Artemis Too?

Gold cherry

By Ewan

Sat, 04 Apr 2026
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14 comments
 

I saw their projected track,

the one where they'll lasso the moon:

a figure 8 to the dark side 

- and back?

 

What if they don't make it?

What if it's not 8, but infinity -

and beyond?

Certificate U
Poem
Not Quite Good Enough
Science fiction

Comments

Submitted by celticman on

infinity and beyond, like the cartoon cowboy, but no joke. We got bored with moon landings. Now they're back. 

 

Submitted by GlosKat on

To infinity and beyond.  As a mathematician that's always made me laugh. 

Another 1.5 trillion dlollars to carry on with his war of choice, 152 million dollars to reopen Alcatraz, and 93 billion dollars to send a few guys in a bean can round a lump of barren rock.  Trump's spending plans certainly seem to go to infinity and beyond.  

 

 

Submitted by Ewan on

  ... and so did the writers of Toy Story: the catchphrase is a joke: "you can't go beyond infinity" as one of the character's creators once said.

I agree, Trump's spending plans are as dangerous as his belief that politics and diplomacy are merely transactional. He is aligning himself with the Bible Belt bigots intent on turning the USA into some sort of real-world Gilead. I have yet to hear him mention the word Theocracy in connection with his woefully ill-considered war with Iran, - I imagine he doesn't know it - but if he were to use it, I am sure he would utterly fail to see the irony in doing so.

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Submitted by Turlough on

What are they expecting to find on the Moon? Oil or weapons of mass destruction?

Turlough

Submitted by GlosKat on

Maybe nuclear weapons.  Which their own intelligence chief told them didn't exist in the first place, but they 'obliterated' in the second place, and then started a war over in the third place.  Them pesky nuclear weapons are mighty persistent.

 

Submitted by Turlough on

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Apparently that's a quote from the Einstein files. 

Turlough

Submitted by GlosKat on

I have heard that Turlough, and I daresay it's true.  We're certainly getting less civilized, not more. 

I think  WWIII will be fought with drones and hackers like some ghastly giant computer game.  

 

Submitted by Turlough on

But by then there'll be no oil, electricity, factories or megalomaniacal world leaders. After world war three there probably won't even be a world worth fighting over.

Turlough

Submitted by Ewan on

  is quite clearly insane. I would suspect tertiary syphilis-associated dementia if he hadn't passed all those medicals.

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Submitted by GlosKat on

Tertiary syphilis - is that what you get from being unfaithful to three wives ?

 

Submitted by Turlough on

He's following Idi Amin all the way. All that remains to be done is the cannibalism. I expect he's just waiting for the launch of the McDonald's Happy Meal with crispy child's leg pieces.

Turlough

Submitted by drew_gummerson on

Check news that rocket hasn't hurtled into sun, or Iran, then make Pick of Day. 
Spot on. Very good. 

 

Submitted by w.w.j.abercrombie on

Hilbert showed that one can go beyone infinity, apparently. Although I've yet to use that knowledge in any practical way. Pick of the day with 36 words - is this a record?

 

 

Submitted by Ewan on

 

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