For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads: “We came in peace for all Mankind.” As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.
- Carl Sagan
🎵"Once the rocket goes up, who cares where it comes down, that’s not my department." Says Wernher Von Braun 🎵
🎵"Some may say he’s hypocritical. He’ll just say he’s apolitical. Call him a Nazi, he won’t even frown: ‘Nazi scmatzi,’ says Wernher von Braun." 🎵
crazy Tom Lehrer died just few months ago in july, he was 97
I get the meme and the juxtaposition is… depressing, but it’s sad how people don’t realize that this is an international mission - Jeremy Hansen is a Canadian, 1/2 of the capsule was built by the ESA, the DSN sites are in the US, Spain and Australia… This really isn’t a singularly American affair, and it’s rather bleak that we can erase all that cooperation because of this stupid fucking war.
During the video call after the loop, Jeremy made an observation about how we’re all together on this rock and diversity is important, directly to the orange blob on the phone. That man is my new personal hero
Fuck you gonna do, fire me? I don’t work for NASA
The op is erasing the cooperation right now in picturing this as an US project.
To be fair, it primarily is a us financed affair.
Even if it’s a big collaboration. I have trouble feeling good about it. It still feels like furthering US interests, which align less and less with mine
I get it. It is a huge accomplishment by humans all over but likely will result in USMC on the moon at some point, we’re really into the whole imperialist thing
Us interested to… Enable space and low grav manufacturing as well as further space exploration and mining?
That won’t happen and even if it does it will only benefit those who already have too much
The sense of shared achievement isn’t there for me.
Humanity is capable of wonderful things and horrible things, usually both at once. A cursory glance at history reveals a readily visible long precession of cruelty and thoughtlessness, but it also shows cooperation, beauty, altruism, and resistance to cruelty.
Insisting that we should never look at the good things because the bad things exist does not make the world a better place. It’s good that we’re going back to the moon. We’re going to learn a lot. Some of those things will help us, others will hurt us, but there’s something to be said for our species using some portion of its effort to help us better understand our world.
Maybe things like going to the moon can create opportunities to stop doing things like murdering each other en masse.
Also, “thank God I’m off that godawful fucking planet, even for just a little while” - Artemis crew member
sending a rocket around the moon to collide on enemy territory on the way back is what i call a pro gamer move
literally a 360 no scope
Imagine gravity is fractal… because light is just a wave, and gravity is just a wave… So imagine there’s a big piece of glass that splits up gravity like a prism, so that there’s, like, blue gravity and yellow gravity. And then somebody gets hit by the red gravity, and it makes them super heavy, so they have super strength, but, like, they’re also really slow. And another guy gets hit by microwave gravity. So he’s trying to zap everybody, and just when he’s about to zap the main guy, we see a lady come out, and she turns out to be Ultraviolet Girl, and she has Super-Speed, so she beats him. And it, like, also gave her giant cans.
—Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
—Bradley Lovell, The Looker
I read Gravity’s Rainbow. I’m pretty sure that’s not in there, but it might as well have been.
Absolutely bonkers novel.
It’d be ironic if the crew ultimately lands in Iranian airspace.
Just make an AI recovery. Call it Capricorn One…
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Dude… they have been working on this since 2017.
How long do you think is needed to prepare for a moon trip like Artemis II?
its wild watching these assholes meme and do nutella commercials while riding an ICBM research prototype over WW3
Mate, ICBMs were solved decades ago, SLS is a jobs program.
ICBMs typically only need to go half-way around the planet, so a bit of overkill on the range there.
The fuck are you on about?
