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[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 266 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Man attempting to raise 2 daughters escapes to outer space

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 56 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He fucked off further than anyone has ever fucked off before.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

He just went out for a pack of smokes, he’ll be back any minute now…

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Can he take my father? Was there a vote or lottery to send your bigoted parents to the moon.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What a fool, there are no cigarettes on the moon!

[–] neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't tell that to Elon. We still have a chance to send him away if he thinks he could somehow escape all the children he's forcing women to have.

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

"Hey Elmo, the moon is made of drugs!"

[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 months ago

outer space contains the best quality milk

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 74 points 4 months ago

I also choose this guy's moon crater.

[–] showmeyourkizinti@startrek.website 53 points 4 months ago
[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I get it and I'm all for this mission.

But if I was a single dad I would never risk my life by going to the moon on a test flight.

[–] LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 8 points 4 months ago

I get your point

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You know my first thought was that if I was a widower with two kids I definitely wouldn't work in a job that dangerous but what are the chances that being an astronaut is actually safer than driving an hour long commute?

[–] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

You could die working in McDonald's, at least this way he can support two kids on a single income.

[–] dehyzer@piefed.social 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what are the chances that being an astronaut is actually safer than driving an hour long commute?

A trip to space is actually about 100,000 times more likely to lead to a fatality than a 20 mile car trip.

People really underestimate how dangerous space travel is.

(The math is in another comment below if you're curious.)

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I feel like the sample size is too low though. I wouldn't argue that it's more safe... But a lot of the deaths in space travel were in the early days when we were still figuring shit out and had less sophisticated technology for things like automatic abort systems etc.

[–] dehyzer@piefed.social 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

For a more recent data point, how about NASA's safety requirements for SpaceX manned flights, circa 2020?

Josh Finch, a NASA spokesperson, told Spaceflight Now that the agency’s calculated “Loss Of Crew” probability for SpaceX’s Demo-2 test flight is 1-in-276, exceeding the commercial crew program’s requirement threshold of 1-in-270.

Would you get in a car if you had a 1 in 270 chance of dying during each trip? Those aren't great odds for surviving a year's worth of daily commutes.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/05/22/nasa-review-clears-spacex-crew-capsule-for-first-astronaut-mission/

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[–] usrtrv@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

I don't know. If my parent was an Astronaut and they decided to stop being an Astronaut for me. I would hate that, feels like a burden.

[–] berber@feddit.org 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

sorry i am too uneducated:

can someone explain what the meme is here?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 51 points 4 months ago

Text + Picture = Meme

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 months ago

I think the meme-ness here is shaky, but I for one will allow it.

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[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

Holy shit the comments ITT

[–] mtpender@piefed.social 11 points 4 months ago

Absolute Gigachad!

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