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2024-12-18 Science & Technology

NASA astronauts stranded in space get more bad news as rescue mission is delayed

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-18 06:45|| 2024-12-18 06:45|| Front Page Top

#2 "Butch has been coughing up hairballs from Suni's unconstrained hair: 'I just wish she'd get a hair tie or something'"

Posted by Frank G 2024-12-18 07:41|| 2024-12-18 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Once this is sorted out and everyone is safely back on the ground, do Butch and Suni go to the bottom of the deployment list ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-12-18 07:47|| 2024-12-18 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Do they get points for extra ~~air~~ ~~flight~~ orbit time?

Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-18 09:37|| 2024-12-18 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Any bets they come home sooner once Trump and Musk get in office?

Posted by DarthVader 2024-12-18 12:39|| 2024-12-18 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 I find the concept that someone who is in the job "astronaut" is upset that they have to stay in space to be amusing. It's the job they chose!

Posted by ed in texas 2024-12-18 13:25|| 2024-12-18 13:25|| Front Page Top

#7 One commenter wrote: 'Stuck in space for 60 days with no known solution is inhumane and torture.

'Why did y'all teams send those astronauts in the first place? Where is the Change.Org petition to bring back the astronauts?'

Another worried commenter wrote: 'Hope they come back alive and tell us about it. Nightmarish. Only happens in movies.'

Tell me about the pussification of modern culture in three comments.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-12-18 13:35|| 2024-12-18 13:35|| Front Page Top

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