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If there’s four people on the flight to the moon, why are only two of them landing? Are there things going on the mothership that need two sets of eyes to monitor? If they’re using SpaceX to land, there is so much room available that they could carry their entire capsule down to the surface, and fly it back up to

I have never heard whether there are lava tubes anywhere near either pole. That would be interesting, wouldn’t it? We need a lava tube with a nice smooth ramp down into the subsurface, else land some sort of plow to build the ramp, and we could go to town, or even build the town.

They’ve been taking those photos from orbit for years, with closeups of the bottom halves of LEMs, flags bleached white by the sun, the footprints the astronauts left behind, all the science packages, etc. It has not made a single bit of the difference to these yahoos.

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Kim Jong-Il didn’t get COVID before he died; I don’t play golf, so I don’t know if he still could have gotten the the 10 holes in one. The kid is Kim Jong Un.

George, why does the video say a four day transit time while the graphic says “outbound transit” 8-14 days? Apollo took 3 days as I remember (I just looked at the timeline of Apollo 12). I don’t think there’s an option to go to the moon with our foot on the brakes, so I’m not sure what they contemplate doing..

For a couple of decades, I used to some time in the summer on a beach just south of Alpena Michigan, and when I walked the dog, last thing at night, I would walk to the shore and just stop and stare up at the Milky Way. The longer you stayed, the better your night vision got, and you could pick out more stars. The

Thank you for tapping into the SNL files for that image.

I guess I envision hillbilly commsats.

Who owns the launch site in French Guiana? Make nice for the new guy and build them a pad there, so the launch rate can pick up quickly.

I’ve seen all three movies, and Vikander’s portrayal was certainly superior to Jolie’s. Vikander’s face doesn’t have any issue expressing emotions.

Get rid of interleague play. I’d be going to a lot more games then I’ve gone to since that was instituted.

Yeah, this is really ‘drawing the short straw’ kind of stuff.

You don’t like prequels? How can you say that when series about dinosaurs are so popular with the whole family!

I adore this movie, and when watched every year or so, it holds up so very well.

Watch Black Bird and Paul Walker Hauser and you won’t sleep for the rest of the week.

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Boy, I’d almost given up on seeing a sequel to the movie 405! Christ I’d no idea that it had been 22 years.

I miss Anne McCaffrey.

Eight and a half months pregnant. The appointment the family was going to was that last appointment before the birth.

What a disastrous plan. This guy is going to be famous in 2-3 years for how much money he’s hemorrhaged from this company.