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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Because of wow. / Late Night Comic Relief Open Thread: To… the Moon, and Beyond!

Late Night Comic Relief Open Thread: To… the Moon, and Beyond!

by Anne Laurie|  February 28, 20171:13 am| 21 Comments

This post is in: Because of wow., C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Science & Technology, I Reject Your Reality and Substitute My Own

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Holy shit. SpaceX says its going to send two people around the Moon in the 4th Q of 2018.

— Eric Berger (@SciGuySpace) February 27, 2017

@SciGuySpace I'm sure it has nothing to do with NASA mulling the same thing

— brianweeden (@brianweeden) February 27, 2017

they're going to kill somebody really soon. not joking https://t.co/twGQdjvA8X

— HUNTER S. FAILSON (@Bro_Pair) February 27, 2017

@Bro_Pair they already did https://t.co/FCu6fsR7fG

— Matt J (@unigram) February 27, 2017

Business plan: Charge low fees to send people to the moon. Then ask how much they want to pay to come back.

— Ryan Teague Beckwith (@ryanbeckwith) February 27, 2017

Wonder if @ElonMusk's announcement of a billionaire moonride is at all tied to tamping down his unionbusting press: https://t.co/qmzU0j9ezV

— HUNTER S. FAILSON (@Bro_Pair) February 27, 2017

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21Comments

  1. 1.

    craigie

    February 28, 2017 at 1:22 am

    This thread has zero replies

  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    February 28, 2017 at 1:33 am

    @craigie:

    This thread has zero replies

    If you posted a thread and no one replied, did you really post it?

  3. 3.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 28, 2017 at 1:35 am

    @Jerzy Russian:
    What is the sound of one database updating?

  4. 4.

    TS

    February 28, 2017 at 1:40 am

    Business plan: Charge low fees to send people to the moon. Then ask how much they want to pay to come back.

    Had a friend who visited Egypt many moon ago. Went on a tour of the pyramids. Went way down deep into one of said pyramids & the guide said it was going to cost them $10 each to be taken back to the outside world. They had no idea if he was joking or not, but everyone paid.

  5. 5.

    Vhh

    February 28, 2017 at 1:52 am

    CNN just reported on a Fox News interview with Trump in which he whines (without providing evidence) that Obama is sabotaging his government. No, this is not a joke. He’s trying the old Stalin-vs-Trotsky gambit (or Big Brother vs Goldstein, for those wth fresh copies of Orwell’s 1984). Must be desperate for a diversion from whatever hairball will get coughed up this week. Like the yuge number of Trump voters who would lose insurance under the ACA “replacement” he will unveil. Or more viral drips on the Russia connection (his lawyer, Michael Cohen?). Or more immigration abuses. Or maybe he is really going to try the whole crazy Leninist thing Bannon dreams of. Obama’s office has been asked for comment–maybe they will provide an interview with him wearing shades bathing suit, with an IPA in hand, saying “shit, I was water skiing, man.” Anyway, sound, fury, and a new sketch for Alec and Melissa on SNL. Too bad the Republic is also at stake.

  6. 6.

    amk

    February 28, 2017 at 1:55 am

    @Vhh: guessing gutless teann didn’t push back against that pox news interview?

  7. 7.

    TheMightyTrowel

    February 28, 2017 at 1:56 am

    Since Trump is such a rich and important man, can we send him up in Musk’s tin can to the moon? I’m sure he’d like it there and it would be such an important yuge achievement.

  8. 8.

    TriassicSands

    February 28, 2017 at 1:56 am

    they’re going to kill somebody really soon.

    they already did

    “The employee died.”

    “OSHA cited SpaceX for one serious violation in this case and assessed it a $7,000 fine.”

    Wow, a $7,000 fine for killing an employee. I guess it wasn’t the Employee of the Month — he or she would have been worth at least $10,000.

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    ? Martin

    February 28, 2017 at 1:59 am

    I don’t think this is as risky as people might think. SpaceX has had 50 years of NASA lessons to borrow and about 7 orders of magnitude increased computing power (which is why they can land first stages). A lunar orbital mission should be pretty straightforward for them to do.

    The risk is that the Heavy won’t have many flights under it – maybe 6? And this may be only the 2nd manned flight of the Dragon 2. In terms of design, construction, QA, sensors and control, etc. they are miles beyond anything that we’ve seen out of NASA for manned flight. The Shuttle was approved by Nixon and built in the 70s and the upgrades over the years were modest. We’re ages past that now.

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    TriassicSands

    February 28, 2017 at 1:59 am

    @TheMightyTrowel:

    The SpaceX rocket carrying Donald Trump (and a deaf, blind, mute — the only person found to be compatible with Trump in such a confined space) has crashed into the moon. Sad!

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    TheMightyTrowel

    February 28, 2017 at 2:02 am

    @TriassicSands: #FakeNews the other passenger was a really classy important guy who loved Donald, but wasn’t as important and his hair was bad. Bald!

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    Mike J

    February 28, 2017 at 2:02 am

    SpaceX is building the B ark.

  13. 13.

    socraticsilence

    February 28, 2017 at 2:09 am

    Honestly, I think this is a brilliant way to beta test his bid for immortality– Musk can be the first human on another planet and get people to pay him money to be his test dummies.

    Think about it- what’s the one thing a Billionaire could do that would truly etch their name in history for all-time; being the first human on Mars would eclipse any Presidency in terms of historical accomplishment assuming said President doesn’t end all life.

  14. 14.

    Vhh

    February 28, 2017 at 2:24 am

    @amk: They did say there was no evidence, and cintacted Obama’s office, who will have to keep from giggling when they reply. Actually, maybe they will simply come out, read something straight, then laugh themselves silly. Or go on Colbert. Seriously, some kind of trumpturd must be out to surface, and this is just chaff.

  15. 15.

    marcion

    February 28, 2017 at 2:37 am

    fun times ahead:
    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/the-second-amendment-isnt-prepared-for-a-3d-printed-drone-army

  16. 16.

    Millard Filmore

    February 28, 2017 at 2:55 am

    @Vhh:

    Must be desperate for a diversion from whatever hairball will get coughed up this week.

    Its hard to keep up, but maybe this:
    http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028719791
    “Rachel – dropping the bomb tonight … Money-laundering…THATS why …follow the money.”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9k7YO3YdDs

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    mai naem mobile

    February 28, 2017 at 4:03 am

    I think Dolt 45 needs to be told Obama was too scared to go on this moonride, Obama thought it was too risky etc and I am sure Dolt 45 will absolutely insist on going on it.

  18. 18.

    opiejeanne

    February 28, 2017 at 4:08 am

    @TheMightyTrowel: First President On The Moon!!! It will be YUUGE!

  19. 19.

    gene108

    February 28, 2017 at 4:38 am

    @Vhh:

    I have heard the theory of Obama administration appointees / employees undermining Trump’s Presidency for some time now, from right-wingers.

    So far it is based on the theory Obama era workers are dragging their feet, with regards to following orders.

    They have not quite gotten to labeling them “wreckers”, in true Leninist fashion, who actively work to destroy the great conservative-Republican-Trumpian Revolution despite the great, clear, and easy to follow orders from President Trump and the Republican Congress and therefore must be executed after a very public trial showing the “wreckers” guilt.

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    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    February 28, 2017 at 4:45 am

    @gene108: So what happens next? An executive order firing every federal employee hired during 2009-2016? That would achieve their goal of destroying every single agency simultaneously.

  21. 21.

    Joyce H

    February 28, 2017 at 5:14 am

    @Vhh:

    CNN just reported on a Fox News interview with Trump in which he whines (without providing evidence) that Obama is sabotaging his government.

    This is Trump’s reaction to that news story that Obama was spotted on a NYC street and immediately drew a large cheering crowd. So yeah, in his mind, Obama is sabotaging his government – dammit, that’s supposed to be HIS cheering crowd!

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