Post #954889
2026-04-06 11:06 UTC
Replies (24)
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@Quantensalat@scicomm.xyz 2026-04-06 11:13
@_thegeoff Reminds me of Collins' suggestion that Armstrong should step on the moon, exclaim "What the hell is this thing" and cut the mic. So you're in good company
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@diekehrseite@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 11:50
@_thegeoff 😂 i love that idea!
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@RGBes@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 12:16
@_thegeoff Clarke wrote on the author's note of 2010 that the Apollo 8 crew confessed to him they considered the idea of reporting the finding of a huge black monolith on the far side of the Moon (they already had seen 2001)
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@davidbcohen@twit.social 2026-04-06 12:53
@_thegeoff You know the crew will be replaced by evil duplicates while on the far side, of course.
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@vxo@digipres.club 2026-04-06 12:53
@_thegeoff https://theevolutioncontrolcommittee.bandcamp.com/track/the-fucking-moon
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@shaungriffith@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 13:02
@_thegeoff Wasn't it 18 hours in Contact? Surely some ridiculously longer time would be better? But some of the onboard electronics will be tamper proof, and if nothing else, when they return, it will get sorted out.
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@huronbikes@cyberplace.social 2026-04-06 13:05
*rigs all clocks to be fast by 320 minutes* *thrust control fires for Earth reentry early, changing trajectory to a collision course* @_thegeoff shortly before the Artemis crew capsule experiences a rapid unscheduled disassembly: "heh, got 'em!"
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@nowster@fedi.nowster.me.uk 2026-04-06 13:08
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social "All right! Did you remember to pack the ape suits?"
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to 2026-04-06 13:09
@_thegeoff Given they had difficulities killing an errant OUtlook process on the thing and they're still a few hundred thousand km from home, I wouldn't be touching _nothing_ on that capsule.
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@galacticstone@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 13:43
@_thegeoff This is exactly why you should have been chosen as commander of the mission.
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@Robo105@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 13:43
@_thegeoff I like the way you think
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@eigen@mattstodon.panar.ooo 2026-04-06 14:05
@_thegeoff I would also be delighted if 3 of those onboard started behaving as though the fourth were not, and never had been 😁
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@Goldmaster@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 14:06
Or they rendezvous with a vulcan ship, then beam aboard saying get us out of here!
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@robcornelius@climatejustice.social 2026-04-06 14:24
@_thegeoff if it was me I would black out all comms for 23 extra minutes after contact should be restored. The first message would be "kick out the jamms motherfuckers".
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@DrHyde@fosstodon.org 2026-04-06 15:21
@_thegeoff whereas in reality they're rigging them to show that six hours *hadn't* passed
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@n1xnx@tilde.zone 2026-04-06 15:39
@_thegeoff I keep hearing reporters say that "no human eye has seen the far side before." Umm, wait a minute there. The Apollo program featured TEN (correction: NINE) missions that orbited the Moon. Do these folks seriously mean to say that in all of those lunar missions, the crewmember left in Moon orbit during the mission NEVER ONCE LOOKED OUT THE CSM WINDOW while passing over the far side? That seems rather unlikely...
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@pheraph@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 16:40
@_thegeoff @claudius So, basically Star Trek TNG - Conundrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conundrum_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
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@softproof@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 20:02
@_thegeoff If I were on Artemis I'd keep reminding everyone how Apollo 8 got there faster, quietly, and AI-free. Naturally I'd get shot through the airlock soon enough. So, either way, that's why I'm not on Artemis.
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net 2026-04-06 21:05
@_thegeoff everybody knows moon's haunted
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@drreid@mastodon.social 2026-04-07 00:28
@_thegeoff I saw Contact. I know what happened during the missing time.
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@itgrrl@infosec.exchange 2026-04-07 12:36
@_thegeoff
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@kim@fedi.social 2026-04-06 13:38
@_thegeoff@mastodon.social Yeahbut the way things are going they'd probably just assume it was some sort of Microsoft timezone bug.
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@jamesb@fedi.duckduckpigeon.co.uk 2026-04-06 15:15
@_thegeoff Return on the video link with those blacked out contact lenses like something out of Event Horizon.
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@kasperd@westergaard.social 2026-04-06 16:58
How do you know that you were not allowed on the Artemis?