Az3d ago

i love how space travel went from Star Trek: The Next Generation to Deep Space 9 in the space of one (1) lunar mission.

Apollo program: boldly going where nobody has been before, everyone is a decorated pilot putting their lives on the line in the most advanced tech.

Artemis II: shitters broken, "I have two versions of Outlook and neither of them are working".

Show threadAz3d ago

that 00's joke has gone from cringe OS fanboy wars to Utopia levels of uncomfortable relevance:

> Why do astronauts use Linux?
> Because you can't open windows in space.

Show threadAz2d ago
50 years on and space travel has become the techno utopia we have always wanted, as summed up in this quote from NASA's Artemis II livestream
Show threadSupermoosie1d ago

@az
Remember Artemis II came about because first term Trump wanted to relieve his youth by putting people back on the moon.

So NASA hand to cancel a whole heap of actual science programs, learning about the earth, planets, our solar system and universe to make a bus to take meat to the moon for TV.

Show threadpfriedma
@SuperMoosie

It's more accurate to say that Trump didn't cut it along with other things. It's not like this was a Trump project though

SLS was mandated by Congress in 2011 to replace the Shuttle and lunar exploration was always part of the design parameters for the spacecraft.
@az
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Show threadpfriedma9h ago
@SuperMoosie
Like yes the "Artemis" program was authorized by Trump but like most things he tries to take credit for, it was something already in the works
@az