Mark KristenssonMay 30
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source: @hisham_hm

https://mastodon.social/@hisham_hm/112833820254599887

Show threadjan guerillahandwerker ullrichMay 30
@nblr i love the iss just like worf loves the enterprise
Show threadtraecerMay 30
@young_ullrich @nblr will whatever replaces the ISS have additional phaser arrays and torpedoes...?
Show threaddexternemrodMay 31

@traecer

@young_ullrich @nblr

Maybe a cloaking device? 👉👈

Show threadclewMay 30

Well put.

I am bemused by reading… the alt text to a photo of a printout of a toot of a screencap of a comment?

Maybe if I print it out and file it in a closet
labeled “Beware of the Leopard”

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Show threadMans RJun 3
@clew @nblr https://xkcd.com/763/
Workaround

xkcd
Show threadMans RJun 3
@clew @nblr Also https://xkcd.com/1863/
Screenshots

xkcd
Show threadMikeMay 30
@nblr I love the sentiment here, and I fully agree, but I need to ask: Why is it printed and taped to what appears to be a bathroom wall?
Show thread~nMay 30
@IncredulousMike As with all why questions… why not?
Show threadMikeMay 30
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Show threaddklMay 31

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@IncredulousMike

No. The real question is: Why is it not laminated?

Show threadAssimilateborgMay 30
@nblr I think there is checks at sea if a rocket can fly. So if a boat is in the exclusion zone they cannot start. So just one thing to do to save the ISS: block the deorbit ship to ever leave the pad by having tons of boats in the exclusion zone.
Show threadLeelooMay 30

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That was the most confusing thing I have read in a long time.

Half way through: Oh, the ISS, not ISIS🤯😱

Show threadGeraintLlanfranchetaMay 30
@leeloo @nblr lol
Show threadGeraintLlanfranchetaMay 30
@leeloo @nblr (still musing about your misread and your thought chain ... :)
Show threadOrdovicianMay 30
@nblr This is why the terrorist attacks of 09/11/2001 caused so much harm. The concept that everything was right in the world, everyone was the United States' friend. We had won the Cold War and then terrorist attacks happened. All at once, the euphoria from post Cold War was gone in an instant. There were entire nations that wanted United States dead!
The ISS is still one of those left overs from that pre-911 age! When everything was still right in the world!
Show threadLostSettlerMay 30

@Joseph_Krebs have you not watched True Lies? America knew how it was perceived in the world as far back as 1994 (if not forever before that) Yet they did nothing. And worse, used 911 as an excuse to trash their own standing in the world.

Now you have a president with a Russian hand up his ass.

👏 👏. 👏

Show threadOrdovicianMay 31
@lostsettler I don't think it was within the public consciousness. This has always been the way with United States for a very long time. How many administrations, not just US but UK, thought Russia could be sequestered and controlled. United States is not very conscious of world events.
Show threadOrdovicianMay 31
@lostsettler And basing an accounting of real world events on an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie? No, I have not seen it and certainly wouldn't attribute any real world scenario from such a movie!
Come on! Stop treating movies as real life!
Show threadLostSettlerMay 30

@nblr "the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization, because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization, which is of course what this is all about. "

Agent Smith, The Matrix, 1999.

Show threadWeird SocksMay 30
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How soul crushing it has been growing up GenX and after. Just awful
Show threadFat_FarangMay 31

@nblr Society discards old people, so why not old space stations?

I feel the same way about Hubble. Absolutely no loyalty or sense of pride if they just let it burn up in the atmosphere instead of fixing it (it's not even broken, just running out of fuel). Trillion of dollars for tax breaks but no money to save our first, and still functioning, eye in the sky. The Deep Field photo alone is enough to justify her salvation.

Show threadMike J👹🐀 🤘🏻May 31
@nblr The shuttle was built so it could build the ISS. The ISS was built to give the shuttle some place to go.
Show threadTheresacityinmymindMay 31

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Yup, Elon should have been treated like a defense contractor but for NASA. He could sell things to NASA but not compete with NASA.

Show threadsu_liamMay 31
@nblr This is kinda like how they’re scrapping US democracy. And again, no, they’re not replacing with a new, better, freer, more just democracy. They’re replacing it with a privatized, deregulated, kleptocratic police state under an autocracy. Fuck. That.
Show threadHenryk PlötzMay 31
@nblr I am "I watched '2010 - The Year We Made Contact' on TNT Classic Movies which shared a channel with KiKa after 23 hours" old. It already had this beautiful notion that scientists in space would say fuck our leaders and collaborate across national boundaries.
Show threadDysphoricUnicorn🪿May 31
@nblr a while back I said that the ISS is what gives me hope for humanity. The next day I learned that they were planning on scrapping it

I'm not old enough to remember the time of optimism, but you can still see its effect in the way the ISS is run
Show threadPhilMay 31
@nblr There was a question from someone, who I think was born in the late nineties or even after that, why growing up in the nineties is supposed to be positive. My answer was that the future looked like it could be good.
Now, the future prospect is the never-ending multi-crisis and cyberpunk.
Show thread.:fyrfli:.May 31

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... the new robber barons are the techbro billionaires cosplaying as space moguls, Boeing builds airplanes with pieces literally falling off the sky, Israel has killed 40,000 people in Gaza, Russia keeps bombing Ukraine, and a reality show rapist is leading the US ...

is just so accurate i want to cry

Show threaddr_barnowlMay 31

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I remember the IMAX 3D documentary they did about the ISS, with Tom Cruise narrating it. Felt so hopeful and full of wonder.