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[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 23 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Very often, I was like "I don't think I need to watch this shuttle launch, they might have to scrub it" and then they'd actually launch and I was was like "damn, I should have watched that shuttle launch".

So I was like "naaah, I don't think I need to watch this launch, they might scrub it" and now it looks like they've launched and I was like "shit, I fell for that again, I'm really stupid"

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

The shuttle is Lucy holding the football and you live in a Charlie Brown world. ✌

[–] JATtho@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I watched the live stream of the launch. You never know what happens until the rocket has reached space. From significant past launches was the launch of JWST, that was truly nerve racking and exciting, although no people were on the board.

Hopefully nothing will break, and we perhaps get a moon base in this century. (we do have more urgent things to research, but space research tends to produce more eye-opening and unexpected results.)