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[–] brandon@piefed.social 74 points 4 days ago (2 children)

People need to start refusing to do this

[–] Jikiya@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago (3 children)

As government employees, they would instantly be fired by the toddler. Im guessing theyd love to ride a rocket again.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Worth it. They already achieved their objective. They could've made a powerful statement by denying a debriefing meetup with the fascist. At all costs.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The #1 goal of this mission is to secure NASA funding for the missions to continue, #2 was systems testing. They are continuing with their mission as best they understand it. A statement against fascism from them keeps us in low earth orbit

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As someone who had some NASA associations, watching everyone bend the knee has been sickening.

[–] troglodytis@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Agreed. So has the last 50 years of space exploration

[–] ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

What we really need is for China to send someone to Mars first, and suddenly 3% of GDP will be ploughed into NASA's budget overnight.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

This administration has been actively hostile to space exploration. The only support is for moon to mars, because that fulfills billionaire sexual fantasies of ruling over Martian empires.

Projects like asteroid and Kuiper Belt exploration have been absolutely slaughtered. NASA has been cutting education and basically everything not directly connected to long term plans for Martian colonization. It’s also been cut up for parts and sold off to the highest bidder.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No. Putting a Musk stooge in charge of NASA and giving contracts to SpaceX and Amazon Origin is what will keep us in low earth orbit.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They would look like defiant heroes for five minutes. Trump does some stunt to distract from it.

Nothing changes, but three very talented people throw away their careers they have worked hard on for decades.

Two years later Trump leaves office either way.

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

I’ve got a very contagious illness of some sort

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And maybe some space walking.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I seriously doubt they were given the choice.

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world -1 points 3 days ago

Yeah they don't want to be blacklisted from future missions to the moo.....oh wait...

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 76 points 4 days ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 days ago

You know a situation is awful when it makes an astronaut question his life choices.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Looks like the smell just hit.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

"In ~~space~~the oval office no one can hear you ~~scream~~shit yourself!"

"Err, yeah they can. They can also smell it. You disgusting pants shitting, dementia riddled, mushy brained, child rapist. Fucking die."

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 52 points 4 days ago

NASA doing as it must to keep what funding it has.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 44 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Imagine studying and training for years to be a freaking astronaut just to have to listen to this orange pedophile whine about himself. The restrain I'd need to not just sucker punch the motherfucker live and walk away...

[–] Soulg@ani.social 12 points 4 days ago

You wouldn't walk very far, but I do feel the exact same way

Studying and training your whole life really. It takes decades to learn the skills needed to be an astronaut.

[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, when meeting with that orange moron, it’s especially hard for scientists to keep their cool. Do you remember when the chief pedophile said that an effective remedy for Covid was to inject yourself with disinfectant or somehow use UV radiation inside the body ... you can see here, too, from the medical professional's expression, how hard it is not to completely lose it in the face of such blatant stupidity.

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Supposing you brought UV light into the body which you can either do through the skin or, uh, in some other way"

"And I think you said you're going to test that too. Sounds interesting."

"And then I see the disinfectant knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside,"

[–] TheKingBee@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Deborah Birx takes 67 points psychic damage

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They do not want to be there.

[–] Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago

"I don't want to be on this planet anymore." "But you just came back?"

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

"It's no issue, Mr. President. Things happen. Astronauts use diapers too. We just call il to them maximum absorbency garment."

[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 15 points 4 days ago

Wish we were floating 'round our tin can

Far, above the moon

There's nothing I can do,

This pedo smells like poo...

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I'm guessing 45 minutes of pedonald rambling about how some say he practically invented space travel, that he deserves a Nobel prize in spaceship, and that he's such a genius that he could have been an astronaut but chose to be rapist instead.

[–] thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 days ago

Not heroic, would be heroic if they had killed Trump

If you get to meet Trump, not killing him is a wasted opportunity

[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 10 points 4 days ago

And no intelligent life was found

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How long before he renames Artemis rocket as the Trump Space Fleet?

[–] JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 days ago

Please don't give him any more ideas

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

One might say they're not looking too happy to be there, but 2 of them took the trouble to wear gold-colored ties...

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Gold is a complimentary color for blue, which those jackets are basically exploding with. Pretty natural pick.

Blue and gold are also navy colors, so it might just be nod to that if either was in the navy.

[–] webp@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

Could be piss-coloured

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Probably avoiding red or blue to remain apolitical.

[–] Abyssian@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

No congratulations here. Every time someone is in the room with him and it's live on air and they don't take the time to call him a baby raping limp duck little bitch they dropped the ball.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can picture them trying to get the furthest spot away from the old stinker. Same way they fought about the farthest corner of their spacecraft from Earth.

[–] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They spent 10 days in a tin can with a blocked toilet. They've had training.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I bet that still smells better than the Oval Office, on a good day

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago

they probably sprayed a ton of air fresheners before hand.

[–] manxu@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago

VISIT TO THE PLANET OF THE ORANGE MONSTER!!!