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  1. Sorry folks, but a US District Court Judge has rules it’s maybe unconstitutional, so the astronauts have to go back to space (from Waters World last night).

    1. Stolen from the always humorous Babylon Bee.

      BTW … the DM’s headline about the wildly successful, joyous rescue of our stranded astronauts was anything but positive. There wasn’t a single positive word in the headline but it was ALL negative citing the crippling health and woeful recovery it will take for the astronauts. Every word a negative. Ohhhhhhhh mommmmaaaaaaaa … why did Musk expose the astronauts to earth’s gravity!!??? How dare he !!??

  2. Elon Musk told Joe Rogan that Biden delayed the Space X rescue mission “for political purposes”.

  3. Ha!
    Leftards will be complaining about our gas getting cheaper once they regrow enough hair to light on fire again.

  5. I watched NASA’s coverage of it yesterday. There were two on-air commentators, one from NASA and the other from SpaceX.

    I found the presentation of those two quite irritating. They were a pair of valley girls who yakked incessantly. I’m sure that there wasn’t 15 seconds during the entire presentation in which they weren’t jabbering. (At least we were spared exclamations of “Awesome!”)

    Those two could learn a few lessons from the past. Jack King was the “voice of Kennedy launch control”. His presentation informed listeners as to what what going on, even being technical at times, such as announcing when the Saturn V launch sequence was being controlled by computer. It was also exciting and suspenseful as one knew that one had a ringside seat to history being made. But he only spoke when necessary and, when he didn’t, listeners could hear what was being said on NASA’s public loop.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UExTN3_UOIY

    Similarly, during the early shuttle launches, NASA’s Hugh Harris used his words sparingly, letting the proceedings speak for themselves. Like King, one knew that something exciting and amazing was about to happen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUqZGmnQdEs

    Even when CBC Radio used to cover those missions, there were announcers such as Rex Loring who spoke only when necessary and allowed listeners to hear what was going on. (“Let’s listen to NASA.”)

    Then again, back then, audiences were assumed to be intelligent and could comprehend much of what was happening.

    1. Err. Maybe you haven’t watched much of the SpaceX and NASA launches to see the total crop of commentators.

      Yesterday, the SpaceX gal was Kate Tice and her delivery is great, very professional. The NASA Valley Girl on the other hand, was terrible, barely able to accurately read from the script in front of her.

      Now, if you want to talk about terrible space commentators – see SpaceX’s Jessie Anderson whose delivery is annoying AND she insists on having a stupid unprofessional hairstyle. For NASA, you will vomit when you watch Megan Cruz, who pins the annoying meter all the way past the red line.

      For other excellent hosts, see Derrol Nail (NASA), Ariane Cornell (BLUE ORIGIN), and John Insprucker (SpaceX)

      Yes, I’ve watched a LOT of launch webcasts.

      1. I’m not familiar with the various commentators as I sometimes watch a variety of sites that have provide coverage, such as Space Affairs and NASA Spaceflight. Unfortunately, it seems that one site is as bad as the next one when it comes to endless empty jabbering.

        Jack King, as I recall, had been a radio announcer before he worked for NASA and Hugh Harris was a NASA public affairs officer, so both knew how to present information to the general public. The dean of NASA announcers was John “Shorty” Powers (the so-called “voice of Mercury Control”) and he had been a USAF officer who was eventually involved with public affairs for the Air Force.

  7. A lot of news articles about this either omit Musk’s name completely or only mention it towards the end. They can’t bring themselves to give him any credit.

  8. I’m surprised it didn’t receive more coverage; Canadian news sites had nothing. My husband and I were captivated and I had my laptop in the kitchen while I was preparing dinner. It may not have been the moon landing but it was still fascinating to observe. I guess the media doesn’t want to report anything good Elon accomplishes. Not anymore, at least.

  9. Big fan of DOGE, but Elon’s car in space is a joke. Further, what did the “astronauts” eat for 9 months? In other words, how much food stock and provisions are stowed away “just in case” on a “spacecraft” that has no extra “space?”

    We’re being played on so many levels it’s hard to determine what’s genuine stupidity vs artificial “intelligence.”

    2. Holy crap, are you ever misinformed!

      With that number of gross misunderstandings, you’re not worth explaining it all to you.

    1. if the earth is flat, does it have an edge? if it has an edge do you fall off? if you fall off do you just sort of ‘drift off’ into the air, or do you fall down? how far? is there a bottom to the edge? does that mean the earth is shaped like a rectangular cube shape? or a cylinder? is the side a whole different world?

      questions questions. or maybe a sphere floating in space orbiting the sun due to gravity? which explanation requires fewer ‘rules’ and thus more likely correct?

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