Not saying this comment would’ve been unimaginable in 1972, but it would’ve taken a lot more explaining…
so thirsty we’re just shooting noods off into deep space https://t.co/88yh32Pz6t
— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) March 3, 2022
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Not saying this comment would’ve been unimaginable in 1972, but it would’ve taken a lot more explaining…
so thirsty we’re just shooting noods off into deep space https://t.co/88yh32Pz6t
— The Mall Krampus (@cakotz) March 3, 2022
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Mart
“We” look white.
Ken
I once stumbled on a site devoted to deliberate (?) mis-interpretations of the Pioneer plaque. I’m not finding it now, so maybe I’m remembering an old USENET thread. The trickiest (and usually funniest) bits were the alternate explanations for the human figures.
I’ve read two stories where aliens discovered Pioneer. One is C. J. Cherryh’s excellent “Pots”. The other was a short-short where the aliens wiped out the race that was so perverse as to send nude images of themselves.
Mike
Things that matter to us include classic movies. We just got ‘Groundhog Day ‘ and have other movies in the Netflix queue. .
BellyCat
How ‘bout some less explaining now — starting with definition of “noods”
ETA: Oh… Didn’t realize the word “nudes” was so offensive it had to be sanitized for Twitting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
isn’t part of Tucker’s origin story was that in spite of daddy’s connections and step-mummy’s vast, VAASST fortune, he had to go to his safety school?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Mart: and in good shape too lol
Martin
@Mart: “We” are white. Technically the guy has a ‘non-African Mediterranean-curly haircut’, rather than the afro that was in the original drawing. Sagan didn’t want them to look white. NASA management made the edits.
Martin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: If Tucker wants to check if she has good teeth, he should just come out and say so.
ssdd
This *was* actually controversial at the time. NASA got letters about how they were sending smut into space. People are strange.
HumboldtBlue
@Martin:
Damn.
Major Major Major Major
@Martin: I did not know that!
ETA: Having a hard time finding great citations, but it sounds like the woman is supposed to be Asian (she has epicanthal folds), but everybody misinterprets her as blonde because it’s a line drawing.
@Ken: Reminds me of The Onion: Alien Still Hasn’t Gotten Around To Listening To Whole Voyager Golden Record
phdesmond
Stephanie Ruhle introduced herself a little in the last minute of tonight’s The Eleventh Hour on msnbc.
she has a mission, which i wouldn’t want to misstate, which is visionary.
HumboldtBlue
Ukrainian military with cats part II!
Martin
@phdesmond: I really like Ruhle.
different-church-lady
“Send more Chuck Berry!”
Martin
@Major Major Major Major: I’d love if we could get Tom to provide some background on this – it’s very much in his wheelhouse.
HumboldtBlue
Check out this email a Pence adviser sent to Trump’s lawyer on Jan. 6.
It “very respectfully” rips apart the Trump team’s legal analysis, and then ends with: “And thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege. Sent from my iPhone.”
Kalakal
This could get interesting.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/02/january-6-commitee-challenge-trump-lawyer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
different-church-lady
@HumboldtBlue:
Like, try to make sure a pandemic doesn’t financially ruin people and anyone who isn’t white can’t get shit on?
danielx
Additional evidence, if such were needed, that Ron DeSantis is a petulant little asshole. Trump mini-me, indeed.
Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis upbraids students for wearing masks, calling it ‘covid theater’
That man has clearly imbibed too much essence of douche.
HumboldtBlue
@different-church-lady:
The work of the liberal devil, for sure.
Jerzy Russian
It is a good thing NASA also included a record player, since alien play-back technology probably has gone through lots of different types of media, much like our own. Also, one presumes that that golden record is more durable than 8-track tapes, which was popular at that time.
HumboldtBlue
Anti-trans Texas House candidate Jeff Younger came to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas this evening and it went about as well as you’d expect
Chetan Murthy
@HumboldtBlue: damn. impressive.
Felanius Kootea
New York Times: Jan. 6 Committee Lays Out Potential Criminal Charges Against Trump
Ten Bears
Come. Eat!
Mary G
A cup of ice chips when you’re fluid restricted is a gift from Dog.
BP is dangerously low at 86/51. Cross your fingers for me.
Ruckus
@danielx:
That man has clearly imbibed too much essence of douche.
It does seem to freely ooze out of him every one of his waking moments doesn’t it?
HumboldtBlue
@Mary G:
WOAH WOAH WOAH!
OK, feel better Mary, got-damn, here’s to videos of Dubya justifying war in Iraq to get your blood pressure up!
mrmoshpotato
@HumboldtBlue: There’s a University of North Texas?
ETA – GOOD ON THE STUDENTS!
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G:
@HumboldtBlue: Mary, how many videos of the Kremlin’s orange shitstain do you need? We will provide!
Ruckus
@Mary G:
Damn.
Mary, get medical help.
mrmoshpotato
@Ten Bears: What’re you making for a late night snack?
trollhattan
@Mary G:
Fingers, toes crossed! [And those toes cramp, let me tell you.] Sending you my best thoughts and wishes.
The Dangerman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
No, he didn’t … did he? Tell ya what, I’ll trade the LSAT scores for Trumps transcripts.
Yeah, I thought so …
Xenos
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Tucker was expelled from St Georges’ (prep school) for smoking weed. That took some doing, I assure you. Would up settling for Trinity, which needed a building or something.
NotMax
@Jerzy Russian
Unless it is happened across by a species who consider gold a tasty treat.
;)
JWR
Heads up O/T for left coasters: Stephen Colbert’s cold open was pretty good. Also, too, Fiona Hill will be his second guest.
Now back to reading the last days threads.
West of the Rockies
@Mary G:
Very best wishes for health, Mary. Hie thee hence to a physician!
delk
@Mary G: please be very careful standing up. Look around you for places you can grab on to. Be especially careful taking your first two or three. steps — blacking out and falling down is a real threat. I have low BP and no matter how careful I am I fall a couple times each year.
sab
@delk: Not so much for Mary G (doesn’t she live with people?)
If you live alone you need to get something like Alert One or Life Alert to notify your distant or close family or local medical help.
We had it for my parents. It blasted me and our nurse’s aide whenever dad had a problem.
I know so many single people who have died alone at home,often over several days or weeks, because their families did not know they were in trouble. When we get old we want to keep on being independent, but the cost in the long run is huge. If you have family or friends, please let them help.
opiejeanne
@Mary G: Oh no! I hope it improves soon. Everyone has given you good advice so I won’t, just best wishes for you.
I’m on Gabapentin for nerve pain in my face, so I’m pretty loopy right now and will probably fall asleep very soon. It feels like I’ve chipped my cheekbone on the right, and the pain extends up into my scalp. Feels like my hair is being pulled. It doesn’t hurt too much unless it’s touched by me or someone else, or something. Really weird. I’m supposed to follow up with my doctor soon. This is the second time this has happened in the past 2 months, but I didn’t get it checked then. It’s a bit worse now than then.
I don’t think the med is doing much for the pain but it does help me sleep.
LongHairedWeirdo
@Ken: There’s also the short-sad story about how “they’re made of *meat*. No, not with cybernetic parts, just plain, ordinary *meat*.”
“But they communicate!”
“Yes, by flapping their meat at each other!”
Humanity is marked with a big, fat, “they’re not like us!” sign with a sad thought of how *lonely* the vastness of the universe is without companionship.
satby
@Mary G: Keeping good thoughts for you Mary G! Feel better soon.
LongHairedWeirdo
@Mary G: Dunno who you are or your situation. I still hope life is treating you right. Feel free to put demons on notice that there’s 200lb of fighting Philadelphian with an appointment to kick their asses – not their demonic donkeys, neither. (You can ignore the, ahem, extra pounds of potgut attached to said Philadelphian.)
Matt McIrvin
@Martin: I recall Sagan writing about how they had tried to give the people a mixture of racial characteristics. Hadn’t remembered that NASA changed the guy’s hair
I do remember they got some criticism for drawing the man with his hand up and the woman in what some people interpreted as a submissive posture. There was a revised version of the same drawing encoded as a still video image on the Voyager golden record, and in that one, the people basically looked the same but the woman was giving the greeting.
lowtechcyclist
@Mary G: @Mary G:
That’s scary. You’re in my prayers.
lowtechcyclist
In December, it’ll be 50 years since the last time that humans set foot on the moon.
Still boggles my mind that nobody’s been back since.
Brantl
@danielx:
That would be cannibalism. He is essence of douche.
Brantl
@Mary G: Take care.
Jake Gibson
@LongHairedWeirdo:
Terry Bisson.
He also had a story about how great things were after The Rapture and we got rid of all the fundy Christians.
Matt McIrvin
@lowtechcyclist: I kind of understand it. Sending humans to the moon is extremely expensive and while the scientific haul was large, it only ever made sense as a kind of Cold War prestige/psychological-warfare project. Today a lot of people vaguely imagine it was a popular project that united America, but it wasn’t–it was extremely divisive and a slim majority of people disapproved of spending all that money and effort on what they saw as a stunt. Once the finish line was achieved, NASA had grandiose plans to build on that success, but there was little motivation to do any of that. Most of the people in charge of the money wanted to declare victory and end it.
There are, of course, plans today to go back. Who knows if any of that will happen.
My attitude toward space exploration is that I like anything that gives us the most science and discovery for the buck, and these days, that’s not crewed exploration. Also, the next obvious target is Mars–a vastly more difficult ask than the Moon–and there’s the added complication that if we’re looking for signs of past life, avoiding microbial contamination is paramount, and humans are filthy things.
Jake Gibson
@Brantl:
Just high on his own supply.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
@Matt McIrvin: I recall a comment from Andy Weir, author of The Martian, that speculated that the best method of exploring Mars would be rovers on the surface controller by people in orbit, thereby getting the best of both worlds, as it were – humans managing the exploration without light lag, without having to worry about bringing tons of life support down to the surface and then bringing explorers back up out of Mars’s gravity well. Of course, there’d still be the issue of being in space for several years, but there’s been a lot of headway in that regard in the last few decades, especially with the International Space Station long-duration missions.
Matt McIrvin
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: IIRC, the minimum delta-V to land on Phobos or Deimos is pretty modest. So you could even make it a crewed landing mission, just not on Mars. It would still be incredibly ambitious though.
LongHairedWeirdo
@delk: This is an *IMPORTANT* and lifesaving tip. An unexpected fall is an unacceptable risk, all by itself. You can literally break your neck, far too easily.
Pride is the *WORST* thing *EVER* for this. You need to recognize the signs, and you need to be thinking “how can I reduce my falling distance?” with every move you take, as soon as you realize you’re unsteady. If you realize you’re feeling stupid, and leaning hard against the wall, lower yourself to the ground – you’ll get the hang of it pretty quickly.
One of my points of pride is, when foolishly washing Clonidine down with a glass of red wine, I regained consciousness with my back to a chair – indicating I’d used it to set myself to the floor safely.
You might literally “crab walk” – use your feet and hands to raise yourself, so you walk the way a crab does, on the sea floor – more easily than standing up. If so, again: no shame. Fighting back against a body that won’t even give you proper blood flow is one of the worst things to have to do. Crawl if you have to, and, if you’re like me, realize you’re allowed to pitch anyone’s ass out the door if they start snickering at your predicament.