• 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    You know, I was confused when I heard about the “all women” crew. I was like, “how forward after all the craziness happening.”

    But it’s just more rich fucks. And how fucking tone deaf. Read the fucking room. “You’re all losing jobs and being denied rights? But what if a billionaire took a millionaire into space? Wouldn’t that be inspiring!”

  • Squorlple@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Somebody’s been watching Season 3 of Agents of SHIELD and thinking it’s a documentary

  • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
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    18 days ago

    I might just be seeing things, but do those flight suits have flared bottoms?

    Bezos has gone too far, he must be stopped.

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      18 days ago

      Omg, you are right! That is just the height of arrogance since the only way they could actually provide any protection in the case of a decompression, you know, the thing that is the only job of an extra atmospheric flight suit, would be if there was an air tight sleeve attached to the boots. That would make the pants just fashion and wasted weight being launched. The extra kg of fabric would not add a lot to the fuel costs, but it would be measurable.

      One group of billionaires went squish under the ocean, another is going to end up finding out how they make astronaut food in space.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    That’s a pretty great coincidence. Upright you’re an astronaut, but flip and you’re the agent of the devil

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    18 days ago

    This is the clearest case I have ever seen of pareidolia I have ever seen, and I saw people talking about sphinxes on Mars.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Welcome to my YouTube channel. Today we’re going to learn how to draw Baphomet.

    First draw the profile of a woman’s face. Then repeat 5 more times. Now draw a spaceship taking off in the middle. Turn your drawing upside down and you’ll have a perfect rendition of the famed occult deity.

    Rock on, and don’t forget to like and subscribe!

  • Battle_Maiden@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Remember when NASA was gonna send their first all-female crew but they cancelled last minute because they only had one small space suit? I remember.

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        16 days ago

        You’re right, I did misremember a little bit. It was actually a “all-female” space walk that was cancelled. Which included two women. It was cancelled because they only had one small spacesuit for the space walk. For all of two women.

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          Well, the walk did finally happen, so there were adequate suits, although one of the astronauts had trouble with the suit she was initially assigned.

          You have to remember that of the 18 original suits, only 11 still exist, and something like as few as 4 might be on the station at a time. Also, the suits were originally intended to return to Earth often (shuttle days), but now are kept on the ISS longer and are maintained by the astronauts themselves. Given the losses of some suits, the limited nature of the maintenance, and the limit on how many are kept in orbit at a time, it isn’t scandalous that sometimes astronauts find themselves to be either too large or too small for the suits at hand.