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Musk realized at the last minute that NASA is one of his (SpaceX’s) biggest customers! Whew that was a close one there!
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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Nah, it was just blatantly bad optics.
Lol optics? The only thing they care less about is us.
Both
Yay, I guess.
At this point even when they do something I like, killing the penny for example, makes me sus
"The penny is abolished! We still need to complete all transactions with exact change though. If your transaction ends in a 0.01, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, or 9, just pay your bill using TrumpCents, the only cryptocurrency approved for payments to/from Treasury, IRS, Social Security, and Medicare! TrumpCents: they just make sense."
“They did it in Superman 2”
Imagine the morale there. No one’s going to give a fuck there now, and fair enough.
Just make a a rocket for space tourism for all the US administration and billionaire friends. With all those workers still at NASA that project should be realized in like 6 months. 4 months, if Elons taking care of efficiency.
You're talking one way, right? It wouldn't even take that long if all you need to do is make sure it gets to space and doesn't come back.
"Efficiency" under Musk is an 80% chance of components to work as expected.
We think airplanes crashing is bad for PR. A Nasa failure being credited to Trump would be catastrophic.
Why? Nothing sticks to Trump. Nothing bad that happens is going to be his fault, ever, in the glazed eyes of his moronic followers. He’s firing a bunch of educated weenies? Nice! Got ‘em. That’ll teach them to think they’re smarter than everyone else. Who’s a rocket scientist now?!
Meanwhile at the space station... Stranded astronauts desperately build a parachute using their clothes, duct tape (the good stuff, not that home depot crap) and USB cables. They must make the hard decision to decide who should jump and who should remain in space.... Forever!
“D’oH!”
If you jump off of the space station you would just keep circling the Earth. Even if you had a parachute.
You'd deorbit eventually, but the parachute probably wouldn't help you at that point.
Is it worse to go sideways into the atmosphere or straight down?
(Assuming you had the however many years of oxygen with you to make the journey, etc.)
I assume it would be better to just stay on the station and enjoy the sunsets and moonrises and I bet you get random eclipses too
Just asking because… if I have the oxygen maybe I could use it to lower my velocity of orbit or whatever speed that high is called until I fall straight down.
I don’t know how velocity works if I was going sideways at 17,000 mph and I sprayed the oxygen in front of me I would probably start to fall faster immediately that’s weird gravity and shit, I don’t know the correlation between gravity and speed
10 mph per second … per second? It accelerates so maybe close enough
Flip flop fuck faces
Not the EPA, not the Dept. of Education, but NASA, the place they’ve been cutting the funding for 40 years. It really is the Nerd Reich.
Nah these aren't nerds, they don't make or do anything aside from spending insane amounts of money to make even more insane amounts of money.
They probably agreed to cooperate with Trump's immigration crackdown. Wait no, that's our crooked mayor.
Asteroid is like "ok I'll go back down to 2.3%, but don't try that again"
For a while It looked like "giant meteor" was going to have a chance.