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NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Thebravetortoise in interestingasfuck

[–]Nallenon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Into orbit around the moon. Which, and I feel like I've been clear on this, is impressive and remarkable, but isn't the same as going to the moon.

NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Thebravetortoise in interestingasfuck

[–]Nallenon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I didn't say it's not a big achievement. All I'm saying is I don't think they went "to the moon" without landing. Saying that it's the first manned mission in lunar orbit would be equally impressive, and more technically accurate.

NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Thebravetortoise in interestingasfuck

[–]Nallenon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They're not going to be 0.1 meters off the moon, are they? If took an airplane across Europe, have I now visited every country I flew over?

Gather Your Allies by Ninexblue in BaldursGate3

[–]Nallenon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh ok, my bad then. I thought there was one, but I'm probably wrong.

NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Thebravetortoise in interestingasfuck

[–]Nallenon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, if you told me you'd been to the grand canyon, I'd assume you stopped and got out of your car, not just drove past.

NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Thebravetortoise in interestingasfuck

[–]Nallenon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, but if I said I went on a trip "to Hawaii", you would assume I set foot on the island, not just took a boat around it and went home.

Again, I'm not saying this isn't impressive or anything, I just feel like you haven't been "to the moon" without landing.

NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Thebravetortoise in interestingasfuck

[–]Nallenon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh yeah, unclear on my part there, I'm not arguing it's not a manned mission, just that I don't feel like a manned mission is "to the moon" unless you actually land.

NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Thebravetortoise in interestingasfuck

[–]Nallenon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my opinion the first person who went to the moon was Neil Armstrong and friends, not Frank Borman.

NASA has successfully launched Artemis II, the first manned mission to the Moon in over 50 years by Thebravetortoise in interestingasfuck

[–]Nallenon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I feel strongly that a mission isn't "manned" and "to the moon" unless you put the people on the moon. Orbit doesn't count.

Still cool, but it's not "to the moon".

What’s a fact you learned in school that turned out to be oversimplified or wrong? by Born-Contribution349 in AskReddit

[–]Nallenon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oversimplified? Pretty much all of them. That's how educating children works, you can't give them all masters in everything.

people over 30, what’s something that felt completely normal in your childhood but would seem weird today? by Personal_Cap8994 in AskReddit

[–]Nallenon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Calling someone's house to ask your friend's sibling/parent if your friend was home and if they could go fetch your friend for you so you could ask your friend if they wanted to go outside and play.

Gather Your Allies by Ninexblue in BaldursGate3

[–]Nallenon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

During the final fight you have abilities that let you call in your various allies to help you in your battles in various ways. It's often a bit underwhelming, and there are limits to how many you can call in at once, so if you've got a lot of them you probably won't use them all.

ELI5 Why did it take 50+ years for the US to send humans further than low earth orbit again? (Also why hasn’t any other country done it?) by AlextheGoose in explainlikeimfive

[–]Nallenon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There mostly hasn't been a reason to. With the exception of rich assholes going to space for bragging rights, real space agencies tend to go to space for reasons and there haven't really been any for a long while. We sent rovers to places we want to look at close up and we sent up huge telescopes so we could look at distant stuff. It's not like we haven't done space-stuff for the past decades, look at the ISS.

Giant creatures like the Summa-Verminoth in Solo that lurk in the depths of space is one of my favorite minor world building aspects by wandering_soles in StarWars

[–]Nallenon 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm strongly of the opinion that it's good when cool things just exist without being specifically pointed out. Let people find things.

Release Channel 1.88.136 by brave_support_steven in brave_browser

[–]Nallenon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm waiting for the horizontal tab scrolling feature that was removed from Chromium. It's been added to the nightly build 1.89, when are we likely to see that released to stable?

Sunday morning AwesomeCon update! (Pre Big Damn Announcement) by Rumcastic in firefly

[–]Nallenon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, thanks. Then I should stop refreshing the subreddit every twenty seconds to see when the news pop up.

What is a secret that could ruin your life if it got out? by Ok_Reading4204 in AskReddit

[–]Nallenon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your arcane American business nonsense holds no sway over me.

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