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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.
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.
Nah other way around. The astronauts asked a NASA administrator if they are still on the line or if there was a handover. Then Tump replied “I am, yes, I am”.
This is fucking amazing
Yes they were actually very polite, they knew they were speaking with a demented narcissist.
Pedophile
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.
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.
Every single shot or thumbnail I see of Victor Glover just looks like he’s tired of this shit and everything he’s putting up with.
couldn’t fit them all in the top comment
spoiler
Thats called Resting Bitch Face. Its more common than you think
In space, no one can hear your cringe
… but we can see it.
“oh you’re breaking up i think we’re going through a tunnel”
After 30 seconds of akward silence they asked if the connection was okay, it was beautiful to see
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.
“Wait I think there is someone outside the airlock, we will go and check!”
Maybe they’ve got some Farscape episodes on their computers. Probably watching them enviously.
Will ICE be waiting for them?
I’d like to commend Trump for lowering himself to talk to a woman and shudder A Black
He’s not black, he’s a “low IQ individual.” That’s the phrase he ALWAYS uses when referring to a black person.
Don’t forget “thugs”
Funnily enough. There’s no woman nor person of color farther away from him than these two.
Lucky, lucky people
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.
All the sci-fi movies? Can I get some recommendations?
Not a movie, but a music video for a great song
I enjoyed that, thanks!
I would not have clicked if not for this comment.
Did you enjoy too???
I did. I even downloaded.
Woah. Thanks for this.
Such a banger song and video.
Dr. Stone technically counts
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.
They also have to manage it in a way as not to cause a panic because billions of people, will die. Because they literally cannot send everyone.
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.
Like most of Neals books I found this book long and meandering, so I dropped it after a while, just wish he could better edit and pace his books. I enjoyed snow crash but every book of his I’ve tried since I could not finish.
I agree with this.
If you want someone with similar style stories that is less wandering, try Daniel Suarez.
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.
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.
“DEFCON-4” leaps to mind (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087130/).
Yeah the NASA twitch stream had to swap to emojis only.
🤡🤡🤡
🐔
🌮
I need a clip desperately of the chat
You can say an awful lot with emojis. Is there a transcript somewhere?
Brand new sentence
We feel you mister astronaut. The entire planet is with you.
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.
totally worth it.
free ride to the moon and a chance to
killmeet the most sadistic megalomaniac in history?hell yeah, sign me the fuck up!
It ain’t free. They’re on the clock, they’re being paid.
Even better!
I like the way you think lol
I’m not sure if “have to” is true. I’m sure they could refuse. The consequences might include not being an astronaut, but that’s probably the same as your option.
I would have stayed in moon orbit.
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.
Luckiest folks in the human race. Furthest from Trump.
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.
They could presumably be within 300 miles of him.
As of this writing they’re still over 300,000 km away from the Earth. https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/
Doh they’re going to the moon! I was thinking the ISS.
They were behind the moon. Now on the way back.
I hope they listened to that one cd
They left LEO a while ago. But, point taken. Kinda funny that they could be “technically” closer to him than someone across the country.
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Me when astronauts start blathering about the bible:
Yuppp
Epstein’s on the Moon, with email this time.
I got no space for joy about this moonshot, wish I did.
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.
‘4 brave astronuts’
