Lost in Space
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2024
- Confusing the FAR SIDE of the moon with the DARK SIDE of the moon is the most elementary mistake a Junior Space Cadet can make: primarily because there is NO SUCH THING as ‘the Dark Side of the Moon.’ However, NASA administrator Bill Nelson recently made this fundamental mistake, and a few moments later, elaborated on why NASA has no plans to explore the Dark Side of the Moon, the primary reason being that it’s dark all the time. A former Astronaut, Bill Nelson is 81 years old: just the sort of far-seeing, bleeding-edge dynamo America needs to head its space program.
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Too many people going to the moon might cause it to tip over -- some Congressman 🙄
Hank Johnson. Democrat. And Sheila Jackson Lee (Democrat) said the moon was made mostly of vapor and you could only land on the sun at certain times. She also failed to put on her eclipse glasses correctly.
Nelson planned to go to explore the sun by going at night to prevent burning up.
So apparently he is taking advise from Congress critter Sandy Cortez? Why am I not surprised?
That's brilliant. No one had thought of that before? Nobel prize time!
Well, at least he's _not_ Neil deGrasse Tyson...
Too true... It could always be worse. Lol
Ooh, if we had both of them in a room, would their collective stupid be dense enough to create a singularity?
Nelson was a long-time Senator from Florida. His wisdom was never either in doubt or in evidence.
Bill Nelson and Sheila Scott Lee went to the same school.
And congressmen Johnson
Never ask a politician about science. 🤔
Or Mr. Science/Fauchi
Asking politicians about science is about as useful as asking a scientist about politics. It's just that the scientist is usually easier to tolerate because they don't (usually) directly control taxes and laws.
Bill Nelson, "I'm not a DEI hire, but I sure can act like one at a hearing."
You can't believe how glad most of us Floridians were to get rid of that fool .
Didn't even have the sense to go to work for an arms producer instead.
These days a degree in political science, and especially social science, is a detriment to science itself.
OMG, and here I thought Rep. Hank Johnson Jr. was clueless.
My main concern is, if we build moon bases, the weight of them may tip the moon over... much like what could happen to Guam. 😉
Anyone who's seen Iron Sky knows there's a German base on the far side of the Moon.
Yep with that hot German chick! We gotta get there!!
Lol
And the Russians are hiding on Mars...
Zanks for the remeinder, I need to get zis movie.
Zat vas von zilly movie that I almost forgot about watching.
The "dark side" of the moon was awfully not-dark during the recent eclipse.
Usually really bright during every new moon, eclipse or not.
Thank you Bill for expressing out loud what I’ve been saying about Nelson ever since he was senator . Wickedly clueless
What? Are you saying the the moon is not made of cheese? 😱
American cheese !!!
Government cheese.
Why do you think we haven't landed there for the last few decades? Once we made sure it wasn't made of cheese, it just didn't feel nearly as important.
I think Yako Warner said it best when he said: Dumber than advertised.
I'm suspecting he learned everything he knows about the moon from Sheila Jackson Lee.
Sheila Jackson Lee and Bill Nelson must have gone to the same school.
Artemis 1 went past the Moon last year and took photos and live video of the LIGHTED Far Side and broadcasted it to the world.
They called it the dark side because there was no radio
Can't believe how far down through the comments I had to scroll to find yours!
Exactly; it's a bit of a misnomer that was shortened from the Radio-dark side of the Moon.
Hysterical coverage. Thank you gentlemen.
Remember when JFK said "We choose not to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is dark."
He was a congressman who flew on the shuttle early on as a perk flight. He's since been described as someone who can go before Congress and say, "Aww shucks, my old colleagues. I don't know. We'll get back to you on that when we aren't on camera and under oath."
IIRC, he's also notorious for not appointing someone to be responsible for the budget of SLS, because then someone would exist who could be called before congress to explain the budget for SLS.
Our country is led by buffoons.
NASA will land on the sun. Quite easy, they will do it at night.
Scott keeps becoming more of a parody of himself.
I am jealous of his beard and mustache!
The far side would be a good place for an observatory. A large radio telescope in a crater would give way better info than what we have now.
Why aren't we launching deep space probes from the moon where you wouldn't need a ballistic rocket to launch it?
In the 1990s the magazine Popular Science had an article that mentioned landing on the “dark side” of the moon, and I wrote a letter to the editor to correct them, and they printed my letter in the following months issue.
Guess Nelson is too old to remember Mother Goose. There was a bovine orbiter as well.
"Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon."
You guys had entiriely too much fun with this one!
One of the funniest takes for Scott for sure! Love it! Ha!
I used to be a flat mooner. But then I added squats to my workout routine
I'm sure there are a few Chinese space engineers who got a big laugh out of this.
Thumbs up for that beautiful Lunar beard.
We're still standing on the porch, Bill. Thank you gentlemen for the Sunday entertainment!
NASA hasn't been the NASA I grew up with since the Apollo program.
Even a stopped clock is right 14.7 days a month.
The far side of the moon must contain the light source that shines through the moon and the curtain/shutter that blocks some of the light from getting to the earth.
Instead of _Bill_ Nelson, we'd have been better off appointing _Mike_ Nelson, the MST3K host/test subject.
I must be at a BBQ with a roast like that.
To think he went into space once as a payload specialist. His degree is in law. Other than that, he's been in politics most of his life.
What a great channel. Thanks to all of you.
The real danger of landing on the moon that none of the "experts" talk about is what if there is something pointy on the lander that pokes a hole in it and lets all the gas out? Where would you all be THEN, smartypants?
Thanks for reminding me of Fire Marshall Bill. Now I remember Homey The Clown, and the Home Boys Shopping Network too.
Finally Scott Ott has some good ideas about landing on the moon.
People are probably wondering why I'm grinning and laughing so much as I deliver the mail!
The dark side is not dark all the time. If you can see the moon in the day, the backside is in the sun. NASA has not been interested in doing it right just keeping the jobs going.
A Democrat member of Congress sincerely thought Guam would capsize, and asked an admiral that question in committee.
I study heavenly bodies with a telescope, but know nothing about astronomy. I still remember a cartoon in the old MAD magazine, about Leonardo De Vinci just invented the telescope, and he was aiming it at a distance bedroom with his tongue hanging out, dripping. The next frame showed a girl changing and angrily pulling the drapes close.
I dunno...I have it on pre-tty good intellectual authority that planet Moon is made of gas, which causes us to question our capacity to live there.
For that matter, I did live on both 'The Far Side' and 'The Dark Side of the Moon' for quite a while in the 80s, so it is possible.
Florida elevated Nelson to the tank rank of Senator. Good job, folks.
Letter B would be the moon spends as much time in our sky during the day as it does during the night over the 29 day cycle. Many people find that astonishing.
There are so many maps of the moon. As a kid in 1970 I had a placemat with both sides of the moon printed on it.
A flat moon, an always dark side of the moon, a giant ball of gas, it's all hard to believe we let these people go to Wash DC and speak for us.
Cakes and circuses have truly ruined us
Will the moon tip over if we land at the bottom of the crescent?
You could consider the moon's south pole as the dark side, as Scott said some of the craters are perpetually in the dark and the poles barely get any sun to begin with.
When a member of the "science and space committee" tells a high-school class that the moon is "a planet made mostly of gas", it seems whatever was supposed to keep people from laughing at "the experts" isn't working very well; so I suppose this guy is just doin' what comes naturally. PS: Given how China has been operating in international water inches off the coasts of other nations; I cannot be the only one who thinks "we" had better at least get a decent idea of what they're doing up there.
There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
do they even still have scientists in nasa anymore?
It depends on their pronouns...
Bill Nelson's Hank Johnson moment(s).
Barbara McClusky, the Senator in charge of NASA appropriations, told a group of NASA engineers about 10 or 15 years ago that, "America needs to get to the moon before China does."
reminds me of awhile ago when nasa landed a lander on the moon that dropped down on a trapeze thingy on touchdown that then rocketed off to the side. my comment; "only nasa would consider a landing successful where you throw away 90% of your spacecraft."
...the problem is that folks who live on a planet tend to project their planetary perceptions onto other objects in the solar system, and they haven't figured out that the phases of the moon are proof that the far side of the moon is NOT consistently dark.
So what do you really think Bill? 😂
Brandenstein was a better NASA Administrator for a better president.
Yea, but it was Bridenstine. Brandenstine would probably have been better, too.
You silly men . space is a vacuum , it sucks the water off the bottom of the moon
But the moon is made of gasses, isn't it?
i would love to ask him the celestial mechanics that would allow the far side of the moon (ie faces away from the earth) to continually be the darks side of the moon. should really be interesting.
Of course there is no dark side of the moon. As a matter of fact its all dark.
Ha I love it , Bill I know you are but what am I. Keep going, just one more ,like what a moronic comment. You guys are my favorites
Why Solar Walk app gives me a 360 degree model of the Moon.
When one of you dies, the other 2 will meet at the funeral. Since you're already destined to all 3 get together one day, why not do at least one where you're ALL alive?
Save us from ourselves!? I do not associate with the stupidity of elected "officials"
Didn't he say Starship was a waste of effort?
The consequences of public education 😂
This episode had me crying with laughter. I am now convinced that this administrator IS not Joe Briben's older brother, he IS Joe Briben in disguise. That explains the wokeness.
Hope he doesn't try to make sushi!
Remember the survey a while back (I can't find it) where a surprising number of respondents (I'm remembering >20%) said the moon can't be seen during the day? Welcome to the Dem party.
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after the CVD lie, science is now dead. Wanna see how "they science " now?
look at a picture of Giordano Bruno
Tell us how you really feel, Bill... and yes, Artemus will not succeed as currently planned. The current director and many others need to go. A new infusion of people with fresh ideas that aren't afraid of discussion to ensure success is definitely needed. As far as Musk is concerned, he may be passed by by the Bezos mission. The Moon is a second, third, or fourth thought for him. It's Tesla, Starlink and Mars and then maybe the Moon if he gets around to it. Having a contract didn't mean much to him for Dragon. He got around to it when he finished up his Solar City deal. It'll be interesting to see how Artemus pans out, and if it keeps its current form.
"He got around to it when he finished up his Solar City deal."
And beat Boeing by 13 years and counting. We're waiting for Bezos' orbital rocket (reusable or no). And ULA is grounded waiting for the engine Bezos promised. But Nelson's determined to prop up Bezos so his contraption may land... at Musk's Moon base. I gotta hand it to you, you sure can pick 'em. Can I see your playoff bracket?
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Nelson was an astronaut, by the way.
We have a trans person as Surgeon General. That should tell you all you need to know about this administration. "Follow the Science" lol
Nelson looks like a fundamentalist pastor with a mega church somewhere out there…
No such thing as the dark side of the moon, matter of fact, it is all dark. Don't ask me what I am high on. I assure you, it is not Cessna or Piper.
Or are we talking about the technology to get to the moon in general?
What's lost? The other rockets that put the Willis jeep on tha moon?
Nelson's ENTIRE political career--in Florida or otherwise--has always rested on his past as an astronaut. It's so sad how little he's learned from it. 😂
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I don't belong on this world.
Young Earth Creationist are just as naive.
No, they're wrong, but their not in the senator's league of ignorant. YEC is wrong about the remote past. Nelson doesn't understand what he sees and is supposed to administer.
Why do Democrat Presidents keep picking administrators who flew on the last flight before the Challenger disaster?
Because they're voted for by folks who flew IN the Challenger disaster.
The spirit of Jack Horkheimer Lives!
While this doesn't fit the narrative, Bill Nelson is a former NASA astronaut and has actual spaceflight experience not gained like Jake Garn by being a Senator in the first place. He became a US Senator afterward and also chaired the US Senate space committee for many years when Obama was President. The choice of Bill Nelson as NASA administrator is both politically reasonable and perhaps the most qualified person that Democrats could have put forward to that position and honestly is doing as good of a job as can be done under the Biden administration. If you have criticisms of NASA, point it at the White House where those concerns belong and not at Bill Nelson.
Is Bill Nelson a part of the gerontocracy ruling America right now? I would agree with that assessment and perhaps somebody a bit younger should be chosen, but then again he represents Joe Biden almost perfectly in that position too.
You can also complain about old space vs. new space and how Bill Nelson really does represent perhaps even the last of the old space mentality that will likely be governing NASA. Long time companies such as Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, and if I dare say it...Blue Origin who is acting much more like an old space company than anybody genuinely innovative and creative. SLS represents the pinnacle of that mentality although decisions to make the SLS fly go all of the way back to the Bill Clinton administration and can't be dumped completely on Joe Biden other than wondering why taxpayers are continuing to dump money down that fiscal black hole? Then again getting anything new through Congress is something the Biden administration is not going to waste any effort on in terms of new space programs that aren't already underway.
He took NASA training before the shuttle mission. He was no astronaut.
18-20 landed there. Allegedly. Mona Lisa. Joint Russian program. Etc.
He's referring to the lack of radio communication with the other side of the moon as there's no direct line of sight. You guys made yourselves sound really dumb on this one. Disappointing. Was also sadly surprised at how far down in the comments I had to scroll before I found markkerlin2585''s comment illuminating this topic. Sheesh!
Show me a pre-gaffe quote from him that establishes this. Nobody uses that terminology, it's being invented to sublimate his rambling into sense.
Nelson looks suspiciously like Fred Willard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nelson