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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 12 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

i feel like the launch was a distraction to iran's war, it is very convenient it happened at the same time.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 33 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

🎡"Once the rocket goes up, who cares where it comes down, that's not my department." Says Wernher Von Braun 🎡

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 13 points 5 hours ago

🎡"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." 🎡

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

crazy Tom Lehrer died just few months ago in july, he was 97

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

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.

Also, "thank God I'm off that godawful fucking planet, even for just a little while" - Artemis crew member

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

sending a rocket around the moon to collide on enemy territory on the way back is what i call a pro gamer move

[–] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

β€”Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

β€”Bradley Lovell, The Looker

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

I read Gravity's Rainbow. I'm pretty sure that's not in there, but it might as well have been.

Absolutely bonkers novel.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

It'd be ironic if the crew ultimately lands in Iranian airspace.

[–] Beetschnapps@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

Just make an AI recovery. Call it Capricorn One…

[–] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip -4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

its wild watching these assholes meme and do nutella commercials while riding an ICBM research prototype over WW3

[–] Mitchie151@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

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