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Stuff we should click on.  Be sure to state Not Work Safe, if applicable.  KTHX.
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I really should have posted this in the MSM thread because if that headline isn't clickbait, I don't know what is.
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Imagine you're a moon landing conspiracy nut and you see this article claiming we need to beat China to the moon's surface.

Another article about the same thing, but calling it a space race.
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I feel like this says a lot about the state of those two countries right now.
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Image of asteroids that you've never seen before.

That's pretty cool. I wonder what the odds are of something like that happening?
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Earth's orbit is becoming a shit show.

It'll be interesting to see what solutions they create.
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I predict semi-autonomous satellite eating satellites.

Most likely from SpaceX.
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Speaking of general space, I was daydreaming about all those secret military satellites up there. Wondering what they were capable of.

Wondering if the military wondered.

Then I connected some dots.... You know that weird air force space plane that looks like a stubby shuttle, and they were all like "hey awesome this thing just spent 2.5 years in orbit doing sooper secret military stuff."

I bet a dollar it spent that time conserving fuel, changing orbits, and getting within inches of foreign military satellites taking pictures of every millimeter, from every angle.

How would they know?
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GORDON wrote: Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:56 am You know that weird air force space plane that looks like a stubby shuttle
The SR-71?
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I don't know. Is that the one that looks like a stubby space shuttle?
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It's the one that can [REDACTED].
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We're landing on the moon today for the first time in 50 years.

This doesn't even warrant its own link on CNN's front page. WTF are we doing as a society? Our priorities are all fucked.
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