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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Soon we will be able to sing again "Whitey's on the moon"

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 103 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're too late, they already left.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 85 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

most elaborate April fools prank this year

[–] WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If they can fake the moon landing they can fake a launch.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (6 children)

If they can fake launch, can they fake dienner, too?

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[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago

They tricked the Astronauts into thinking they are going to the moon, when in reality they are aiming for Jupiter. Good luck nerds!

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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have now seen 2 moon launches live. Will I live to see them actually set foot back on the moon again. Who knows.

[–] TaterTot@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

I Fuckin hope so Louie.

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Only if you have a really good telescope

[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In 1969, the cold war filled the hearts of the world with dread. Today, we live in times that echo this sentiment.

The launch of 1969 was made with the hope of a better future, and though we cocked it up a drainpipe the first time, maybe we'll take the right path and echo the sentiment "for all mankind".

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 week ago (30 children)

This launch included a bunch of “American superiority” drivel, and was done on a rocket that is unsustainable and uses leftover parts from the last millennium.

I wish they’d gone with “for all mankind” — instead they went with “America America” even though one of the mission specialists is Canadian and the module was made in cooperation with the ESA.

[–] HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago

Yeah I kinda cringed on that "god bless america" speech before the launch. Isn't there 2 Canadians on board and a big part of the Orion was made/designed by ESA? All they got "and our partners around the world" in that speech.

I'm happy that "we" are going back there but this propaganda sillyness is disappointing. I know its always been a part of governments doing space projects, after all I think the only reason "we" are going back there is because the Chinese are going back there. The disappointing thing is that when I was a kid I really thought we would be over ourselves by now, but turns out that seems to be impossible and we are just going back to throwing rocks at each others. Plaaargh.

Anyway. Cool launch, that thing jumped off the pad as if someone kicked it in the nuts. Impressive stuff.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It could be worse. It could be Trump claiming all the glory for himself and jinxing it to miserably fail like everything else that orange pedophile clown touches.

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[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They go in search of human rights

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I've learned anything from realistic space fiction, it's that they won't find any up there.

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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This seems like a pretty big deal, why am I only now finding out about this

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 33 points 1 week ago

It was a beautiful launch

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh what's next, will Spain send three wooden boats to the New World, take a few pictures, and come back?

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[–] aeharding@vger.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I forgot I received this a few years ago from volunteering… let’s go Artemis!

Portrait signed from Victor Glover

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

America, fast going backwards, has today reached ~~1969~~ 1968, assuming that this mission succeeds.

(Edit: this is not even a moon landing so more Apolo 8 than Apolo 11).

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[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump said they’re going further than we’ve ever gone before! Checkmate Apollo moon landing believers!

[–] zombyreagan@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Technically he is right about this.

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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Very often, I was like "I don't think I need to watch this shuttle launch, they might have to scrub it" and then they'd actually launch and I was was like "damn, I should have watched that shuttle launch".

So I was like "naaah, I don't think I need to watch this launch, they might scrub it" and now it looks like they've launched and I was like "shit, I fell for that again, I'm really stupid"

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

God speed!

(As an atheist, and just thankful despite Elon and Trump's best efforts)

I'm glad there is diversity and Canadian representation, btw!

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago

As an atheist

It's ok to say God speed without clarifying religious denomination. I'm not sure many people here care.

[–] Jayve@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

They went to hide the Epstein files on the far side of the Moon.

[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Sometimes I regret that if I had been more of a motivated person in my younger years, I could be in space.

But also, I know that given my physical state and brain damage and such, it was a dead dream as soon as my first stroke happened, two days after birth.

Still, a woman can dream.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago

Saw it from KSC actually, was great.

[–] melfie@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

SLS has gotten a lot of well-deserved hate for being an expendable money pit. All that aside, damn, it lifted off with humans in it and off to the moon! There’s no other currently available rocket that can do that, including Starship.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Good luck, guys. Hope it's a smooth ride.

[–] Atomic@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I wonder how Flatearthers are going to explain this one.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 2 points 6 days ago

I would guess they'd explain it the same way they explain other rocket launches.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

whew. i've rolled the dice on my life, but i've never gotten on a boeing spacecraft. and the shitter's already clogged.

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[–] 33550336@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What scientific benefits will this mission bring?

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I'm pretty sure they are doing some studies into immune systems in space, stress/sleep/cognition of astronauts and all that. From what I've read in the papers they will be taking regular saliva samples in preparation to do a lunar south pole mission... where they are worried about radiation? I dunno the specifics this is arm chair science on my part. I'm sure that one day when we finally send a man to uranus they can sample his saliva and figure out what's going on down there if you know what I mean.

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[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

It's mostly about testing the vessel used, for future actually useful missions.

There are some things they're doing, but it's scientifically not very much they couldn't do with probes.

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