NASA funding is dependent on public opinion (well it was until recently). Blowing up rockets gets people really upset when they think it’s their tax dollars.

Somehow SpaceX has convinced people it’s a private company and not funded by government contracts and taxes.

It is posted in a meme community, not /c/SuperDuperAccurateHistory if that matters.

I don’t know anybody that uses em-dashes in day to day writing. Seems strange to brag that you do that.

You were going to complain no matter what Spain did…

Innocent bcz of cuteness overload! Acquitted of all charges!

Being homeless is essentially criminalized in most countries. So where do you propose we do that?

Thank you for explaining the joke, I now know less.

In the federal budget context, that is literally a few dollars. It is super disingenuous to compare it to the budget of a single person.

Shocked Pikachu

This couldn’t possibly have been avoided

It’s called Project Hail Mary you ding dong! We sent someone there in a last ditch effort to save the Earth!

Did you even read the article? They say all over the paper that it is fake. And they didn’t feed it to an LLM, they posted it online, where an LLM trying to scrape the entire internet sucked it up.

But, it IS fetch!

Could be, I haven’t asked or answered a question there in a long time. Most of my questions got down voted anyway, so it was hard to get answers to stuff.

They were always notorious for expecting every question to be applicable to everyone else, so if it was even sort of specific, the question got dowvoted.

This just in, guy who lies all the time lied again.

Yeah, that wasn’t clear from their post.

Happened to me too, and I still like her 8 years later. Its the worst!

What you meant to say is “I’m trying to sealion everyone”

Gross, why would I want to preserve that orange sack of goo?

The addition of the music makes it 10 times funnier.

They left LEO a while ago. But, point taken. Kinda funny that they could be “technically” closer to him than someone across the country.