Will NASA launch Artemis tonight? Only time will tell.
Cellist @YoYo_Ma performed a rendition of “America the Beautiful” with the Philadelphia Orchestra (@PhilOrch) to commemorate the launch of #Artemis I to the Moon. pic.twitter.com/HjBgd51K62
— NASA (@NASA) November 16, 2022
It’s on hold as I write this…
This… was so freaking perfect. Someone needs to make it a meme. Remora journalism is how I’m going to describe Haberman from this moment on.
Remora journalism.
— DT Kieling (@davevehicle) November 16, 2022
And a little humor…
The owl in the back.. 😂 pic.twitter.com/rtHz3dFBQ3
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) November 12, 2022
Everyone is in bed here and I’m off to join them. Been a long day.
This is an open thread
matt
At least Maggie didn’t say he was engorging.
kindness
Maggie helps Trump every chance she gets. She’ll never change. NY Times too. Pravda for the fascist adjacent.
KrackenJack
I guess tapeworm journalism is not the meme people want.
mrmoshpotato
We can launch Mags on it. What trash. I hope her soul was worth it.
Shalimar
Are we sure Haberman wasn’t watching something else? I didn’t personally watch, but every other critique I have seen described the exact opposite of Maggie’s bullshit.
Yutsano
SPAAAAAAACE!!!
dm
How far are we from Haberman musing about cradling his loafer-clad foot in her lap?
Yutsano
UP SHE GOES!!!
JoyceH
A night launch! I didn’t know we did that.
kalakal
Yay!
M31
WOO HOO!!!!
kalakal
Now that was a nice birthday present. Thank you NASA
Hkedi [Kang T. Q.]
We have gone to space today…
bjacques
W00t! Main engine cutoff (MECO).
otmar
I have to say: very considerate from NASA to delay the launch so that I can watch it live over breakfast.
The Pale Scot
Eventually we will Haberman giving Trump a BJ on PH, before she gets blackjacked by Ivanka
MobiusKlein
Goin’ back to the moon. What a night. I want to say something petty about some guy, but
nah
JoyceH
Watching a space launch makes me feel young again.
JoyceH
Watching a space launch makes me feel young again.
Redshift
What an awesome launch! To orbit in ten minutes!
Redshift
@JoyceH:
Yeah, I’ve been there for a few of them. There’s nothing like it, night turns to day.
eddie blake
ot- sooo just for the record, you know how we know that crime in nyc isn’t really a problem and has just been totally blown out of proportion by the media, the fascist gop and mayor cop?
bc people walk around with their five hundred dollar smartphones out, earbuds in, oblivious to their surroundings and without a care in the world.
back in the day? when shit was actually dangerous, you hadda walk around with your head on a swivel. these days people have their heads up their asses.
it’s kind of amazing (and a bit infuriating when you’re trying to catch a train). but yeah, no one’s scared of a crimewave in nyc. some may have said they were, but their behavior gives away the game
eta- go rocket! (also go knicks! they beat the jazz! pretty sweet.)
SectionH
@JoyceH: I’d just gotten home, and was reading NASA’s posts (yeah on my Twitter feed), and I was reading “Oh shit, who knows when”, and then YES. Yeah, not the same as waiting for the countdown in real time, but I am so old I watched John Glenn’s first flight (from the floor of the gym at my elementary school with Everyone at the school.) But since Challenger, I’m good with third hand cheering.
opiejeanne
Pffft. That’s how we’ll go to the sun.
SectionH
@eddie blake: there was a time when we were just driving to some convention in Orlando, and then WAIT WUT? – Major Contrail Straight UP. All the cars, all of us just pulled over to watch. My memory takes over with smiles about that one.
The night launch at the FL smofcon , which a bunch of ppl got into a couple of years later was apparently spectacular.
sukabi
soooo, Maggie got a new pair of kneepads…
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
I’m so happy Artemis got a good launch. The company I used to work for provides support for NASA launches and I bet they were in their secure area helping for this one, too.
I have a tiny connection to the SLS program, my current company did work on alloy samples a few months back.
mrmoshpotato
@opiejeanne:
Sneak up on it in the middle of the night! Brilliant!
JWR
Yikes. Maggie’s crush is showing!
From Tom Watson’s tweet. BYW, did anyone here actually read Haberman’s book, about which she told Stephen Colbert, “I don’t do ‘takes’, Stephen”, only to find that it was nothing but, oh, what’s the word, “takes”?
ColoradoGuy
Yay! To the Moon!
JWR
@sukabi:
Up vote. (And when I say up, I really mean UP! [Schwing!])
p.a.
Wikipedia: Although it was initially believed that remoras fed off particulate matter from the host’s meals, this has been shown to be false; in reality, their diets are composed primarily of host feces.[8
ColoradoGuy
@p.a.: As accurate a description of the GOP as I’ve ever seen.
Ruckus
@SectionH:
8th grade when John Glenn went up. Have always wondered what it would be like to go. Never wondered enough though. Pretty amazing how the last 60 yrs have gone with space flight. It still doesn’t seem all that normal. It’s somewhat like commercial flight. 60 yrs ago it was done but nothing like now. I flew 19 yrs ago to New Zealand, non stop. 13 hrs. Sat next to a German fella who worked for an international company and 3 weeks later he was on the same flight coming back to L.A. It really has become a small world. Now if we could only get assholes to not start wars because their penis is way too small…..
Lady WereBear
@p.a.: Thanks, now I have “sharksucker diet” on my brain and I haven’t even finished my cocoa yet.
Ruckus
@ColoradoGuy:
Second that.
Cameron
@p.a.: Sometimes I’ve considered Trump as a scarab beetle, a creature which was held sacred by some but which feasted on carrion and dung.
LiminalOwl
@kalakal: Happy birthday!
raven
ARTEMIS!!!!
raven
@Cameron: I vant to be Jung again!!!
ALurkSupreme
I think Haberman left a word out of that tweet. “Growing visibly bored, ” maybe?
Matt McIrvin
So, the elephant in the room is that the other half of the Moon landing scheme is supposed to be dependent on, um, one of Elon Musk’s companies. (And it’s a really weird, over-engineered approach.) What do you think the odds are it actually happens?
Lady WereBear
@Matt McIrvin: I think ol’ Elon is rapidly becoming a virus to the financial world.
BruceFromOhio
@p.a.: I was about to post same. Remora journalist, remora journalism. And an endless supply of feces.
Cacti
MAGA Haberman would require surgery to have her head removed from Trump’s rectum.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@eddie blake: I am sometimes surprised more people don’t get hit by cars or fall into construction zones..or down subway station steps. I don’t even go into the city much but the sheer level of inattention is nuts. Hapensin my building at work too, walking down stairs, halls, into elevators looking at their screen with their ear buds in. I am going to start letting them walk into me because I am sick of it.. Except they would probably break my recently replaced knee and I would be seen as at fault…. Ok I’ll be over here yell at the kids to get off my lawn.
Paul in KY
@The Pale Scot: She probably had to give him a BJ to get the access she got.