Not bad! Nine-and-a-half months is as long as a microgravity trip to Mars would be, even if astronauts took the slow, fuel-saving route to getting there.

I love that the viewing area there looks just like the cockpit of the Millenium Falcon

My favorite part is where she describes her spacesuit as a “little spaceship built for one.”
*Sighs, heads off to read Have Spacesuit, Will Travel again*

China really doesn’t want to have to deal with that, its in everyone’s best interest if we just leave North Korea alone

Yeah.....she gets to punch any flat-earther right in the face without penalty. (Once she gets her strength back. After that long in space, gravity is a major bitch to get used to.)

Brilliant

They need a place that has few people and few deadly obstacles. It’s why the US chose the ocean until the Space Shuttle came along. I haven’t been to Kazakhstan, but it looks relatively flat over large areas and is very wide (nearly 1800 miles,) making the chance of missing it small. Starting from nearly 8…

It’s just my allergies.

Neither Russia nor China would ever “nuclear defend” North Korea. NK has nothing they need or want, but is actually a tremendous headache with no signs of ever stopping. Neither would trade nukes with the US, guaranteeing their own destruction, for the sake of North Korea. LOL.

“My eyes will search the horizon to see that curve”

Probably because she’s overqualified. ;-)

“She was actually supposed to return in June, the AP reports, “[b]ut when an extra seat opened up on this Soyuz, she jumped at the chance to stay in orbit an extra three months.””

I love Peggy because she’s brave and is doing a job that I can’t even think about for more than 4 minutes without feeling sick. I often snatch a moment to wonder what would be worse, being in a space ship or a submarine (don’t get me started on Kim Wall.)

You are right! Poor poor black man.. He’s just a victim that released a song where he says Taylor should have sex with him and also photoshoped her naked in bed...

That’s how these rightwing nutjobs see everything: anyone who does something bad on their side is an exception/outlier/non-issue. Anyone who does something bad on the other side (liberals/minorities/non-Christians/etc.) is a representative of the whole side. One person does something extreme, and it’s proof that the…

Looked for the Slim Pickens shot riding the bomb but this one seemed more maga-appropriate.

The best hope we have at avoiding a war at this point is that, given her track record of successfully persuading her father’s behavior, Ivanka tells him that he should absolutely immediately launch an all out attack against North Korea.

Schrodinger’s Douchebag: an idiot who says something offensive, and either claims they were “just joking, don’t you have a sense of humor” or repeats and expands on it depending on the reaction it receives.