Matthew Skelton
Another Angry WomanWhen they go round the moon, the Artemis astronauts will be completely out of contact for 40 minutes. What's the single funniest (yet feasible) thing they could do when they get back in touch?
imo for a totally feasible one, it's speaking exclusively in klingon or some other fictional language and getting increasingly frustrated when mission control don't understand what you're saying
With a little prep (bringing makeup) I reckon you could probably set up a passable Event Horizon-style tableau
Will Deakin@stavvers I was thinking goggly eyes and a cosmic toasted bagel à la "everything everywhere all at once"
ShnoofleBear /ʃnuːfɛlbɛːr/@stavvers Or just wear monkey-masks
Third spruce tree on the left<screech of static> Liberate.... me
Integrity, this is Houston. Say again?
<static> Liberate..... te tutamet... ex inferis
Integrity.. Houston.... uh.. is everything ok?
Yup! Everything fine!
Jamie Gaskins@tezoatlipoca @stavvers Came to the replies to make this reference, glad to see it's already here 😄
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.@stavvers Yeah, with prep, I think some makeup job could have been funny.
I'd go with just "aging" all the team members 20 years or so.
Ruby Jones@stavvers I still have my Klingon Dictionary! I could help!
⠵⠻⠷⠕⠭ 🍥🍉⚪🌹@stavvers Ha! I was going to say speak backwards because ... time anomaly? idk
Robee? Na! 🌈@stavvers There was some movie where someone lands on a mirror earth where everyone’s organs are on the opposite sides, because the mirror earth is hidden behind the sun in the same orbit but 180 degrees out of phase. 🤔
Stuck HereHa! I remember that movie. I thought the espionage bit with the camera eyeball and the spy spinning the eyeball in different fluids to develop the film was the coolest.
Even better was the airplane that unloaded the passenger compartment completely into the airport. No need to rush the aisle way.
@MyWoolyMastadon @stavvers Are we talking about the same movie? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Far_Side_of_the_Sun
Yes. I'm sure it was a highly edited version shown on the regular as a Saturday matinee TV program a few times a year when I was growing up.
And yes, the airplanes and the spaceship had that Thunderbirds esthetic.
Richard Ash@stavvers I'd be lazy and just sneak Slide Whistles on and use them to reply
pfriedma
Me@carlog simple, effective, 10/10
bellegraylane
Chèvre Mousse@stavvers "We have wonderful news. We have met representatives from a peaceful extraterrestrial society. They have an important message for the future of humanity: stop using Microsoft Outlook."
@stavvers And since everybody involved is a huge math nerd by design, I would also suggest: add 2iπ to every number they have to transmit to earth (I promise to non-math nerds, this is a hilarious joke)
@legendarybassoon this is legit AMAZING
M.S. Bellows, Jr.@stavvers @legendarybassoon English major here, so I had to look it up. Yes, that's pretty darn funny! (Also beautiful. I think beautiful is the right adjective.)
Euler's identity - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
Dickon Hood@stavvers Play dead.
Hedders
Jim P.
scy@stavvers Sing the German national anthem?
Okay, no, that's rather dark.
Wear t-shirts with the cover of Pink Floyd's 1973 album?
Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET@stavvers
CAPCOM: "Artemis, welcome back! Please give us a status update."
ARTEMIS COMMANDER, glancing up from a hand of cards: "We'll be with you in a sec; just let us finish this hand."
Andrew Deacon@msbellows @stavvers ARTEMIS COMMANDER, I bid 3 No Trumps...
Charlie Stross@stavvers Get back in contact by saying, "THIS IS THE VOICE OF THE MYSTERONS …"
... Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission...We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical... You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits.
Oggie
Angela Glansbury 🚽
ein kleines z
Totts
Michael Cook
NormanDunbar
Kim Possible 
Helena@Hellybootwader oh BEAUTIFUL
Johan Diederik@stavvers What is 40 minutes? When my wife and I are sailing at the North Sea heading Norway, we lack radio contact for a few days. We feel free in this period. Nobody around you. Precious moments to us😎
climbertobby40 min is also nothing in terms of caving expeditions 😂
Cheryl Morgan@stavvers ask “Is he dead yet?”
@stavvers Speak all sentences backwards. Would only have required some practice.
@foobarsoft @stavvers All the good ideas really are taken
spanghero@spanghero @stavvers oh! What havoc could be wrought with a swanee-whistle
MidgePhoto@stavvers
Thank the President for her leadership?
Thank the President for her leadership?
Alexander Dyas@stavvers All be finishing McDonalds meals.
@stavvers Iranian flag draped behind them
𒀭 enkidu 🍤@stavvers say they’ve seen oil/the Epstein files on the far side etc. or clangers/soup dragon
@stavvers Dressed in ESA gear
felix (grayscale) 🐺
Weasel