Manned Artemis II moon circle launch systems in the green

[jaffles]

Originally Posted by unluky

I think people just don't get it anymore. It is not TikTok so they lose interest fast. I made my GF kids watch SpaceX fire the first humans into space by a private company with me. They had no idea it was even happening. I told them someday you will remember when you saw the FIRST humans fired into space by a private citizen. It kind of stirred something in them now as they ask me about SpaceX, Starship, and Artemis sometimes now.

Someday they will probably see humans being fired into space all the time by private companies and I hope they tell their kids "I remember the first one......"

They think it is like a car ride. I try and explain that one of a trillion things could go wrong and they would just float off into space and we would have NO HOPE of saving them. None. It would keep going forever with dead bodies in it till the end of time.

It really sank in with me when I heard Elon say "if we are not trying to get Humans to another planet - we are just waiting to go extinct" That is 100% right and I never really thought of it that way.

Now if Humans should be allowed to infect another planet or not is another questions, but at least the moon and Mars are already mostly "dead", so we can't fuck up as much shit as we do here. LOL

Think its the safe, predictable, look at me or have it now world we have created. And further more someone or something will save you. Well in Australia anyway.

Elon could shoot for eradicating poverty, small thinking, racism, bigotry, plastic pollution, deforestation, housing etc but I guess there is no look at me in that.

[unluky]

Originally Posted by jaffles

Think its the safe, predictable, look at me or have it now world we have created. And further more someone or something will save you. Well in Australia anyway.

Elon could shoot for eradicating poverty, small thinking, racism, bigotry, plastic pollution, deforestation, housing etc but I guess there is no look at me in that.

But I guess you could too, but here you are posting about Elon instead.........

[MassWholeBimmer]

Splashdown ETA 8:07 PM eastern time. Cant wait. Great achievement. Hope they are safe..

[M5Rick]

Perfect safe entry into the Earth's atmosphere and safe splashdown was exactly on time.

[chassis]

They did it! Congrats to all involved!

[ezaircon4jc]

I was a bit disappointed that, at least here, there was no sonic boom