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#3477804 4-Apr-2026 08:43

Batman: really curious what the flat earth tube are saying about these pics.

It'll be the usual cries of "fake" with the added bonus of now being able to scream "AI". Nothing here to be curious about at all.

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#3478183 5-Apr-2026 09:23

More toilet problems. Frozen urine line solved by rotating the capsule to face the sun:

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/04/science/artemis-2-toilet-malfunction

Urine is flushed into space. Turds are compacted and return to Earth with the capsule. I wonder why.

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#3478192 5-Apr-2026 09:56

gzt: More toilet problems. Frozen urine line solved by rotating the capsule to face the sun:

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/04/science/artemis-2-toilet-malfunction

Urine is flushed into space. Turds are compacted and return to Earth with the capsule. I wonder why.

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#3478246 5-Apr-2026 10:23

Does anyone know why they needed 4 people in there? By the sound of they just needed a pilot and an IT tech to finish the Outlook Classic upgrade to Outlook New.

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#3478250 5-Apr-2026 10:37

Batman:

really curious what the flat earth tube are saying about these pics. they have great imagination of invention those people.

I've been trying to work out this photo is - what that narrow connection is between the two land masses at 8 o'clock in the photo.

Thought it might be Bab-el-Mandeb in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden where Djibouti is close to Yemen - but I'm not sure.

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#3478256 5-Apr-2026 11:16

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Batman:

really curious what the flat earth tube are saying about these pics. they have great imagination of invention those people.

I've been trying to work out this photo is - what that narrow connection is between the two land masses at 8 o'clock in the photo.

Thought it might be Bab-el-Mandeb in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden where Djibouti is close to Yemen - but I'm not sure.

That'll be Spain and Africa.

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#3478258 5-Apr-2026 11:17

Kookoo: Does anyone know why they needed 4 people in there? By the sound of they just needed a pilot and an IT tech to finish the Outlook Classic upgrade to Outlook New.

The lunar moon base phase will require people on the surface to build it and live there. The people have to get there somehow.

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#3478260 5-Apr-2026 11:21

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Batman: really curious what the flat earth tube are saying about these pics.

It'll be the usual cries of "fake" with the added bonus of now being able to scream "AI". Nothing here to be curious about at all.

It's often worth explaining to people that given the state of film recording in the late 60's, it would have been harder to fake the moon landings than to actually go to the moon.

This explains it well.

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#3478264 5-Apr-2026 12:14

Kookoo:

Does anyone know why they needed 4 people in there? By the sound of they just needed a pilot and an IT tech to finish the Outlook Classic upgrade to Outlook New.

So... a pilot and a CoPilot?

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#3478274 5-Apr-2026 13:27

Kookoo:

Does anyone know why they needed 4 people in there? By the sound of they just needed a pilot and an IT tech to finish the Outlook Classic upgrade to Outlook New.

they are the mechanics, the computer repair guy, firefighter team, the software engineer, satellite technician, rocket scientist, the doctor, your mother, toilet plumber, cleaner, everything

if something or someone breaks they fix it or die

this thing flies by gravity and has not enough power to get itself back

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#3478859 7-Apr-2026 15:54

In the Apollo era communications were brisk and businesslike. In the Artemis Age they lactate sentiment and gooiness. Somewhere along the way, the Right Stuff has been evacuated into space!

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#3478910 7-Apr-2026 21:30

Rikkitic:

In the Apollo era communications were brisk and businesslike. In the Artemis Age they lactate sentiment and gooiness. Somewhere along the way, the Right Stuff has been evacuated into space!

Graduates of the Star Fleet Academy?

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#3479269 8-Apr-2026 16:13

I don't want to disparage in any way the achievements of the Artemis missions. I think they are an essential step in human evolution and exploration of the cosmos. They should have happened in the 1970s. But I just can't see the point of the 'crewed' journey of Artemis II. I don't see what they are doing that couldn't be done with the mannikins of Artemis I. They are passengers, not astronauts, along for a fun and very expensive ride. It is kind of pathetic the way NASA commentators keep trying to justify their presence by insisting they are doing real science by looking at the moon. They are not. They are doing group hugs and singing kumbaya. These are not the no-nonsense astronauts I remember from the 1960s.

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#3479270 8-Apr-2026 16:15

Rikkitic:

I don't want to disparage in any way the achievements of the Artemis missions. I think they are an essential step in human evolution and exploration of the cosmos. They should have happened in the 1970s. But I just can't see the point of the 'crewed' journey of Artemis II. I don't see what they are doing that couldn't be done with the mannikins of Artemis I. They are passengers, not astronauts, along for a fun and very expensive ride. It is kind of pathetic the way NASA commentators keep trying to justify their presence by insisting they are doing real science by looking at the moon. They are not. They are doing group hugs and singing kumbaya. These are not the no-nonsense astronauts I remember from the 1960s.

you realise its testing the life support, habitability, communications etc etc for future launches/missions

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#3479272 8-Apr-2026 16:18

Jase2985:

you realise its testing the life support, habitability, communications etc etc for future launches/missions

Sure, but that can be done with instruments. Or they can add a couple monkeys again. The human cargo is just that: cargo.

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