Artemis II: Rightguide is Apoplectic

[eric_erosfan]

The Artemis II crew has broken the record for furthest human travel from Earth.

Great human achievements when you keep MAGAcunts away.

 

[ll74]

252,756 miles
The farthest human beings have ever been from Earth.

Awesome

 

[RoryN]

The photos and video are amazing.

As unbelievably complicated as this trip is, it's (in part) essentially like McDonald's management in a small plane, checking out the next proposed site for a restaurant. South pole is getting scrutinized for the moon base.

Can't wait for them to start dropping cargo during the next mission.

 

[ll74]

 

[latecomer91364]

There is a woman on this historic mission. Along with a Black guy and a Canadian.

So?

You start a thread and that's all you've got?

Idiot.

 

[RoryN]

So?

You start a thread and that's all you've got?

Idiot.

Triggered you quite nicely, didn't it? Yes.

As intended. Poor Deplorable snowflake.

 

[latecomer91364]

Triggered you quite nicely, didn't it? Yes.

As intended. Poor Deplorable snowflake.

Hahahaha! Sticking with your lame-ass "You got triggered" bullshit, are you? You don't know by now what a loser play that is?

Moron.

Do you have anything intelligent to say about anything? ANYTHING?

 

[RoryN]

Hahahaha! Sticking with your lame-ass "You got triggered" bullshit, are you? You don't know by now what a loser play that is?

Appreciate the skills. It works on simps like you - every time.

The intent is to both demonstrate your weakness and enjoy the lulz. Keep playing, Deplorable.

(As if you can help it.)

 

[latecomer91364]

Appreciate the skills. It works on simps like you - every time.

The intent is to both demonstrate your weakness and enjoy the lulz. Keep playing, Deplorable.

(As if you can help it.)

How does it feel to live in a world of self-delusion? You seem quite happy with it.

 

[Wilson23]

So?

You start a thread and that's all you've got?

Idiot.

Those are IMPORTANT milestones, well worth a thread.

 

[eric_erosfan]

So?

You start a thread and that's all you've got?

Idiot.

So you are apoplectic one. Or are you also Rightguide?

 

[RoryN]

Keep playing, Deplorable.

(As if you can help it.)

[90-second response]

 

[latecomer91364]

What was that?

No 'triggered' bullshit?

Oh, probably not enough time - did the nurse show up to wipe your ass?

 

[RoryN]

What was that?

No 'triggered' bullshit?

I can trigger you by breathing, apparently.

Still, I'm keeping you from spending that time writing stories. So I'm doing humanity a favor.

 

[Wilson23]

Why IS this mission just a flyby? The technology for landing on the Moon is more than 50 years old.

 

[eric_erosfan]

Why IS this mission just a flyby? The technology for landing on the Moon is more than 50 years old.

They didn't just dust off old Saturn V rockets and vacuum tube flight computers for Artemis.

Everything is new. So it is being tested in incremental missions just as the original Apollo missions were.

 

[eric_erosfan]

And they are back home.

 

[Lazaran]

They didn't just dust off old Saturn V rockets and vacuum tube flight computers for Artemis.

Everything is new. So it is being tested in incremental missions just as the original Apollo missions were.

Not totally accurate:

Artemis has scavenged significant parts of the shuttle program to facilitate the mission.

 

[Wilson23]

In his first term, Trump asked NASA if a Mars expedition could be done while he was present. Told that was impossible, he lost interest. It has to be something sexy -- like the Space Force, which is really nothing but a reorganization of the Air Force's Unified Space Command.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Not totally accurate:

Artemis has scavenged significant parts of the shuttle program to facilitate the mission.

Watching the live splashdown now. Thought they were taking quite a long time for the divers to open the capsule door, but they're out safe now. It's been decades since I watched a splashdown, didn't think I'd see one again in my lifetime.

 

[eric_erosfan]

Watching the live splashdown now. Thought they were taking quite a long time for the divers to open the capsule door, but they're out safe now. It's been decades since I watched a splashdown, didn't think I'd see one again in my lifetime.

Isn't SpaceX a splashdown return? I was too young to remember Apollo.

 

[Lazaran]

Watching the live splashdown now. Thought they were taking quite a long time for the divers to open the capsule door, but they're out safe now. It's been decades since I watched a splashdown, didn't think I'd see one again in my lifetime.

To tell you the truth, this whole Artemis mission seems rather… tired?

A whole lot of “been there, done that” vibes for some of us old enough to remember. (I am happy that the kiddos get to experience something we enjoyed OVER FIFTY YEARS AGO…)

For me, the shuttle was new, the Mars robot rovers were new, some of the space telescope missions were new, and SpaceX, etc, ("private" launch systems) were new. I enthusiastically celebrated all of those advancements in the field of space exploration / science, but Artemis will have to deliver A LOT more in short order to get me excited.

Artemis currently seems like a lame remake(?) of Apollo. I suppose an Artemis mission that establishes a moon base would change my attitude, but when (if ever) is that going to ACTUALLY happen???

 

[Wilson23]

 

[gxnn]

Mars? Moon, ya say?

Child, I’ve sat many a day in this porch rocker and watched the sun dip below the treeline, night after night, decade after decade, now growing closer to a century of time. Even now, as an old man leaning back in my creaking wicker chair, a glass of iced tea sweating in my hand, I’d like you to watch that steady, bright pinprick of light—the International Space Station—track silently across a backdrop of the Milky Way.

My voice isn’t as strong as it once was. It’s worn, low, and gravelly, like stones shifting in a riverbed. But don’t take that raspiness as a sign of dementia or a lack of new-age technology. No sir. I’m not an old fogy.

Look at your creation go, my child! She’s a marvel, isn't she? Moving seventeen thousand miles an hour while we sit here listening to the crickets. I’m not blind to the beauty of what you’ve built up there, son. I know you see a frontier. I know you see the future of the species written in that cold vacuum.

But I want you to look down for a second. Right here, past the porch railing. You smell that? That’s damp earth. It’s the smell of things growing—and things rotting.

You tell me we need a base on the Moon to 'preserve the light of consciousness.' But I look at the ledger, and I see a 'sucker’s tax.' We’re paying the gold price today for lead results. Every decade, you fellas make the previous mission look like child’s work. If we wait fifty years, the technology will catch up to our dreams and make Mars a Sunday drive. So why the rush? Why buy the most expensive, slowest version of the future today when the basement is flooding right now?

I’m not against the stars, son. I’m against the ego. A satellite that warns a farmer of a hurricane before it wipes out his life’s work? That’s a tool. I’ll buy you a dozen of those. But a footprint on a dusty red rock? That’s just a very expensive souvenir. Ya know that $500 billion ya pining fer for that Mars dream? Well, consider that it would also pay for all the universal vocational/technical training for an entire generation. Imagine the exponential generational wealth that would create. How many will directly benefit from that Mars dream: a handful of billionaires, probably.

Kid, we’re trying to build a roof on a house that doesn't even have a foundation yet. You want to save humanity? Then give a man the latitude to think. A hungry man can’t wonder about the cosmos; he’s too busy wondering where the next meal is coming from. He’s struggling for survival and losing perspective. But you take that same man, you feed his children, you give them a schoolhouse and a doctor... suddenly, you’ve grown a scientist. You’ve grown a thinker.

If you want to help the farmer, give the money to the farmer. Don't throw it at the moon and hope a few crumbs fall back down to the field.

There’s a moral weight to a dollar, son. It represents someone’s sweat, someone’s time. And right now, you’re thinking, let’s mine the stars for minerals while letting the greatest resource we have—human intelligence—rot in the ground due to neglect.

Let’s get the plumbing working first. Let’s get the kids fed and the books opened. Once this house is finally in order, and the cost of the trip doesn't require us to ignore the suffering at our feet... then, and only then, can we talk about adding a skylight.

Until then, the greatest discovery you could make isn't out there. It’s right here. It’s figuring out how to be neighbors before we try to be Martians."

Ya got me to thinkin’, about my priorities, kid, askin’ myself, did I raise ya right?

This Gettysburg-like speech deserves a 13-minute session at TED.com or at the lecture hall of any prestigious universities across the United States of America.

 

[73Seahawks]

The Artemis II crew has broken the record for furthest human travel from Earth.

Great human achievements when you keep MAGAcunts away.

I missed the special coverage last night due to watching "Perry Mason" on FETV Dish Network Channel 82.