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Apparently they just let Trump talk and didn’t respond for a full minute and Trump was like “anyway you’re the best” and they still didn’t respond and Trump’s people ended the call.
The astronauts gave him the silent treatment. They could clearly hear him.
I watched it live, they did respond to his direct questions, but at some point Trump went into a monologue that didn’t end in a question, and they didn’t say anything back, keeping a silence going for an awkward amount of time until Houston asked if they are still on the line and they confirmed that yeah they heard everything. And said nothing else.
Luckiest folks in the human race. Furthest from Trump.
They could presumably be within 300 miles of him.
I wouldn’t have gone to the moon if I were them. You know they’ll have to meet the president after they get back. It’s not worth it.
totally worth it.
free ride to the moon and a chance to
killmeet the most sadistic megalomaniac in history?hell yeah, sign me the fuck up!
It ain’t free. They’re on the clock, they’re being paid.
Even better!
Vic Mackey is so done with this shit.
The two on the left imagining just never going back to earth
“oh you’re breaking up i think we’re going through a tunnel”
“Wait I think there is someone outside the airlock, we will go and check!”
Maybe they’ve got some Farscape episodes on their computers. Probably watching them enviously.
In space, no one can hear your cringe
… but we can see it.
Yeah the NASA twitch stream had to swap to emojis only.
I need a clip desperately of the chat
🤡🤡🤡
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He’s asking how young the girls in space are, and they’re thinking about all of the Sci-Fi movies where the Earth blows up and astronauts have to watch it go.
All the sci-fi movies? Can I get some recommendations?
That’s literally the plot of The Shining. It’s in Stanley Kubrick’s hidden messages from the fake moon that he invented or something.
Not a movie, but a music video for a great song
I enjoyed that, thanks!
Dr. Stone technically counts
I have a book sort of like this. SevenEves by Niel Stephenson.
The book blows up (or gets hit or something). The dist will make earth uninhabitable within a few years. I want to say Seven Years. I remeber the SevenEves title has many possible “meanings” and I think years to collapse was one.
They basically work to get as many people as they can, which isn’t many, into space working with the small crew of a (larger than ISS but not huge) space station. Including all of the logistics of food and housing.
They also have to manage it in a way as not to cause a panic because billions of people, will die. Because they literally cannot send everyone.
The first two thirds are pretty good, the lattwr third jump to the future and fallout and I hated that part, but the first part is good.
I.S.S. is based on that, there was a Cloverfield spin off that was pretty similar, too. I’m sure there are a bunch more, and I’d be interested to see them, too.
“DEFCON-4” leaps to mind (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087130/).
They are glad to have left the earth.
Am I gonna regret asking
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/LEf2ykgUrWI
Probably the best speech he’s ever made tbh.
I think they were expecting more lol
The good part of the speech took about 60 seconds, FYI. (Way longer than in that video.)
(https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2741491172 9:38:05)
Wow that was surprisingly… tame?
He knows they’re way smarter than he is, so he ducked out fast.
The mission may be called Integrity, but this part was pure Endurance.
I assume only maga astronauts (or ones who can do a convincing facsimile thereof) on the ground would be allowed in the crew.
Astronauts are highly educated and trained individuals. Not a single MAGA ding dong is qualified to go into space.
You assume incorrectly. I’ve been watching the stream for days. They named their craft Integrity, for fuck’s sake. They have been promoting messages of unity and global cooperation for the betterment of ALL humankind. Does that sound MAGA to you?
I was watching live when Trump called in, and the astronauts were clearly trying to emphasize the benefits of diversity and co-operation, and I’m quite sure none of that sunk in. Trump was too busy mispronouncing names, not knowing the difference between the name of the mission and the name of the craft, big noting his own role in funding NASA (while his administration has been actively attacking NASA) and generally waffling on because he likes to listen to himself speak.
The next call after that also had the NASA director comment something like “I’m sure this call won’t be as special as that last one” whereupon commander Wiseman burst out laughing so I’m pretty confident those involved in the mission are not in Trump’s camp. Which is to be expected, because their jobs require them to be humans with functioning brains.
Thanks for the synopsis - you’ve saved me a few braincells
