“oh you’re breaking up i think we’re going through a tunnel”
The Sounds of Silence
Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Alberat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
testaccount372920@piefed.zip 1 month ago
After 30 seconds of akward silence they asked if the connection was okay, it was beautiful to see
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That parts not that unusual. The really funny part to me is when they asked for a com check, Trump responded that he was still there. Usually when we ask for a com check someone says they can hear you, coms are fine, something like that. That’s my experience with it anyway.
GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 month ago
“Wait I think there is someone outside the airlock, we will go and check!”
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe they’ve got some Farscape episodes on their computers. Probably watching them enviously.
BanMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Apparently they just let Trump talk and didn’t respond for a full minute and Trump was like “anyway you’re the best” and they still didn’t respond and Trump’s people ended the call.
The astronauts gave him the silent treatment. They could clearly hear him.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I watched it live, they did respond to his direct questions, but at some point Trump went into a monologue that didn’t end in a question, and they didn’t say anything back, keeping a silence going for an awkward amount of time until Houston asked if they are still on the line and they confirmed that yeah they heard everything. And said nothing else.
Muehe@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Nah other way around. The astronauts asked NASA a administrator if they are still on the line or if there was a handover. Then Tump replied “I am, yes, I am”.
quips@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Yes they were actually very polite, they knew they were speaking with a demented narcissist.
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
He’s asking how young the girls in space are, and they’re thinking about all of the Sci-Fi movies where the Earth blows up and astronauts have to watch it go.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All the sci-fi movies? Can I get some recommendations?
Kraiden@piefed.social 1 month ago
Not a movie, but a music video for a great song
notthebees@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Dr. Stone technically counts
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 1 month ago
I have a book sort of like this. SevenEves by Niel Stephenson.
The book blows up (or gets hit or something). The dist will make earth uninhabitable within a few years. I want to say Seven Years. I remeber the SevenEves title has many possible “meanings” and I think years to collapse was one.
They basically work to get as many people as they can, which isn’t many, into space working with the small crew of a (larger than ISS but not huge) space station. Including all of the logistics of food and housing.
The first two thirds are pretty good, the lattwr third jump to the future and fallout and I hated that part, but the first part is good.
fartographer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s literally the plot of The Shining. It’s in Stanley Kubrick’s hidden messages from the fake moon that he invented or something.
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I.S.S. is based on that, there was a Cloverfield spin off that was pretty similar, too. I’m sure there are a bunch more, and I’d be interested to see them, too.
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“DEFCON-4” leaps to mind (www.imdb.com/title/tt0087130/).
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yeah the NASA twitch stream had to swap to emojis only.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I need a clip desperately of the chat
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
You can say an awful lot with emojis. Is there a transcript somewhere?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 month ago
Brand new sentence
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I wouldn’t have gone to the moon if I were them. You know they’ll have to meet the president after they get back. It’s not worth it.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 month ago
totally worth it.
free ride to the moon and a chance to kill the most sadistic megalomaniac in history?
hell yeah, sign me the fuck up!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It ain’t free. They’re on the clock, they’re being paid.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 month ago
I like the way you think lol
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’m not sure if “have to” is true. I’m sure they could refuse.
mimavox@piefed.social 1 month ago
I would have stayed in moon orbit.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 1 month ago
The mental image of one if them dancing into the whitehouse like a Ghanaian palbearer just to flip everyone off and say ‘I don’t give a fuck what you creepy old paedos have to say. I went to the fucking moon,’ is immensely entertaining.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Luckiest folks in the human race. Furthest from Trump.
Soup@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Furthest from Trump and yet were told they needed to be on a direct call with him. Apparently even being in space isn’t enough.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They could presumably be within 300 miles of him.
lengau@midwest.social 1 month ago
As of this writing they’re still over 300,000 km away from the Earth. artemis.cdnspace.ca
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They left LEO a while ago. But, point taken. Kinda funny that they could be “technically” closer to him than someone across the country.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The two on the left imagining just never going back to earth
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 month ago
We feel you mister astronaut. The entire planet is with you.
borQue@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I would have been teary eyed too. Travelling as far as you can and still hear that asshole come out of the speakers. I would demand a refund.
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The mission may be called Integrity, but this part was pure Endurance.
Slein4273@feddit.org 1 month ago
Correction: The mission is called Artemis 2. Integrity is the callsign the Orion capsule was given by its crew.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 month ago
Underrated comment lol
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
They obviously talked about this in advance, and decided that they would let him talk, because they didn’t have a choice, but they wouldn’t engage. Answer his questions with as little as possible, and don’t ask anything back. Don’t give them anything he can use as propaganda, no kissing his ass, praising him for his great leadership in getting America back in space, etc.
They were so committed to the bit, that when he ran out of steam, they just let him twist in the wind.
Glorious.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org 1 month ago
Am I gonna regret asking
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Speiser0@feddit.org 1 month ago
The good part of the speech took about 60 seconds, FYI. (Way longer than in that video.)
(www.twitch.tv/videos/2741491172 9:38:05)
PolarPirate@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I think they were expecting more lol
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The addition of the music makes it 10 times funnier.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I’d like to commend Trump for lowering himself to talk to a woman and shudder A Black
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 month ago
He’s not black, he’s a “low IQ individual.” That’s the phrase he ALWAYS uses when referring to a black person.
littlewonder@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don’t forget “thugs”
P1k1e@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Funnily enough. There’s no woman nor person of color farther away from him than these two.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Lucky, lucky people
chunes@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me when astronauts start blathering about the bible:
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Yuppp
Epstein’s on the Moon, with email this time.
I got no space for joy about this moonshot, wish I did.
testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Also, Trump referring to Jeremy Hansen:
And the 4 brave astronauts of Artemis II are our modern-day, you really are modern-day pioneers, all of you. And one of them happens to be a neighbor. You know who that is, right? You have a special person over there, a neighbor. And, uh, we like our neighbor.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
‘4 brave astronuts’
remon@ani.social 1 month ago
I want to see their faces when ICE fishes them out of the ocean …
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The paranormal community at large has been treating UFOs and aliens as transdimensional entities indistinguishable from historical and biblical demons for a long time now, including Djinn, fae, elves, earth spirits, and ghosts.
'Demon’s the way they use it are ones who reveal themselves, as opposed to those who hide in the shadows. Demon - strate, demonstrate themselves.
Tiger_Man_@szmer.info 1 month ago
Janx@piefed.social 1 month ago
Vic Mackey is so over this shit.
kamayatu24@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They are glad to have left the earth.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thats called Resting Bitch Face. Its more common than you think
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I assume only maga astronauts (or ones who can do a convincing facsimile thereof) on the ground would be allowed in the crew.
Vupware@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You assume incorrectly. I’ve been watching the stream for days. They named their craft Integrity, for fuck’s sake. They have been promoting messages of unity and global cooperation for the betterment of ALL humankind. Does that sound MAGA to you?
punkfungus@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I was watching live when Trump called in, and the astronauts were clearly trying to emphasize the benefits of diversity and co-operation, and I’m quite sure none of that sunk in. Trump was too busy mispronouncing names, not knowing the difference between the name of the mission and the name of the craft, big noting his own role in funding NASA (while his administration has been actively attacking NASA) and generally waffling on because he likes to listen to himself speak.
The next call after that also had the NASA director comment something like “I’m sure this call won’t be as special as that last one” whereupon commander Wiseman burst out laughing so I’m pretty confident those involved in the mission are not in Trump’s camp. Which is to be expected, because their jobs require them to be humans with functioning brains.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Astronauts are highly educated and trained individuals. Not a single MAGA ding dong is qualified to go into space.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The Russian scientists on the ISS are all Putin fans, though.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 month ago
maga
astronauts
You haven’t seen the illiterate statistics for them yet have you lol
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
They are not American only, what do you expect.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Will ICE be waiting for them?
Bazell@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
The struggle is real.
melfie@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
moonandstar@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
Did the ‘enlightened, very intelligent’ astronauts use their platform to say something about Gaza or the war in Iran?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hard to hide honest reactions
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In space, no one can hear your cringe
perishthethought@piefed.social 1 month ago
… but we can see it.