🎵"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.
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
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
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?
Mate, ICBMs were solved decades ago, SLS is a jobs program.
