Red Card Riot
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@FutisLife67 Quit jerking off to Lew. It’s not happening.
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Four humans are about to fall into a 10,000°C wall of plasma at 25,000 mph with a heat shield NASA knows is flawed. Tomorrow evening. Off the coast of San Diego.
Orion hits the atmosphere at 36 times the speed of sound. The air can't move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses into a shockwave twice as hot as the surface of the Sun. The plasma ionizes the surrounding air and blocks all radio signals. For several minutes, the crew is falling faster than any humans have ever traveled inside a spacecraft, and nobody on the ground can talk to them.
The heat shield is 186 blocks of a material called Avcoat glued to a titanium skeleton. It works by charring, melting, and disintegrating on purpose. The destruction of the outer layer is the cooling mechanism. There is no backup system. No redundancy. The heat shield works or the crew doesn't come home.
The Artemis I heat shield came back with over 100 locations where chunks had ripped off. NASA spent two years figuring out why, concluded it was gas pressure building up inside the material during reentry, and decided not to replace the shield. They changed the flight path instead. Steeper angle, less time in the danger zone. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said publicly that this approach "is not the right way to do things long term."
The capsule will slow from 25,000 mph to 17 mph in thirteen minutes. Parachutes don't even deploy until the last four. Everything before that is managed by a curved piece of titanium and glue entering air twice as hot as the Sun.
Tomorrow at 5:07 PM Pacific, San Diego might hear a sonic boom. That sound is four people betting their lives on NASA's math being right.
Insider Paper@TheInsiderPaper
NEW: NASA says that people along the coast of San Diego County in California might hear a sonic boom Friday afternoon when the Orion capsule carrying the Artemis II crew re-enters the atmosphere, wrapping up its historic trip around the moon. The boom may be loud enough to rattle windows when the capsule re-enters the atmosphere shortly before 5 p.m, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports
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@NoLieWithBTC Literally exactly what Biden did, yet there were no complaints from Democrats. Peak hypocrisy.
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Breaking: Trump promises mass pardons to all of his staff before he leaves office.
He says everyone who came within “200 feet of the Oval Office” will be fully pardoned for any crimes committed.
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iTs nOT pResIdeNtial LaNGuAGe
Shut the fuck up! You know what is presidential? Finally killing the fucking terrorists who chant death to America and terrorize the region while all the pussy ass nations do nothing about it.
America 4 life 🇺🇸
Chris Murphy 🟧@ChrisMurphyCT
If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.
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🚨 These are the posts I voted for!
“Open the Fcking Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell…”
🫳🏼🎤
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This is what I voted for.
Bomb jihadis back to the Stone Age where their mentality permanently lives.
Trump said he’s going to bomb their infrastructure in Iran, and then he said “Praise be to Allah”.
On Easter.
Amazing. Just amazing. 🇺🇸
Strategic bombing wins wars.
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@LangmanVince Better than advertised. Every mission has been perfectly executed.
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Pete Hegseth will now go down as the best Secretary of Defense since WWII, and possibly ever!
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@LangmanVince Keep being a fucking clown. Must be a miserable existence for you.
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@LauraLoomer @rookisaacman Find it funny how the world is going gaga over this launch. Especially when there was no excitement for the advancements that made by SpaceX. NASA has spent billions of dollars in what should be seen as a failure program. But let’s celebrate for sure.
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Up bright and early on my way to the Kennedy Space Center.
Excited to be attending the Artemis II Launch today.🚀
This is a significant leap towards putting Americans back on the moon— and staying this time!🌖
Best of luck today, @rookisaacman and the crew!
USA! USA! USA!🇺🇸
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@LauraLoomer @rookisaacman Get the best view by standing under the rocket at liftoff!
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President Trump says what everyone is thinking.
He’s right.
We shouldn’t be sad when bad people die.
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