I’m glued to the Artemis coverage because it is so unlike anything we get to see in the news these days: cool shit done by smart, super competent people working together closely. Positive vibes but not treacly sentiment. Also (probably) a glowing alien god of peace about to emerge from the capsule.

April 11, 2026 - 01:27 UTC

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When Ebert and Siskel reviewed Apollo 13 they noted how refreshing it was in that era as it depicted the entire team effort, and not just one balloon animal looking white guy who wins by blowing everything up.
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I'm amazed I haven't seen anyone make a joke about the Fantastic Four origin story in all this.

There's even four of them!
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Reid looked suspiciously stretchy to me
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Reminds me of how the daily news diet we get impacts us more than we sometimes realize.
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That one post about it feeling like it came from an alternate dimension where the last 10 years never happened and we chose joy instead of fear and hatred really hit hard.
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yeah. despite the fact that I’d rather see the money spent on earth, I think we still need to do stuff like this to remind the public that we can accomplish amazing things with science and experts. and I’d much rather see NASA doing it than billionaires.
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Pumaman mask? 😁
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No idiotic talk of lethality or going kinetic. Nice.
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this cost us just under $100 billion stretched out over 2012-2025, which is barely 11% of what we spent on the defense department just in 2025. we could live in a very, very different world if the numbers were shuffled around!
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My wife has never shown any interest in astrophysics buts she’s followed this entire mission and has been staring at this bobbing capsule for 90 minutes.
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I would love that.
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Kinda holding out hope they brought back the space virus that turns people into Ninja Turtles/Mutation City levels of cool furries, opposed to Isle of Dr. Moreau level furries.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency_porn
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They crack the hatch and Cmdr Wiseman jumps out onto the raft wearing a gorilla suit 🤞
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CAPSULE!
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I'm still crossing my fingers for that last one.
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Explaining to my kids that they have to be so cautious opening the capsule doors cuz of space vampires
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bsky.app/profile/unclefishbits.bsky.social/post/3mj6qxxok7s2e
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