This will probably sound real snooty or something, but back in my uni days (in a Classics Dept.), after hearing some Latin , I'd probably yell, "Hey! Greek!" I mean, look at a page of Latin, and then look at a page of Greek. I rest my case.
Honestly can't say I remember any specific moment, but I've seen, say, Captain Picard and Lt. Worf surrounded by angry Klingons and the like many times.
He's one of those "Up North they don't care how high a Black man gets as long as he doesn't get too close" people. (The Southern corollary is "Down South they don't care how close a Black man gets as long as he doesn't get too high.")
Did he even understand enough of the back and forth to realize things weren’t going his way? Or were Bondi and Lutnick whispering in each ear, “You totally got this, sir.”
It was a busy day for Tubby. I guess that’s why he couldn’t find the time to meddle with the moon launch. I was sure he was going to ground it until they renamed the rocket Trump Voyager 1.
"It will be traveling further than any manned rocket has ever flown and will very substantially pass the moon, go around it and come back home from a distance that has never been done before."
What a talent, he can make even a moon shot sound stupid.
The phrase "will very substantially pass the moon" will be cracking me up for days to come. Thank you, Mr. President, it's a new unit of astronomical distance, the "substantial."
And I wonder if this "farthest distance" thing was added by Jared Isaacman just to get Tubby interested? If your goal is to explore the moon, what you want is to get CLOSE TO THE MOON. Instead, they'll be thousands of miles farther from the moon than any of the Apollo missions, and why? Just to capture some stupid title, to get the dumbest man on earth briefly interested? "Did you pick out any good landing sites while in lunar orbit?" "Well, we were looking at it from fifty thousand miles up, so..."
I promise I'll shut up after this, but Apollo 10, the "dress rehearsal" for the moon landing, took the LEM within 9 miles of the lunar surface. Which was considered quite an accomplishment, because if your goal is to land, "closer" is more impressive than "farther." Of course Apollo 11 set the record for "closest of all" with a distance from the lunar surface of ZERO, imagine that!
But Apollo all happened in a less-dumb time. Today, it's like you're taking a flight from New York to London and the Captain is boasting over the intercom that you're farther from New York than any plane has ever been.
Wow. This is a first for this exceptional Substack: The post can't match the headline, not that the post was bad or anything, just that the headline was great.
Lately I've been thinking about who replaces him in the hearts of Republicans when he shuffles off this mortal coil, and my money's on Whiskey Pete. A real stand-out when it comes to viciousness and idiocy. Nobody can top him, get the fuck outta the way, JD.
Nah. He'll get tossed for not conquering Iran (hey, don't feel bad, folks have been trying for 3000 years). No, the MAGA faithful (now in decline due to the outbreak of FAFO) won't buy anybody that Republican Jesus kicked out. Nah, they're done. Farmers were pissed already, now no fertilizer? Sheeee-it. So few regular folks did better under the Fourth Reich that the faithful (now down to 22%, breaking the eternal 27% mark) that as a bloc, well, as Boss Man said, it will end with three dudes in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Dothan, AL. Nah, MAGA got hit in their heart, also known as their wallet. You can't piss off everybody, even trying to subvert voting, because somebody is gonna squeal. (and I know squeals).
Say, you've given me a great idea. I'll make millions. All is forgiven. Now, to tell my porcine brethren, poop = cash. (Pig shit is extraordinarily high in nitrogen. Omnivore. People shit, same same. Nitrogen baby. Look up "night soil'. Or don't, just think about it. How DO those rice paddies get fertilized?)
I just wish we had a president equipped with a jet that can spread human feces over a wide area. Those farmers would be holding No Kings demos right out in the cornfield in the hopes of getting a dump.
Motherfucker, do you have the temerity to question the Porcine Propellant Program. We've been working for years, but that is a hard lift. So fuck a whole bunch of you. Good day sir!
(yeah, I think he did it deliberately too. Stevie knows my buttons)
I was fully expecting Tubby to run his mouth and defy anyone to eject him from the proceedings, so it took me by surprise that he lost interest and left. He's probably putting a future speech in his back pocket, though, something like this, not unlike what we've heard before: "I've done more for the Blacks than any President ever. I even protected the rights of their babies to be U.S. citizens when we were getting rid of all those Chinese babies, Mexican babies, Honduran babies, Venezuelan babies, and all the rapists and thugs and drug dealers who made those babies. The Blacks love me for giving them such a generous carve out, yes they do, and they'll show me their love in 2028 in person when there won't be any more mail-in ballots. Hell, they love me so much there won't even need to be an election."
Maybe Alito's idiotic hypothetical about sleeper cells which he will describe as "the great speech by our greatest Supreme Court judge besides whatshisname the black guy, Norman Thomas."
I can imagine, Hamas terrorists come here, have a baby, the baby grows to adulthood and then... what? They commit some extra-special form of terrorism that only citizens are allowed to commit? Just FYI, Sam, the guys who flew the planes into the Trade Center were on tourist visas.
He went the way Family thugs show up at Mafia trials, to intimidate and remind everyone who's in charge. But listening to technical Constitutional arguments? BO-ring!
Anyone who uses beaners this much deserves to be well compensated. Why do all the right-wingnuts who decry the nonexistent prohibition against slurs not cite and use "beaner"?
It's my favorite, and so versatile. You can really show depth of ignorance by referring to everyone from Latin America as beaners, including Brazilians and Uruguayans.
Brazil, just a different bean, right? Frijoles, coffee, what's the difference? They all talk funny.
Speaking of beaners: In our area there was a very Northern European family with the odd last name "Beaner." I wonder if it was anglicized from "Bienør."
I guess the old fuckadoodledoo thought he could eyeball them into submission, as if he were a canny border collie and they were a flock of merinos. Didn’t happen, so he left. Or else he wet himself
But... but... it's all about the DOMICILE, doncha know. Say the guys with Ivy-League law degrees paid to bullshit up an argument. Also "subject to the jurisdiction thereof", such an inscrutable phrase, what could it possibly mean? C'mon, everybody, let's all pretend not to understand words, it's fun and highly lucrative!
One legacy of the Trump years, told around the campfire flickering in the gutted TV in the courtyard of Harvard Law School, will be tales of once-respectable attorneys who took on defending Trump’s executive orders and, three years later were disbarred and working at Arby’s in Cairo, Illinois. “Then he said the 14th Amendment was only for the children of slaves! May you never hear the level of mocking laughter that followed that poor soul to the end of his days.”
The solicitor generals voice is a dead ringer for Roy Brocksmith. I know him from the old 'Total Recall' movie (the drop of sweat that tells Arnuld this is real life) as well as Star Trek:TNG (Being beaten by Data in the Stratego game knockoff) and other roles. Not a well known actor, but memorable to me for that unique voice, and damn this Solicitor General sounds just like him, playing hell with my visualization of the court. Bear in mind, done retroactively, Marco Rubio would not be an American citizen. This is racism, pure and simple. It's a fucking Amendment, Herr Drumph.
It's all ridiculous nonsense, and yet here we are, all the way at the top, the highest court in the land. A thrilling testament to what large amounts of money paid to large amounts of lawyers can do.
Fortunately now Herr Drumph has pissed off so many lawyers (in addition to the rest of the free world) that he is down to this ShitFerBrains. If only Der Furher realized all his shit will be undone ASAP, assuming he doesn't blow up the world first.
I know I'd go to jail, but I've love to call Clarence Thomas a "house nigger" to his face, and see what happens. "You up in the big house now, so screw dem farm niggers". Not worth going to jail, I'm truly curious if that has any resonance at all, or that he's just a sociopath like Drumph.
ETA: I got kicked out of Eschathon by Atrios for saying he needed a "low tech lynching" back in Anita Hill hearing days. I stand by my assessment (and fuck a bunch of Atrios with rusty chainsaws)
Christ. Dunno why we hate the man. Dad's right, must just be some weird obsession we have. 😮💨
I've got a gout attack in my right wrist and that's why I'm not commenting more. Fuck this. I feel like the guy from "Whisperer In The Darkness", the one *SPOILER FOR HUNDRED YEAR OLD STORY* the mi-go hollow out and use as a puppet. Got so many things to do but I can't fucking DO any of them. Even though I'm taking off from work at Dismalco™ I am NOT having fun.
I must admit yesterday I got those 1969 feelings, which frankly I never thought would happen in my life again. Nothing can match the majesty of a Saturn V takeoff, seeing a skyscraper lift up so very slowly, but damn, not as majestic, but boy howdy damn I got that feeling again, spending days sleeping on the floor in front of the TV during Apollo 11. That's how it is done, you giant bottle rocker launcher Elon Musk. Although I admit, the loss of signal so early on caught me by surprise (and Houston too). "Houston transmitting blind, so and so..." Transmitting blind means you have no earthly (spaceley?) idea if your intended recipient can hear you. The fix? Houston rebooted all systems. May Bill Gates roast in the bowels of Hell, reboot is bad, not something that just happens. Real machines (big iron and small) don't reboot, and fuck Gates for normalizing that shit.
Oooh, that shot of the Saturn 5 lifting off, the letters "USA" crawl slowly past the camera. I don't do that patriotism shit, but damn, that one does get me.
Patriotism, Schmatiorism. , I make them go up / I don't care where they come down / That's not my department / Says Werhner Von Braun --Tom Lehrer.
Not an American thing, a technology thing, and that partnership still continues even with Russia and China (China with the THIRD OF A MILE wide radio telescope), no, the scientific community it its own country, one of which I very proudly a member (How old were you when you got your first letter from NASA? I was ten, and they very kindly explained to me how slow-scan television works in response to my question of the visuals. Eternal allegiance bought)
I respect the sentiment so many have about transcending our differences to marvel at the cosmos etc, and I get the argument that space exploration leads to a lot of practical discoveries, but all I see in those liftoffs is giant piles of money burning to put whitey back on the moon. And the only explanation I’ve heard for why they are doing it is to beat the Chinese in a race the Chinese aren’t participating in.
2 marks for the title.
[After hearing some Latin] Hey! English!
2 more marks!
This will probably sound real snooty or something, but back in my uni days (in a Classics Dept.), after hearing some Latin , I'd probably yell, "Hey! Greek!" I mean, look at a page of Latin, and then look at a page of Greek. I rest my case.
Now I'm imagining some tweedy, ivy-covered version of that "Tastes Great!/Less Filling!" beer commercial.
I assure you, it's more like Pabst vs. Old Milwaukee!
Oo. You almost had Steve there. If only you'da said "Old Madison"
LOL I googled that and only found a young looking Madison Beer
Hey! Estruscan!
11. "Sauer, your plane leaves tonight for your new job as dog catcher in the Alaskan tundra!"
12. "Hey, Mr. Dances With Wolves, these beaners are taking jobs away from your precious redskins!"
13. "Hey Jackson! Where's yer mask? Yeah, you – 'The Lone Holdout'! You're gone but Tonto stays! HaHaHa!"
??? Have I found a gag so American that even I, a fucking Canadian, don't get? lol
I've Confounded Canada! My work here is done.
Jackson: the court's newest member, who dissents on her lonesome from time to time.
Lone Holdout is in re: the above, and a play on the old Lone Ranger bit.
Tonto: the Lone Ranger's sidekick and a Native American (not to be confused with a first person). Tonto gets a pass.
Just to be clear, I know the Lone Ranger and Tonto! And I know who Justice Jackson is. I just didn't connect the dots!
(Do you know the old Lone Ranger wheeze that begins with him and Tonto surrounded by lots of hostile Native Americans?)
Honestly can't say I remember any specific moment, but I've seen, say, Captain Picard and Lt. Worf surrounded by angry Klingons and the like many times.
samesame
This is the rest:
[LONE RANGER] Looks like we're surrounded, Tonto!
[TONTO] What you mean, "we", Kemo-Sabe?
Bill Cosby: "What's this 'we' shit, White man?"
Same joke, different space-time continuum!
Stick around for the finale: https://youtu.be/SE-NdrzfFOo?si=lqus5r0RF2PA-kax
14. [fingers in ears] “LALALALA!! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!”
13. (More like) "Get that n****r out of here."
[Looks up at the bench] "Two out of nine, there goes the neighborhood"
He's one of those "Up North they don't care how high a Black man gets as long as he doesn't get too close" people. (The Southern corollary is "Down South they don't care how close a Black man gets as long as he doesn't get too high.")
Though the "how high" part is ready for revision. Now that any non-fascist Black person was a DEI hire who must be purged.
Did he even understand enough of the back and forth to realize things weren’t going his way? Or were Bondi and Lutnick whispering in each ear, “You totally got this, sir.”
It was a busy day for Tubby. I guess that’s why he couldn’t find the time to meddle with the moon launch. I was sure he was going to ground it until they renamed the rocket Trump Voyager 1.
"It will be traveling further than any manned rocket has ever flown and will very substantially pass the moon, go around it and come back home from a distance that has never been done before."
What a talent, he can make even a moon shot sound stupid.
The phrase "will very substantially pass the moon" will be cracking me up for days to come. Thank you, Mr. President, it's a new unit of astronomical distance, the "substantial."
And I wonder if this "farthest distance" thing was added by Jared Isaacman just to get Tubby interested? If your goal is to explore the moon, what you want is to get CLOSE TO THE MOON. Instead, they'll be thousands of miles farther from the moon than any of the Apollo missions, and why? Just to capture some stupid title, to get the dumbest man on earth briefly interested? "Did you pick out any good landing sites while in lunar orbit?" "Well, we were looking at it from fifty thousand miles up, so..."
I promise I'll shut up after this, but Apollo 10, the "dress rehearsal" for the moon landing, took the LEM within 9 miles of the lunar surface. Which was considered quite an accomplishment, because if your goal is to land, "closer" is more impressive than "farther." Of course Apollo 11 set the record for "closest of all" with a distance from the lunar surface of ZERO, imagine that!
But Apollo all happened in a less-dumb time. Today, it's like you're taking a flight from New York to London and the Captain is boasting over the intercom that you're farther from New York than any plane has ever been.
Wow. This is a first for this exceptional Substack: The post can't match the headline, not that the post was bad or anything, just that the headline was great.
The dumbest most repellant asshole in history is in charge and there's nothing anyone can do about it-
" The price of gas just doubled! "
" Shucks!"
" The economy is collapsing!"
"Dagnabit!"
" World War III is starting and we're all gonna die !"
" Goddamn Joe Biden!"
Republicans could end this in less than a week if they chose to.
Lately I've been thinking about who replaces him in the hearts of Republicans when he shuffles off this mortal coil, and my money's on Whiskey Pete. A real stand-out when it comes to viciousness and idiocy. Nobody can top him, get the fuck outta the way, JD.
Nah. He'll get tossed for not conquering Iran (hey, don't feel bad, folks have been trying for 3000 years). No, the MAGA faithful (now in decline due to the outbreak of FAFO) won't buy anybody that Republican Jesus kicked out. Nah, they're done. Farmers were pissed already, now no fertilizer? Sheeee-it. So few regular folks did better under the Fourth Reich that the faithful (now down to 22%, breaking the eternal 27% mark) that as a bloc, well, as Boss Man said, it will end with three dudes in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Dothan, AL. Nah, MAGA got hit in their heart, also known as their wallet. You can't piss off everybody, even trying to subvert voting, because somebody is gonna squeal. (and I know squeals).
"...now no fertilizer? Sheeee-it."
Problem, meet solution. Load up on those bran muffins, farmers!
Say, you've given me a great idea. I'll make millions. All is forgiven. Now, to tell my porcine brethren, poop = cash. (Pig shit is extraordinarily high in nitrogen. Omnivore. People shit, same same. Nitrogen baby. Look up "night soil'. Or don't, just think about it. How DO those rice paddies get fertilized?)
I just wish we had a president equipped with a jet that can spread human feces over a wide area. Those farmers would be holding No Kings demos right out in the cornfield in the hopes of getting a dump.
I've been saying that since last February. But nobody listens!
Nobody listens to me when I patiently explain that if pigs had both wings and jet engines, you could take one from New York to LA.
I'm sorry, did you say something?
Motherfucker, do you have the temerity to question the Porcine Propellant Program. We've been working for years, but that is a hard lift. So fuck a whole bunch of you. Good day sir!
(yeah, I think he did it deliberately too. Stevie knows my buttons)
I'm taking the Red Eye (gravy) to LA.
Say what you will, Fartimus I will launch in my lifetime.
" World War III is starting and we're all gonna die !"
Duly noted, for that Trump's approval rating drops from 41% to 40%.
I was fully expecting Tubby to run his mouth and defy anyone to eject him from the proceedings, so it took me by surprise that he lost interest and left. He's probably putting a future speech in his back pocket, though, something like this, not unlike what we've heard before: "I've done more for the Blacks than any President ever. I even protected the rights of their babies to be U.S. citizens when we were getting rid of all those Chinese babies, Mexican babies, Honduran babies, Venezuelan babies, and all the rapists and thugs and drug dealers who made those babies. The Blacks love me for giving them such a generous carve out, yes they do, and they'll show me their love in 2028 in person when there won't be any more mail-in ballots. Hell, they love me so much there won't even need to be an election."
I agree, he went for material.
Maybe Alito's idiotic hypothetical about sleeper cells which he will describe as "the great speech by our greatest Supreme Court judge besides whatshisname the black guy, Norman Thomas."
I can imagine, Hamas terrorists come here, have a baby, the baby grows to adulthood and then... what? They commit some extra-special form of terrorism that only citizens are allowed to commit? Just FYI, Sam, the guys who flew the planes into the Trade Center were on tourist visas.
"some extra-special form of terrorism that only citizens are allowed to commit"
AKA "voting"
By MAAAAAAIIIL!!!
Nooooo! Not THAT! Stand back everyone, he's got an envelope and he's preparing to lick!
Spy baby grows up to bomb USA. Kinda runs counter to both the trend and the "American Dream," doesn't it?
They're puttin' our domestic terrorists outta work!
And, like, I watched "The Americans."
Jim Henson's Spy Babies!
Baby Geniuses is an actual movie, although I've heard it's not a very good movie.
a.k.a. Look Who's Voting
He went the way Family thugs show up at Mafia trials, to intimidate and remind everyone who's in charge. But listening to technical Constitutional arguments? BO-ring!
Just imagine having to sit quietly and listen to arguments made by your opponents. Intolerable.
Anyone who uses beaners this much deserves to be well compensated. Why do all the right-wingnuts who decry the nonexistent prohibition against slurs not cite and use "beaner"?
It's my favorite, and so versatile. You can really show depth of ignorance by referring to everyone from Latin America as beaners, including Brazilians and Uruguayans.
Brazil, just a different bean, right? Frijoles, coffee, what's the difference? They all talk funny.
[somberly] those are *holy* frijoles.
Somberly, huh? Okay then.
Speaking of beaners: In our area there was a very Northern European family with the odd last name "Beaner." I wonder if it was anglicized from "Bienør."
They need pronunciation lessons from Hyacinth Bucket
I'm thinking something like "Beignet" Ooh, it's FRENCH!
Very disappointed. I really hoped he would at least shout out “Objection!” at some point.
Oh. Yeah. 2 marks for obvious.
All those episodes of Perry Mason watched and now wasted
Judge Judy
Our next AG?
She and Judge Jeanine will battle for the job in a UFC fight on the White House lawn.
Of course, it will be fixed, and Tubby's friends will clean up on the betting apps.
Oh, good. This gives me an excuse to post this:
ANNOUNCER: Next on Judgey Judy...
LAWYER: Your Honor, my client--
JUDGEY JUDY: Just a minute. That's what you're wearing?
Now I have stuck in my head Joan Rivers yelling "Who are you wearing?"
No way Tubby can sit through an entire Perry Mason.
I guess the old fuckadoodledoo thought he could eyeball them into submission, as if he were a canny border collie and they were a flock of merinos. Didn’t happen, so he left. Or else he wet himself
"Didn’t happen, so he left. Or else he wet himself"
Which one was it? Depends
Jesus wept, the rest of us are at least trying to be clever! ;-)
He stank up the room and then left. A message, not so coded.
Roberts: "Could the Clerk of the Court open some windows, please?"
Odor in the court!
But... but... it's all about the DOMICILE, doncha know. Say the guys with Ivy-League law degrees paid to bullshit up an argument. Also "subject to the jurisdiction thereof", such an inscrutable phrase, what could it possibly mean? C'mon, everybody, let's all pretend not to understand words, it's fun and highly lucrative!
One legacy of the Trump years, told around the campfire flickering in the gutted TV in the courtyard of Harvard Law School, will be tales of once-respectable attorneys who took on defending Trump’s executive orders and, three years later were disbarred and working at Arby’s in Cairo, Illinois. “Then he said the 14th Amendment was only for the children of slaves! May you never hear the level of mocking laughter that followed that poor soul to the end of his days.”
"Every criminal defendant deserves a vigorous defense" turns into "Every crackpot idea deserves a vigorous offense, if the money is right."
Harvard Law School: There's Always a Way if the Client Can Pay
I wonder why the 14th amendment didn't sunset when these people died?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_last_survivors_of_American_slavery
In 1975 we coulda had a big retirement ceremony: "Well done! Please accept this gold watch as a token of our esteem!"
Here ya go, we tack on a new ending, the scissoring out of the Constitution of the 14th Amendment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Autobiography_of_Miss_Jane_Pittman_(film)
(If it were left up to them they'd scissor out the 13th Amendment too.)
Has nuclear weapons, but can't be trusted with scissors
Nuclear Scissors! A Cut Above!
They can only be beaten by Nuclear Rock!
A new game the whole family can play! WHEEE
I know we all make fun of Trump but I always remember that around 80 million people in this country voted for him because they're just like him.
You're depressing thought for the day.
The solicitor generals voice is a dead ringer for Roy Brocksmith. I know him from the old 'Total Recall' movie (the drop of sweat that tells Arnuld this is real life) as well as Star Trek:TNG (Being beaten by Data in the Stratego game knockoff) and other roles. Not a well known actor, but memorable to me for that unique voice, and damn this Solicitor General sounds just like him, playing hell with my visualization of the court. Bear in mind, done retroactively, Marco Rubio would not be an American citizen. This is racism, pure and simple. It's a fucking Amendment, Herr Drumph.
Not to mention some of the Queens Man's kidz...
It's all ridiculous nonsense, and yet here we are, all the way at the top, the highest court in the land. A thrilling testament to what large amounts of money paid to large amounts of lawyers can do.
Fortunately now Herr Drumph has pissed off so many lawyers (in addition to the rest of the free world) that he is down to this ShitFerBrains. If only Der Furher realized all his shit will be undone ASAP, assuming he doesn't blow up the world first.
I know I'd go to jail, but I've love to call Clarence Thomas a "house nigger" to his face, and see what happens. "You up in the big house now, so screw dem farm niggers". Not worth going to jail, I'm truly curious if that has any resonance at all, or that he's just a sociopath like Drumph.
ETA: I got kicked out of Eschathon by Atrios for saying he needed a "low tech lynching" back in Anita Hill hearing days. I stand by my assessment (and fuck a bunch of Atrios with rusty chainsaws)
You really should can the racist crap. I get where you’re coming from but it’s offensive.
"I'm going with 'jerk store'!"
Christ. Dunno why we hate the man. Dad's right, must just be some weird obsession we have. 😮💨
I've got a gout attack in my right wrist and that's why I'm not commenting more. Fuck this. I feel like the guy from "Whisperer In The Darkness", the one *SPOILER FOR HUNDRED YEAR OLD STORY* the mi-go hollow out and use as a puppet. Got so many things to do but I can't fucking DO any of them. Even though I'm taking off from work at Dismalco™ I am NOT having fun.
I must admit yesterday I got those 1969 feelings, which frankly I never thought would happen in my life again. Nothing can match the majesty of a Saturn V takeoff, seeing a skyscraper lift up so very slowly, but damn, not as majestic, but boy howdy damn I got that feeling again, spending days sleeping on the floor in front of the TV during Apollo 11. That's how it is done, you giant bottle rocker launcher Elon Musk. Although I admit, the loss of signal so early on caught me by surprise (and Houston too). "Houston transmitting blind, so and so..." Transmitting blind means you have no earthly (spaceley?) idea if your intended recipient can hear you. The fix? Houston rebooted all systems. May Bill Gates roast in the bowels of Hell, reboot is bad, not something that just happens. Real machines (big iron and small) don't reboot, and fuck Gates for normalizing that shit.
Oooh, that shot of the Saturn 5 lifting off, the letters "USA" crawl slowly past the camera. I don't do that patriotism shit, but damn, that one does get me.
Patriotism, Schmatiorism. , I make them go up / I don't care where they come down / That's not my department / Says Werhner Von Braun --Tom Lehrer.
Not an American thing, a technology thing, and that partnership still continues even with Russia and China (China with the THIRD OF A MILE wide radio telescope), no, the scientific community it its own country, one of which I very proudly a member (How old were you when you got your first letter from NASA? I was ten, and they very kindly explained to me how slow-scan television works in response to my question of the visuals. Eternal allegiance bought)
I respect the sentiment so many have about transcending our differences to marvel at the cosmos etc, and I get the argument that space exploration leads to a lot of practical discoveries, but all I see in those liftoffs is giant piles of money burning to put whitey back on the moon. And the only explanation I’ve heard for why they are doing it is to beat the Chinese in a race the Chinese aren’t participating in.