“oh you’re breaking up i think we’re going through a tunnel”
The Sounds of Silence
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Alberat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
testaccount372920@piefed.zip 2 months ago
After 30 seconds of akward silence they asked if the connection was okay, it was beautiful to see
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
“Wait I think there is someone outside the airlock, we will go and check!”
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Maybe they’ve got some Farscape episodes on their computers. Probably watching them enviously.
BanMe@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Yes they were actually very polite, they knew they were speaking with a demented narcissist.
EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
All the sci-fi movies? Can I get some recommendations?
Kraiden@piefed.social 2 months ago
Not a movie, but a music video for a great song
notthebees@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Dr. Stone technically counts
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
“DEFCON-4” leaps to mind (www.imdb.com/title/tt0087130/).
northendtrooper@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Yeah the NASA twitch stream had to swap to emojis only.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I need a clip desperately of the chat
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
You can say an awful lot with emojis. Is there a transcript somewhere?
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 months ago
Brand new sentence
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
It ain’t free. They’re on the clock, they’re being paid.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 months ago
I like the way you think lol
Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I’m not sure if “have to” is true. I’m sure they could refuse.
mimavox@piefed.social 2 months ago
I would have stayed in moon orbit.
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Luckiest folks in the human race. Furthest from Trump.
Soup@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
They could presumably be within 300 miles of him.
lengau@midwest.social 2 months ago
As of this writing they’re still over 300,000 km away from the Earth. artemis.cdnspace.ca
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
The two on the left imagining just never going back to earth
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 months ago
We feel you mister astronaut. The entire planet is with you.
borQue@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months ago
The mission may be called Integrity, but this part was pure Endurance.
Slein4273@feddit.org 2 months ago
Correction: The mission is called Artemis 2. Integrity is the callsign the Orion capsule was given by its crew.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 months ago
Underrated comment lol
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months 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 2 months ago
Am I gonna regret asking
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Speiser0@feddit.org 2 months 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 2 months ago
I think they were expecting more lol
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The addition of the music makes it 10 times funnier.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I’d like to commend Trump for lowering himself to talk to a woman and shudder A Black
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 months 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 2 months ago
Don’t forget “thugs”
P1k1e@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Funnily enough. There’s no woman nor person of color farther away from him than these two.
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Lucky, lucky people
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Me when astronauts start blathering about the bible:
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
‘4 brave astronuts’
remon@ani.social 2 months ago
I want to see their faces when ICE fishes them out of the ocean …
MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Agent641@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Janx@piefed.social 2 months ago
Vic Mackey is so over this shit.
kamayatu24@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are glad to have left the earth.
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thats called Resting Bitch Face. Its more common than you think
Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
they’re career jarheads lmao.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Astronauts are highly educated and trained individuals. Not a single MAGA ding dong is qualified to go into space.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Russian scientists on the ISS are all Putin fans, though.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 months ago
maga
astronauts
You haven’t seen the illiterate statistics for them yet have you lol
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
They are not American only, what do you expect.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Will ICE be waiting for them?
Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
The struggle is real.
melfie@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
moonandstar@lemmygrad.ml 2 months ago
Did the ‘enlightened, very intelligent’ astronauts use their platform to say something about Gaza or the war in Iran?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hard to hide honest reactions
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In space, no one can hear your cringe
perishthethought@piefed.social 2 months ago
… but we can see it.