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@lady_valor_07 Poltergeist

Gremlins! You?!

@hunterlanier And its ok that NASA will never be that way again. My parents were Apollo, my generation was the Shuttle, this generation is Artemis, and I'm here for it all. Go do your thing, make it yours and make all of us proud

@hunterlanier Apollo was the perfect storm. Its the youth you spoke of for sure, with the perfect political environment, huge public support, huge money, elite, bold, unselfish management (demotions for good of program wasn't uncommon) and some real good luck. NASA can never be that way again

Had a good discussion with someone today about why the literature and overall vibes from Apollo era NASA feels so different compared to now. Two things: 1. The average age of a NASA engineer during the Apollo era was 28 2. Most of them were first generation engineers who didn’t really have the engineering background So you take a bunch of 21-32 year olds who grew up on a farm, and now you tell them we are going to do something nobody’s ever done before. It leads to things being as simplified as they need to be. There is enough duct-tape work that things actually get done. Society has forced us into a evermore theoretical world where we have forgotten what it feels like to beat the puzzle pieces into place with a hammer. This is why many of the textbooks from this time period are actually very pleasant to read through. They were often written by or for someone who had nothing but outside life experience, trying to understand it. Our generation is taking Artemis back to the moon and also Mars in the same way this generation did. I think we have a lot to learn from how they did things, and I’m glad to see a return to this type of engineering. I can’t help but think about how many projects I didn’t finish because I couldn’t do them well enough to my standards in my head, and I should have just wrapped the thing in duct-tape and crossed the finish line

@1Nicdar I've been to Michigan alot, they really belong in 3.

This would be a massacre.

@NoContextHumans 3F don't really care enough to talk to any of these people and I want the window. And I doubt any of them will talk with me more then a basic hi

Which seat you choosing?

@lady_valor_07 Roth ira, now, invested automatically when you get paid, and forget about it. Trust me, at 60, you'll be very thankful you did

I’m 25. Give me oddly specific life tips. No general ”surround yourself with positive people” tips. I want the most random, specific advice possible.

@PlayoffDude Peak performance/ability, Miami LeBron. Best accomplishment, high point of his career, 2016 Cavs Lebron

Which version of LeBron is the best?

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@ibn_wittig Not a movie, an audiobook. Apollo, its on audible. It was originally written in the 80's when most of the folk were still alive. Its the definitive history of the engineering and upper management of the Apollo program. Its an amazing read and explains it all im detail.

For space lovers. Some interesting space movies you can see this weekend: 1. Apollo 11 2. Apollo 13 3. First man 4. Martian 5. Interstellar Any other recommendations?

@FrankWCE1992 @vitt2tsnoc 10??? It would've needed to be 100's, probably 1k or more per mission.(9 trips to the moon, 6 that landed, and staffing constantly changed) it would've been 5k plus total who had to know. This post is just simple ignorance on how it actually worked. I actually feel bad for you

@vitt2tsnoc 100,000 people could've worked on the Apollo program and less than 10 would have known it had to be faked. Do you think the guys worked on the rockets and putting bolts on things has any damn clue of what went on after the rocket left earth? 😂😂 Get some critical thinking

I’m so BORED of the “it’s all fake” morons ruining our joy. Imagine living in a reality where thousands of scientists, engineers, and pilots across centuries are all in on a prank just to trick you specifically. The narcissism required is unmatched. You’re BORING. #ArtemisII

@rhensing @SpaceX It's a complicated answer, but once past the TDRS satellite system, they are now on the Deep Space Network. Its not designed for high bandwidth. High Def live video would be difficult, Starlink wouldn't matter. It is for Earth comms, its not pointed out towards the moon.

Bruh. Why is this NASA coverage of the moon so terrible? I feel like in 2026 we should be able to manage an HD continuous livestream using lasers and Starlink or something? This has to be driving the @SpaceX team absolutely nuts. Can’t wait for Starship to land on the moon autonomously soon and sending us HD video the whole way.

@vxylily The internet and social media. And its not even close. It has destroyed our ability to function, to think critically, to get good and correct information. It will untimely be the downfall of western civilization and culture

In your opinion what is the biggest threat to humanity

@israeldiaz_r There is nothing about going to the moon that wasn't well within technology of the mid to late 1960's. I'm not at all saying it was easy, but it was well within 1960's tech. It was just a ton of money and time to perfect things. The Manhattan Project, was much more complicated

Mi bisabuelo murió pensando que el viaje a la luna había sido un engaño. Para él era algo imposible. Toda la familia se burlaba de él por esto. Fue un hombre sin formación, curtido en el mar. En cierto modo puedo entenderlo. Pero los miles de comentarios que leo estos días en redes sociales desafiando la veracidad del proyecto Apolo y tachándolo de engaño histórico me deja perplejo. En un siglo en el que la población mundial tiene acceso a la educación como jamás en toda su historia. ¿Cómo vamos a lograr que los futuros avances científicos encuentren utilidad y aceptación entre tal masa de ineptos y conspiracionistas? En la película Interestellar la profesora de la hija de Cooper, el protagonista, le dice que su hija llevó a clase un libro antiguo sobre las misiones lunares, un libro prohibido ya que en los nuevos explican que las misiones lunares fueron una simulación para tratar de llevar a la ruina a la Unión Soviética, y que ahora les enseñan que no deben derrochar dinero como en el siglo XX en máquinas inútiles, a lo que Cooper les indica que una de esas máquinas inútiles habría detectado el quiste de su mujer en la cabeza y esta no habría muerto. Es un claro ejemplo de lo que nos espera.

@RealJoseArroyo @israeldiaz_r This plus, you can go on the Chinese language space agency website and see pics, taken with their probes of the landing site. Give me 1 good reason would lie for us? The proof we went is so massively overwhelming that you have to make an effort to not believe it

@israeldiaz_r Para mi, la prueba más irrefutable de que el hombre efectivamente llegó a la Luna, son los soviéticos. En plena guerra fría y una competencia sin igual por ser el primero en llegar, Rusia, si hubiese comprobado que USA nunca pisó la Luna, no hubiese tardado en divulgarlo. 👍

@BrianFisher420 @NASA @astro_reid Lol. There is literally nothing that is correct with this post

Dorks!! Where are all the satellites orbiting? And if longer shutter we should most DEFINITELY See a bunch of stars! You can’t get it right to save face. We demand a continuous, unedited, view of earth, the mission they have all the time to take a few hours long video if not able to do the live. Oh and what’s up with the Van Allen Belts?? Did we forget about that??

Even in darkness, we glow. In this image of Earth taken by the Artemis II crew, we can see the electric lights of human activity. In the lower right, sunlight illuminates the limb of the planet.

@GuntherEagleman @elonmusk 100% yes. And the proof that we did is so overwhelmingly massive that one would have to go so far out of the realm of reality to believe we didn't. It is literally not even a debate at this point

@elonmusk Did we really land on the moon in 1969...?

Incredible that it was only 66 years from the first controlled, powered flight to landing on the Moon!

@MCCCANM I'm not an expert in any of this, but it all happened so fast, like literally seconds to react that its very unlikely an conscious choice to hit or avoid that truck was actually made.

I don’t see this being realistic. The loss of the pilots is sad, but we don’t need to create narratives of heroism.

@sinovuyo001 Same since 1st cell phone in 1996-1997. This was it.

Who can honestly say they've had the same phone number for the last five years??

@BellaBaddie__ Boston's debut album

Name an album where you can listen to every song from the beginning to the end and not have the urge to skip a song?

@sciencegirl Early 90's, yes. No internet, news was just the 3 networks and CNN. It was just a slower world and much more social. You had to leave the house, very little could be delivered to you. Looking back there was a great value to not having everything be so convenient and instant

People who actually experienced the 1990s: What is something you miss from that decade that just isn't the same today