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Neobullseye1 3 days ago +56

Uh... What the heck is this nonsense, a news article or a poorly written sci-fi action movie review? Why is it written in past tense when it's not over yet? What is with all the overly hyped language choice? Not to mention all the pointless fluff that really is not relevant whatsoever to the core of the article.

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messem10 2 days ago +16

Odds are they put the article out early. Most news have articles prewritten for potential events where there are only a small amount of outcomes. (Celebrity obituaries is one case that comes to mind as death comes to us all.) In this instance, they either make it or they don’t but either outcome *will* happen.

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jackleggjr 2 days ago +11

Gerald Ford dead today, eaten by wolves

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someguy7710 2 days ago +3

I get this reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tX6jdoruH8 for those that don't

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gnanny02 2 days ago +3

And no time of splashdown for those of us still operating before the fact.

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Mercutio999 3 days ago +54

Wow, AI screwed the pooch there. It’s written in the past tense. Anthropics Time Machine is now live

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pudding7 2 days ago +4

Yeah I was very confused by that.

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AnglerJared 3 days ago +88

Safe return, and thanks for making this last couple of weeks a bit brighter, news-wise.

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JRockPSU 2 days ago +8

The launch made me cry… my therapist suggested that despite obviously being aware of all the negative news surrounding us all day all the time, we may not actually realize just how much stress from it were holding inside ourselves, and when this truly wonderful, positive, hopeful massive event happens, it’s like a sudden release, like an exhale. It was very much needed.

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IrishRage42 2 days ago +8

I cried too. Like that is what humanity should be, not all the bullshit we're bombarded with daily.

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Faulty_Plan 2 days ago +3

Godsplash, my space peeps

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HighwayFragrant4772 3 days ago +14

See when the Artemis II splashdown is set to be in your timezone with a countdown aswell over here: https://www.calc-verse.com/en/artemis-2-splashdown

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joegetto 3 days ago +8

Why is this article written like it already happened?

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MOONGOONER 2 days ago +3

I clicked hoping to find out when. Nope.

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GrunwaldTheFox 2 days ago +5

8:05 pm eastern time tonight

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rpickens6661 2 days ago

Unless weather.

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Vevaseti 2 days ago +1

There's no delaying the landing of a mission like this, they're coming in one way or another. Apparently they can still do enough adjustments to to pick the landing site by a massive range up to 48 hours out (to give the ships enough time to reach it), but at this point they're locked in.

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PigFarmer1 2 days ago -1

Not trying to be rude but it's just laughable that it's coming down in the Pacific so we get the landing time for EDT. If it was coming down here in the Rocky Mountains no one would be able to even determine the time for our nonexistent MDT... lol

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BlueCyann 2 days ago +2

... ... The announcement literally listed pacific time first. You're basing your entire paragraph's worth of outrage on the fact that a random internet person gave the time zone that means the most to them.

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buzzbros2002 2 days ago +1

I did the same. Like, it's one of the five big W's, When?? Thankfully that was said in the comments here, but I'd have expected that in the article itself, especially when the headline talks about it almost being here.

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Longshot02496 3 days ago +6

"NASA's lunar comeback" Didn't they get their already measly budget cut by like 80% just a few days ago for daring to steal the limelight away from King Lord Dorito?

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NeilZod 2 days ago +2

Trump proposes a significant budget reduction, but that budget isn’t set yet

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Longshot02496 2 days ago +6

Nobody in the government has spine enough to say no to the clown in chief. Don't hold your breath.

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Inevitable_Prune3343 3 days ago -4

Your making up a lot of things in this comment

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Fallouttgrrl 2 days ago +1

So this is definitely when we find out the moon is haunted, right?

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forresto 1 day ago +1

I wonder how many times they were brought to tears on this mission? I get teary just imagining what they experienced.

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jkggwp 2 days ago +1

I really wanted them to take a photo of the site of the previous moon landing. You’d think this would be possible with today’s camera sensors

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iamdan1 2 days ago +6

All of the moon landings were on the side of the Moon facing Earth, and this mission went around the back side of the Moon. So they didn't see any of the previous moon landing sites.

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BlueCyann 2 days ago +1

Honestly I'm not sure that it would have been possible even if they did go around the moon the other way. The closest they got was 4K miles. That might be too far. Even the photos we have from pretty low orbit are not exactly sharp, and that's with dedicated science focused equipment, not just handheld cameras. I can't imagine you'd get more than a pixel or two with a Nikon from 4K miles, and probably not even that. Anyway, look up the Chandrayaan photos or the Lunar Reconnaissance orbiter ones (I think that's the name?) if you want to scratch that itch.

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7657786425658907653 3 days ago -21

was i the only person who thought they were actually GOING to the moon? when I say i'm going home i don't just do a lap of my road.

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Stiklikegiant 3 days ago +11

Just sight seeing this time. But the crew is doing very important work to facilitate upcoming lunar landing missions.

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Adequate_Lizard 2 days ago +6

No. Lots of other people also have no media comprehension.

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Roentgen_Ray1895 2 days ago +6

Artemis 2 was Apollo 10, we got everything to the moon and made sure all these systems we designed can get people there and back safely, the next big step with Artemis 3 will be all the brand new terrifying possibilities of malfunction that the lander will bring to the table And I mean it wasn’t the flashy walk on the moon, but no human had journeyed this far from Earth in over half a century. If we’re getting real technical with it, it’s the furthest humans have ever reached into the cosmos.

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BlueCyann 2 days ago +1

There's no direct comparison. Artemis 2 was less than either Apollo 8 or 10, but it was way more than Apollos 7 or 9. The program is skipping a lot of steps, with the next trip out there intended to be a full landing.

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susulaima 2 days ago -4

It only went 6000 km further from 400,000 km (around 1.5% more than Apollo 13). Not really that significant to even point out. Though what's significant is this time they'll make it back in one piece without any complications, hopefully, and it's not a rescue mission.

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renome 3 days ago +7

Artemis 4 will be the actual moon landing. But yeah, you're not the only one.

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Effective_Tour_4822 3 days ago +7

There are plenty of dumbshits out there, don't feel alone

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