I could be in space.
But also, I know that given my physical state and brain damage and such, it was a dead dream as soon as my first stroke happened, two days after birth.
Still, a woman can dream.
Still, a woman can dream.
Republicans are trying very hard to change that, alas.
Also, fuck Republicans.
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They launched the integrity of the USA off the planet, so it won't bother them anymore for a few days.
I can't feel excited about this This feels like part of a new US expansionist agenda.
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Saw it from KSC actually, was great.
omfg can yous not enjoy a moon mission without falling into doomerism and talking about the epstein files
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What scientific benefits will this mission bring?
I'm pretty sure they are doing some studies into immune systems in space, stress/sleep/cognition of astronauts and all that. From what I've read in the papers they will be taking regular saliva samples in preparation to do a lunar south pole mission... where they are worried about radiation? I dunno the specifics this is arm chair science on my part. I'm sure that one day when we finally send a man to uranus they can sample his saliva and figure out what's going on down there if you know what I mean.
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It's mostly about testing the vessel used, for future actually useful missions.
There are some things they're doing, but it's scientifically not very much they couldn't do with probes.
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SLS has gotten a lot of well-deserved hate for being an expendable money pit. All that aside, damn, it lifted off with humans in it and off to the moon! There’s no other currently available rocket that can do that, including Starship.
whew. i've rolled the dice on my life, but i've never gotten on a boeing spacecraft. and the shitter's already clogged.
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It was awesome
Please don't let it be cancelled and returned early because of a toilet That would just be too much. This is the first thing that has made me legitimately excited since having to unexpectedly say goodbye to my soul-dog last month. I need this, dammit.
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