Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[Dancien]

Scientists trapped in Antarctica plead for help as violence breaks out

One of the team members has been accused of physical and sexual assault.

www.newsweek.com

Uh...I've seen this movie...

 

[Casey Pelous]

Scientists trapped in Antarctica plead for help as violence breaks out

One of the team members has been accused of physical and sexual assault.

www.newsweek.com

Uh...I've seen this movie...

According to the article:

South Africa's isolated Sanae IV Antarctic base is cut off from the world for the next 10 months because of the winter weather.

Huh? I'm no geographer, but I'm pretty sure the South Pole is located in the Southern Hemisphere, where it has been summer and is now in early autumn. It won't be winter there until June.

It's not like it's a hospitable place any time of the year, but is anybody with more than half-a-dozen brain cells proofreading anything anywhere anymore? Oh, it's Newsweek. I see.

 

[Dancien]

Yeah it is poorly written. However, in my head I am still using "The Thing" reference.

 

[Caete]

 

[Noodles]

We can rescue people from space, but not from Antarctica.

Granted, Space may actually be closer to most places on Earth than Antarctica.

 

[Free]

We can rescue people from space, but not from Antarctica.

Granted, Space may actually be closer to most places on Earth than Antarctica.

You want to fly space rocket to Antarctica, be my guest. Good luck rowing back.

 

[Free]

 

[Caete]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Man it just never ends with these loons I swear.

Love miniminuteman, btw!

 

[Free]

Blue Origin's all-female space flight apparently went off without a hitch.

Katy Perry, Gayle King and others reflect on their brief but historic trip to space

After returning from a brief trip to space, Katy Perry says she will definitely be writing a song about her experience.

Perry was one of six in an all-female crew that launched and landed safely on Monday morning aboard a rocket operated by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company. Other big names include journalist Gayle King and Bezos' fiancé, Lauren Sánchez.

The star-studded crew flew on Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle, which since 2021 has ferried dozens of scientists, entrepreneurs and celebrities above the Kármán line, the internationally recognized boundary of space, about 62 miles above Earth's surface.

It was the first all-female spaceflight since 1963, when Soviet-era cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova — the first woman in space — orbited the Earth during a nearly three-day solo flight.

Blue Origin's flight was significantly shorter, lasting 10 minutes and 21 seconds.

Katy Perry had things to say about the flight...

"I think that it's not about me, it's not about singing my songs, it's about a collective energy in there," Perry said afterward. "It's about making space for future women, and taking up space and belonging, and it's about this wonderful world that we see right out there and appreciating it. This is all for the benefit of Earth."

Perry brought a daisy on the flight, both because it's her daughter's name and a larger reminder.

"Daisies are common flowers but they grow through any condition ... they are powerful, they are strong, they are everywhere," she said after landing. "Flowers are to me God's smile, but it's also a reminder of our beautiful Earth ... and the beautiful magic that is everywhere, all around us, even in a simple daisy."

She and I are definitely not of the same species.

 

[CronoCloud Creeggan]

Blue Origin's all-female space flight apparently went off without a hitch.

I'm surprised that Oprah didn't go along with her "Best Friend Gayle KIIIIIIINNNGGG!"

 

[Free]

I'm surprised that Oprah didn't go along with her "Best Friend Gayle KIIIIIIINNNGGG!"

Oprah is a bit too smart for that. A bit.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

What a time to be alive

 

[Free]

What a time to be alive

The winner of the race will be the first sperm to cross the finish line.

Isn't that typically the winner under most racing conditions?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Blue Origin's all-female space flight apparently went off without a hitch.

I should be happy about this, but I can't stop remembering that this is a tourism rocket, its sole and only purpose is to let extremely wealthy people pay sickening amounts of money to go into space for 5 minutes just so they can say they've done it.

 

[Free]

I should be happy about this

Why? I can't say I'm particularly moved by it, except possibly in a tiny empathetic piece of me that doesn't care hearing of people dying needlessly.

 

[Noodles]

I should be happy about this, but I can't stop remembering that this is a tourism rocket, its sole and only purpose is to let extremely wealthy people pay sickening amounts of money to go into space for 5 minutes just so they can say they've done it.

It barely went to "Space" and Katy Perry is kind of a tool, so it's hard to get excited.

 

[Free]

It barely went to "Space" and Katy Perry is kind of a tool, so it's hard to get excited.

Just barely. But you know if I'd gone up in it, I'd be purposely bumping into complete strangers just to scream at them "Hey sorry about that, but I've been to FUCKING SPACE. THAT'S RIGHT, I AM TALKING ABOUT THE MOTHERFUCKING FINAL FRONTIER. AND I HAVE BEEN THERE." So I can't deny them that gold star.

 

[Free]

Oh, Wendy's...