Normally I'd be more excited about a moon mission, but I'd vastly prefer if any other nation was doing it.

[buzz@sip.masto.host]

@Gargron

tell the truth, you're sad about the strikes in Novorossiysk

[jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net]

@Gargron You might be surprised to learn how many parts of the Artemis missions are actually from Europe via ESA and other parts of the world. The US doesn't like to share that, but it's true

Example: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Exploration/Orion/European_Service_Module

[halaana@mastodon.social]

@sarble Give a septuagenarian a chance to be the first man on the Sun?

[gargron@mastodon.social]

@buzz Why would I be sad about that?

[stinerman@mastodon.social]

@Gargron Same...and I'm an American.

[orangelantern@labyrinth.zone]

@Gargron It's not the astronauts or the NASA team putting this all together bombing Iran though. ️

You can point out that the US regime sucks and hope they get their ass handed to them, and yet still be excited about this mission.

There is a trend of sweeping generalization, in lots of other areas as well, killing all nuance. I watch this with worry.

[mcwabbit@tenforward.social]

@Gargron
I wish I had the energy to muster more enthusiasm for this historic mission. But as the world is burning, my mind and priorities are elsewhere.

[lefteristrip23@mastodon.social]

@Gargron I just think of it as nasa doing it and not US. Plus it wasn't nasa alone, it was nasa + esa + other countries. They just launched from US

[agonio@social.vivaldi.net]

@Gargron I put it like this: "Every dollar spent for a space mission is a dollar not spent for war"

It helps me at least

[bookstardust@bildung.social]

@Gargron i would like to abolish national states and travel as humanity to the moon
But at this point i would root for china to make it to the moon before the US

[buzz@sip.masto.host]

@Gargron
cause you're a russian asset

[gargron@mastodon.social]

@buzz And this is because..?

[mnf@mastodon.social]

@Gargron Do they have to kiss the ring upon returning?

[madmonkey@mastodon.uno]

@Gargron, I follow @buzz, and is really funny. He is sarcastic, I guess.

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@Gargron My feelings exactly, Sir.

[gargron@mastodon.social]

@Madmonkey @buzz If it's a joke, it doesn't come across that way.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Gargron

' #NASA astronaut #VictorGlover, recently named as the pilot of the #ArtemisII #Artemis2 #Artemis mission around the Moon, listens to #GilScottHeron's poem "Whitey on the Moon" twice a week on the way to work'

Artemis II pilot Victor Glover wants to talk about "Whitey on the Moon" with his colleagues

"Where we were in 1968, when humans first set out on this voyage, our country is in a very similar place now."

Axios (web.archive.org)

A rat done bit my sister Nell
(with Whitey on the Moon)
Her face and arms began to swell
(and Whitey's on the Moon)
I can't pay no doctor bill
(but Whitey's on the Moon)
Ten years from now I'll be paying still
(while Whitey's on the Moon)

#BlackMastodon

[evoscale@c.im]

@Gargron There are multiples more concerns Earth bound, so wasting more vital resources on even further value spaces, is amateurish at best.

[haaflife@ohai.social]

@Gargron any scientific advancement from this mission would immediately find its way into the military industrial complex and be used against innocents in the next genocide. Thankfully, the scientific value of the mission is very limited. I'm just angry that us Europeans collaborate with the fascists on this mission

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@Gargron @Madmonkey @buzz

it's not funny or a joke, unless someone considers casual bigotry "a funny joke"