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Artemis II successfully splashes down, completing historic lunar mission
https://ground.news/article/artemis-ii-successfully-splashes-down-completing-historic-lunar-mission_a5ce35?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share
Heavychunkymoisture
Not goin lie. It felt pretty good
Kats8652
I love spacetravel and one month ago I would have been very excited for this....but then, you know. There was other distracting news.
cyberninjaru
I wish I could care. We don’t care about peaceful, non-destructive living on Earth, so what’s the point of space travel? We’ll just spread like the cancer we are. And make the galaxy worse.
batcountry808
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walnutbreath
Weird scientific fact: it's much more efficient to launch an object out of the solar system entitely than to launch something into the sun.
KawaiiInari
It honestly felt like my Apollo 11. They may not have landed on the moon, but it was the first time I got to see a manned capsule return home. I let the tears come.
Edgarflaps
First step done. Next moon base and then mars.
cyno01
Then North Korea steals a yttrium asteroid...
Owl2017
I think there is someone working on that
Hashbrown123
Then the Earth/Mars War.
Alistairetheblu
What are those percentages under the headline?
liquidriddle
The link I provided is to Ground News. They present stories from many news outlets and show bias/factually ratings. The bar shown here represents the kind of coverage this story is receiving. This news is being covered by all kinds of news outlets, 52% are reporting in a centered way. I've found it to be a really helpful tool.
graehall
Seeing them happy and safe and smiling aboard the ship made my happy cry - they're back and they're ok and they're amazing!
MinisterCross
Absolutley amazing!
Heavychunkymoisture
Rock on. Same with me!
Osgarth
As much as I respect the ingenuity and bravery this took, I cannot find any joy in NASA's endeavors anymore. I do not trust the US to lead the way in anything and use their position even remotely as a force for good at this point. I'd rather that whole country just fade into obscurity. Any US victory, whether militarily, culturally or scientifically is bad news in my book.
FelonyRaptor
It's the 60's space race all over again, but this time with even less science goals.
Jamesstin
Maybe but our weapons esp our nuclear weapons won't just disappear. The US breaks down and I promise that there will be a Christian nationalist state made and we do not want a hostile nation nearby, ruining our geographic blessings
RadioFloyd
Exactly. Ignore us at your own peril. Going away isn’t going to happen, either we progress or regress. Isolationism won’t produce the desired outcome.
southoffrance
This seems less about science and exploration and more about a race with China to claim chunks of the moon for mineral resources. You don't spend that amount of money to obtain knowledge that you can get more cheaply and easily from landing unmanned craft on the moon.
moofunk
You can't obtain all knowledge from unmanned craft. If that were the case, Apollo would not have existed and robotic landers would have been sent there by the dozens in the past 50 years. Sure, send robots, even extremely advanced ones to the Moon, but to do the actual research, you need a base there. One PhD level scientist can do as much as 100 robotic missions, operate autonomously and quickly.
kgfinkel
Cue the conspiracy theorists, flat earthers, and other lunatic deniers.
FelonyRaptor
NGL, sending folks to fly around the moon just to distract from the Epstein files is going the extra mile.
BeaverOnFire
The whole reason for this mission to the Moon was so that they would be able to generate images using human powered AI cameras in Hollywood to hide the Jewish space lasers on the moon that made the frogs gay. 🤔
MightyIink
I tried watching the re-entry with friends last night but one of them kept getting angry and claimed the stream was AI generated, he swore he saw one of the boats moving backwards in the footage and now I've lost a friend.
SerialChickenLover
They’ve never had to wait for a cue. That diarrhea has been spilling out of their brains for decades.
MeeseOnABeam
i know a flat earther distantly, once i had to meet him to drop something off and was wearing a nasa hoodie, he had to tell me that nasa stands for "not a space agency". i bet he was really proud of himself for coming up with that one.
SOLARvsFACISM
Oh, you're one of those people who believe in the "moon". s/
ID1746
Already happening sadly, most popular fake theories are: Green Screen (with AI vids to support sadly), never left Earth (stuff doesn't float 'right' is the excuse, forgetting everything in space gets velcroed); Its AI (supported by AI vids).
I hate this timeline
Heavychunkymoisture
There was no Ai when yuri gargarin went to space.
ChelVanin
Don’t be a Debbie Downer
Heavychunkymoisture
By the way it’s official. I can’t have children
Hashbrown123
*sad but funny trombone*