I would argue that what has been accomplished with the Artemis missions so far has been a parallel evolution to Apollo, and not any kind of competition.

Of course technology has advanced since the late 1960s and 1970s. But the challenges of traveling safely to the moon and back again as humans are still just as treacherous. Doing something that has never been done before in the history of humanity is incredibly impressive. Doing it repeatedly, decades apart, with vastly different people and technology proves that we can continue to accomplish this task and perhaps beyond. That is equally impressive in my book.

The innovations created by the needs of space travel have regularly and constantly improved our everyday lives. There are absolutely more important things to focus on at home, but for some reason we tend to focus on the destructive actions, rather than the constructive alternatives. Space travel by public agencies like NASA have historically been a unifying force that have consistently driven positive technologies to the human species, and not just the privileged few.

The kinds of emotions and experiences that can only be imagined by the overwhelming majority of every human that has ever existed until very recently. Sights and accomplishments, discoveries and relics our shared ancestors could have only ever dreamed of.

A powerful reminder that humanity is still capable of achieving previously impossible feats when we seek to understand, instead of destroy. When we strive to push the boundaries of our collective capabilities, rather than focusing on diminishing the capabilities of others. When we work together, and don’t arbitrarily divide ourselves apart. When we, unfortunately scarcely, recognize that we are all just a fraction of a mote of dust on that otherwise insignificant pale blue dot in the distance.

I’ll take you at your word that my lack of association is a good thing, and I appreciate your patience and continuous efforts to help me understand.

I see, thank you again for the additional details! I feel like I finally understand the joke thanks to you.

I think the reference to the track in the title text threw me off the most, and I didn’t even realize that it was supposed to be a joke until reading the top comment.

Thank you for also clarifying that you weren’t speaking negatively about me if I had been intentionally obtuse. I hope the mild distastefulness of the post isn’t due to bigotry.

Thank you for the clarification. I suspected as much, as you can see from my later comment, but I was legitimately confused.

I’m still not sure if I understand the humor (something about the implied double meaning of “hot wheels” I’m guessing), but it’s not at all uncommon for a joke to go over my head. I’m also not sure what is in any way distasteful about the post, and I hope I haven’t contributed to any distastefulness.

I’m on the spectrum so I’m used to misunderstanding things that are obvious to other people. I apologize if I came across as being intentionally obtuse to you, OP, or anyone else.

I don’t think those plastic tracks could support the weight of a human adult even if they were large enough for the wheelchairs. Especially not at the force they’d have to endure to reach sufficient looping speed and the looping itself. That’s to say nothing about the risk to the person in the wheelchair.

Is that the joke? The absurdity of the scenario?

I’m also not entirely clear how wheelchairs = hot wheels implicitly. Are you commenting on the appearance of the women in the wheelchairs, is it something to do with the wheelchairs themselves, or is it just the association that they both have wheels? Maybe something else entirely?

Apologies for my struggling to fully understand. I appreciate your clarifications.

I don’t understand, are they supposed to be looking at the reader seductively because the reader has hot wheels? Is that why you need a bigger track? So that everyone can play with the hot wheels together?

Something is clearly going over my head.

Archive link.

Where do the active code contributors to FOSS software exist on this scale?

Might as well drink up on the cactus juice while you still can. It is the quenchiest after all.

“Maybe it’s friendly”

Master(bater) of none?

They don’t mess around with their requirements either and strictly enforce them. If you don’t follow their rules and your domain is deleted, there is no refund or recourse.

That’s usually determined at the registrar level, not the registry level, though of course there are always exceptions.

Some ccTLDs have strict requirements (looking at you .de), but most are fairly standard TLDs. The last time I checked, .tv (for Tuvalu) was responsible for something like 40% of the country’s GDP, so it’s not surprising that most ccTLDs are welcoming to outsiders.

Edit: I was curious so I double checked, and apparently as of 2019 .tv was closer to 9% of Tuvalu’s Government spending according to Wikipedia. In my defense, the last time I researched the matter was several years prior to 2019, and additionally I have no doubt that I’m misremembering and/or unintentionally exaggerating that figure.

Regarding .de domains, I’ve seen multiple examples of a registered domain being completely deleted with absolutely no refund or recourse because the Registrant/Admin contact(s) didn’t respond to a physical letter sent by DENIC via post in Germany.

Thanks for the clarification. Given the context of how this comment thread has developed, I didn’t know what to expect.

I’m not sure how to interpret this since I don’t wear glasses. I can’t tell if your response was intended as a compliment, insult, joke, or something else entirely.

Full disclosure, I’m on the spectrum so there is likely something that is going over my head. I can only hope that your comment was given with positive intentions and was intended to evoke positive feelings in the reader.

My understanding is that the Dr. was referring to her glasses prescription, but the numbers he provided were misinterpreted as some sort of rating on her appearance (or perhaps basketball performance).

He didn’t intend to cause that confusion, which is why he acknowledged that his choice of wording was not ideal. I hope that clears things up.

Unfortunately a product of a writers strike at the time. Other shows also got hit, Bones was one that comes to mind.

Oof I forgot about that. Well written entertainment (not at all) surprisingly depends on talented and sufficiently compensated writers.

Theres also the fact that it didn’t really seem well thought out on what to do with prisonbreak after they got out. How do you keep that same sort of pre-planning and genius level work that micheal put in to it all. but it was an eventful show.

I wish they would have found some way to tie up the whole conspiracy and end the show with the conclusion of the first season. We didn’t need to see what happened afterwards, leave that to our imaginations. Unfortunately what followed was a clumsy attempt to reconcile the more fantastical elements with reality. We could have had another brilliant prison story like Shawshank, but instead we got a conspiracy theory soap opera.

I fear that late 00s was the last time we got a big lineup of all those types of big shows. Streaming is all well and good, but its taken away the week-by-week talking about shows that used to occur. You watch the episode, the next day everyone was talking about it, coming up with theories and ideas, now its not a given that people all watch it at the same time, and with binge watching it has, for better or worse, just killed that sort of community that existed around tv shows.

I don’t think that kind of entertainment is entirely gone today, but it’s certainly the exception rather than the rule. Outside of a few niches, I agree that you don’t really see the same level of the week by week theory crafting and speculation that used to be so fun at the time. I hope someday that experience will be the norm again.

Absolutely agree with The Owl House, such an amazing show. On the other hand, it’s definitely not for everyone, especially the character Hooty.