The Deuce: It’s crazy that in 20 minutes they’ve already passed the farthest distance…

This is the Artemis II Game Thread - ATL Yesterday, 9:22:24

I haven’t seen it reported, but what is the objective of this mission* - TarheelIllini Today, 9:10:05
- Visiting some basketball recruits* - IlliniRunner Today, 14:03:57
- If man's reach does not exceed his grasp, then what separates us from the common ape?* - Sammich Today, 13:46:27
  - The ability to manufacture pharmaceuticals from ordinary household products. * - doubledown Today, 15:27:04
- To find a cute little rock alien friend* - ATL Today, 12:49:04
  - amaze! amaze! amaze!* - IlliniRunner Today, 14:04:25
- Jinx put Max in space. Jinx and Max: Friends Forever!* - shua Today, 12:44:58
  - iunderstoodthatreference.gif - VIV Today, 12:59:42
- Ultimate goal I hope is to be able to mine 16 Psyche as much as we can - timmer Today, 12:17:39
- to go where no man has gone before 1968 * - ijustkrushalot Today, 11:04:45
- To help Coop/Murph transmit quantum data through the black hole* - UofIL6 Today, 10:58:56
  - they should just try using gravity - IlliniSax05 Today, 11:07:51
- To test and refine the tech to allow us to establish a moon base - DT Today, 10:08:29
- TO STEAL THE MOON!!!* - shua Today, 9:48:07
  - Lulz…this is probably the movie our household quotes most often* - PapaDels Today, 10:52:39
- To re-open the Straight of Hormuz.* - Warrin'_Illini Today, 9:29:16
  - I thought it was to keep the moon from developing nuclear weapons* - Stu Today, 9:36:25
Manned space flight is cool and an incredible technological achievement - DT Today, 6:09:47
- We are spending hundreds of billions to develop AI and robots to take all our jobs - DT Today, 11:06:42
- Let's focus on SPACE, DT! The United States of SPACE! Cause I ain't stoppin' at the moon! - Carl Spackler Today, 9:27:58
- Space, DT. It's the final frontier. * - VIV Today, 9:10:43
- *I don’t believe you .gif here* * - voiceofreason Today, 8:53:41
- It seemed like a small unifying moment for the world when those moments are sorely lacking - OrangeSox Today, 8:39:51
- You could say instead “I don’t know about the benefits to humanity that space flight has created - meanjeans Today, 8:33:43
  - It's also hard to detach how much the program helped advance tech - Potomac Today, 12:46:49
  - I’ll admit zero was an exaggeration. Cost that far far far outweigh the benefits is more accurate * - DT Today, 10:03:14
    - And the folks that talk about space colonization are idiots. - DT Today, 10:05:56
      - Why isn't Gregg Phillips in charge of NASA? - ghost_of_clt Today, 10:32:50
- it's like $100 per taxpayer* - John Coctostan Today, 8:29:33
- OTOH, they bring long term brain damage to the astronauts due to cosmic ray tracking - Stu Today, 8:21:45
  - Were you an astronaut, Stu?* - Illiniphil Today, 8:46:06
    - I'm shocked that you are capable of thinking of such clever things* - Stu Today, 8:54:20
  - Just saw that on an episode of High Potential. - Tuscy Today, 8:44:30
    - She always looks like she's a step away from being a redneck crack whore - ibdoc Today, 9:01:54
      - I mean, that's half the apeeal! * - Tuscy Today, 15:31:04
    - It's got absurd plotlines, but the show is a fun watch, esp with Kaitlin and her legs. ;-) - Kajagoogoo Today, 8:51:20
- I thought that, then toured Kennedy and saw the benefits gained from the space shuttle (see inside!) - ibdoc Today, 8:06:21
  - tell me DT says dumb things without telling me DT says dumb things - bbonb Today, 11:56:21
- Nah, I wish we'd spend more* - illini21 Today, 7:47:31
- Why do you hate Tang?* - ATL Today, 7:37:40
  - He drove K-State basketball in the ground* - KCWildcat Today, 7:44:11
Two instances of outlook? - ATL Today, 5:32:14
- Artemis Poo - bbonb Today, 7:24:39
huge, if true - MC Yesterday, 19:50:04
- I’ll take ‘Places Smush won’t go’ for $500, Alex* - TarheelIllini Today, 9:09:37
- Low flow?* - ATL Yesterday, 19:58:06
  - What happens when the poo leaves the butthole? - complainant Yesterday, 20:03:54
    - yes, and one could debate the semantics of the definition of a toilet, perhaps* - Potomac Yesterday, 20:51:26
When do the get to put their tray tables down?* - biclops Yesterday, 17:58:53
Meh - timmer Yesterday, 17:57:20
- are they at the moon yet? Otherwise what is there to say?* - Potomac Yesterday, 18:35:06
  - There is one woman and three guys who will be in blackout on the far side - Stu Yesterday, 19:47:46
    - Heads up, seven up? - IlliniSax05 Yesterday, 20:53:50
  - Not until 2028* - shua Yesterday, 18:36:59
    - I count "at" as being in orbit; ok I guess the blah flyby counts, too* - Potomac Yesterday, 18:37:36
      - NYT says equivalent of Apollo 8. No, those guys orbited* - Potomac Yesterday, 18:46:00
- Wait until they tell him one of the astronauts is Canadian * - shua Yesterday, 18:03:58
It’s crazy that in 20 minutes they’ve already passed the farthest distance… - shua Yesterday, 17:56:35

there's an argument that the space shuttle was a mistake - ijustkrushalot Today, 9:29:44

That was awesome* - illini21 Yesterday, 17:43:09
- haha the CNN guy just called it a perfect symphony of space* - assassin Yesterday, 17:45:44
Camera views have been trash for this* - shua Yesterday, 17:40:13
- CBS missed the liftoff because they kept the view on the pad for too long - RVA Yesterday, 17:43:46
  - NepoBaby TV falling down * - ATL Yesterday, 18:06:38
  - That was the same feed NASA YouTube had* - shua Yesterday, 17:54:27
  - Yeh I really needed to see that fatass Trump supporter drinking beer* - Stu Yesterday, 17:45:08
I used to watch the Mercury launches on a little black an white - Stu Yesterday, 17:32:25
- I went to a ticker tape parade in Chicago for John Glenn - Potomac Yesterday, 18:35:41
  - My brother got locked in John Glenn’s office one night - Stu Yesterday, 19:45:56
  - What year? - TarheelIllini Yesterday, 18:42:48
- I watched the challenger blow up in 3rd grade and then they told us to go back to class - ATL Yesterday, 18:07:51
Mike Hopkins on the CBS News stream* - ECEIllinois Yesterday, 17:10:52
- Good time to rep the O&B. - osklister Yesterday, 17:41:44
  - He came right up to me a couple years ago when he saw my orange Illini polo* - opossum jenkins Yesterday, 17:48:48
FYI for anyone else like me who is captivated with this stuff. CNN actually has had some great - voiceofreason Yesterday, 10:17:06
- CGI has really benefited from AI. It all looks so real now* - bbonb Yesterday, 10:57:53
Please don't blow up. * - doubledown Yesterday, 9:54:34
- If it does, guess whose fault it will be* - Stu Yesterday, 10:43:18
  - Is it biclops?* - DocWalk20 Yesterday, 15:54:53
  - Why would Biden do this to us? * - doubledown Yesterday, 10:47:46
on April 1st? Right. Nice try NASA* - bbonb Yesterday, 9:49:33
$20 says the crew thanks Trump for his tremendous achievement - timmer Yesterday, 9:26:27

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