No seriously, I’m average….Sure I am.

You are too, probably,,,

Artemis II is on the way to the moon.

I am actually surprised the systems worked well enough for NASA to decide to do the TLI burn.

I wish them luck and a good and successful mission and hope they return home safely.

If the only toilet for the next 9 days is a bag and a funnel.

Toilet breaks on Orion spacecraft hours into flight

Lets hope that the rest of engineering is more robust….

7:3 that Artemis is cancelled by NASA today as they decide to redo a “go around the Moon” flight first performed in 1968 by the crew of Apollo 8. or that it fails and is cancelled before they depart for the lunar flyby.

I really don’t think I’d have the intestinal fortitude to fly on a rocket or spacecraft as designed and launched by the people at NASA today. So far they have ONE successful (unmanned) flight, which had serious heat shield issues, and now are going to swing around the moon with zero intermediate steps to test things like life support  or other systems, much less maneuverability in space……Testing everything at once on one flight and hoping for the best, I guess.

Hats off to the brave folks who are willing to try it though.

In space no one can hear you scream.

I find it apropos that they are launching on April Fool’s day.

Remember, these are the same type of bureaucrat that chose to ignore the SRB manufacturer’s advice and launch Space Shuttle Challenger back in 1986, leading to disaster

We’ve spent a lot of money at NASA and not gotten much  except failure in the past 20 years or so.

ETA: I was, apparently, wrong about the launch. That part went off without any apparent hitches other than a few stoppages in the prelaunch checklist.

Also: Katy Perry could not be reached for comment.

Several  excellent contributions from viewers from last week too!

“ “Hate Speech” is still free speech”

“If you focus on the bad in your life you miss out on all of the good” (Joe)

“The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down” (OldNFO)

“When somebody prefaces their remarks with “I don’t mean to be a dick, but…” be assured that they fully intend to be a “dick” and they want to also be seen as righteous while they are one” (Eaton Rapids Joe)

“Remember: anything the government gives someone, they took from someone else first”

“Not all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear the path for better”

“The people who matter will not leave you for having boundaries”

“Relationships and friendships end. How you behave afterwards demonstrates your character”

on this platform and move to X.

The pay is better.

Gotta love the artwork

Entire DNC to quit politics and invest in Somali daycare centers.

“There’s more money in daycares than you can make in politics!”

Both sides are guilty of this, somewhat.

None of them really appear to know exactly what they are protesting, or why.

I think it just shows that they are sheep.

17:2 the venn diagrams overlap with the “support Ukraine” crowd and the “Support Palestine” crowd…

They just protest whatever the y are currently told to.

Useful (or not so useful) idiots.