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There is hope for us as a society

The only thing worse than taking us into another Middle East war is telling us nothing about how to end it.

@e2pilot Frequent flyer miles gonna be legit

Because it makes the return trip free.

If you're under 53 years old, you have never once been alive while a human was farther than 250 miles from Earth. Tonight, four astronauts are heading 252,000 miles out. That's a thousand times farther than any person has gone in your lifetime. The 250-mile ceiling is where the International Space Station floats. Every astronaut since December 1972 has been stuck in that zone. Spacewalks, science experiments, cool photos from orbit, sure. But nobody left the neighborhood. The last crew to go farther was Apollo 17. December 1972. Nixon was president. The internet didn't exist. Cell phones were 11 years away. The youngest member of that crew is now 90 years old. The farthest any human has ever been from Earth is 248,655 miles. The Apollo 13 crew set that number in 1970, and they didn't mean to. Their oxygen tank blew up, and the emergency route home took them farther out than anyone before or since. Tonight's crew will break that record on purpose. And the crew itself. Victor Glover becomes the first Black astronaut to leave Earth's neighborhood. Christina Koch becomes the first woman. Jeremy Hansen, a Canadian fighter pilot, becomes the first non-American to do so. When they come home, they'll slam into the atmosphere at 25,000 mph, faster than any human has ever traveled. The Moon's south pole has ice. Water ice, sitting in craters so deep that sunlight hasn't hit them in billions of years. A 2024 NASA study found way more of it than anyone expected. You can split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which gives you rocket fuel, breathable air, and drinking water, all made on the Moon instead of hauled up from Earth. George Sowers at Colorado School of Mines calculated that Moon-made fuel could shave $12 billion off a single trip to Mars. The Moon is a gas station on the road to Mars. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced last week a $20 billion plan to build a permanent base at the South Pole over the next seven years, with landings every six months. China is developing its own lunar lander and spacesuit, aiming for a crewed landing by 2030. The Artemis program has burned through $93 billion so far, and the first actual surface landing is penciled in for 2028. There's a real question of who gets there first this time around. Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon in December 1972 as part of Apollo 17. He's 90. Asked about it this week, he sounded pretty relaxed. "Mars is attainable," he said. "We're humans. That's what we've always done."

She's not wrong

A few thoughts ahead of the President’s speech tonight.

Appearance by @JayD__5

@moneymetalcakes @MGMNH_Poker

When the @MGMNH_Poker Ambo flops a set of 5s, survives against 2 others, including @DMVnativeChris , and triples up in the 1st Level of the April Cakes Classic...

Well made it 3 hands in the @moneymetalcakes cakes classic, got it all in with too many outs, didn’t hit. But I did help Ambo triple up!!

@e2pilot Some poor bastard from national park services has to visit every year to polish it

@DMVnativeChris Heh, there is, maybe they will see that lol

Good grief, a caller just asked if the Artemis Crew would be able to take pictures of the original Apollo landing areas so they could "settle the question of us having really gone to the moon 50 years ago"...sheez.

Well played @UncleChaps

🚨 BOOM! Kid just MIC DROPPED A CNN reporter outside the Artemis II launch: CNN: “Why do you want to be here? Why love being part of history?” Kid: “We’re going back to the FCKING MOON, that’s why!” 🤣 No filter. Pure fire. Legend.

Meal prep for the crab @moneymetalcakes classic at @MGMNH_Poker see you guys for shuffle up and deal!

@WhizBuckleyNFH @gregkellyusa Since there have been pilots there have been hotdogs……. lol

@gregkellyusa Lmfao “hot dog pilots” Who talks like that? Lighten up Francis

So what if those “fly boys” flew by Madonna’s house and Took a Bow? Or Robert DeNiro. That would Not be cool, right? But it’s just fine for Kid Rockhead? What an amateur move, posting it on Social Media. Meanwhile HEGSETH runs the Pentagon like he ran his phony “non-profits” —RECKLESSLY. He has No business Micro-Managing Army Units. They MUST Discipline Hot Dog Pilots performing Unauthorized Stunts. Because Next Time something could go Very Very Bad.

Justice KBJ: "If I steal a wallet in Japan, I am subject to Japanese laws….. in a sense, it's allegiance." Her case for birthright citizenship:

@moneymetalcakes @MGMNH_Poker @RGPokerSeries Me staring at cakes all night…….

No April Fools jokes from the @MGMNH_Poker Ambassador...the @RGPokerSeries seat that's up for grabs tonite, a $1,300 value, so come out and get it! Cards in the air at 7:15PM!

@moneymetalcakes @MGMNH_Poker Trash

When the @MGMNH_Poker Ambo gets it in vs a shorty stack, im holding pocket Derik Queens...flop is J 10 6...I ship it in, she turns a third 10...

Blue Shorts just texted me: “I was in the passenger seat next to Tiger Woods.”

OVI'S HAVING HIMSELF A NIGHT!!! 🤯 His 31st goal of the season and second tonight!