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[–] Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 78 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I've played dead space and I don't like where this is going!

[–] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp

[–] CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

How else you gonna open boxes?

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

No this is great, any space organisms are illegals and ICE should deal with them. Get to it.

[–] inimzi@lemmy.today 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Could it be related to 3I Atlas?

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. That's it.

[–] Numenor@lemmy.world 59 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Bullshit, no way a helicopter can reach the space station.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's only a few hundred miles. Many helicopters can fly way farther.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And you only need fuel for one direction.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Just autorotate down. I've seen it in the telly.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

First Trump, and now Protomolecule. What's next?

[–] Vupware@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 weeks ago

Oh god, if Trump took Miller’s place Holden would have just offed himself

[–] e8CArkcAuLE@piefed.social 44 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

isn’t this standard procedure to get them to a hospital asap?
my bet is on the cosmonaut, he was the least enthusiastic in the photos before descent. alas this just might be cultural

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, also because they want to keep them isolated. Usually there's a recovery period after returning from space.

[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Affecting "a single crew member who is stable", first baby conceived in space

A zero g fetus? That's how you end up with Gyoro Gyoro, people! The limbs don't know where to emerge from!!

[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] dwemthy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Interesting, makes sense. I'm downgrading my guess to a sex injury

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oooh, now that's a good theory.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

With an alien baby

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is how every zombie movie starts.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Shaun of the Dead started differently.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

Does Chris Frost play the President this time?

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago
[–] inimzi@lemmy.today -1 points 3 weeks ago

🤣🤣🤣

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

It is not I who are crazy, it is I who are MAD!

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What ever happened to the astronauts stuck up there for months on end? They should have faked a sickness.

[–] Thorry@feddit.org 71 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

They had the option to return at any moment in case of emergency. They were never "stuck", that's just something the media made up. Emergency evacuation of the ISS is possible at all times, that's a pretty strict rule. They just chose not to, since there wasn't any real reason to. Sure it was unplanned they would stay that long, but those are still two very valuable crew members that can do a lot of work. So they just did their job. And as both of them worked very hard to get there, staying wasn't really a punishment or anything.

In the end they went home on a different vehicle, as the one they arrived on had too many issues to risk it (even though it worked fine in the end, but they didn't want to take unnecessary chances)

[–] TheOneCurly@feddit.online 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If they did that they would have come down strapped to the floor with cargo netting. There were options but they were real bad.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 weeks ago

Eh, it certainly wouldn't be as comfortable as the seats, but I wouldn't say it was "real bad".

I think the bigger problem was that they didn't have enough suits for everyone, so if there was a depressurization event, that would be real bad.

Elon showed up in a Tesla and brought them back to his Texas compound.

[–] metawolfgxd@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When you gotta go you gotta go man, and there is nowhere to go to up there.

[–] Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's space, there's tons of space to go. Who knows maybe a billion years from now the turd you release becomes a planet killing asteroid but brings new life to it.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

In space, no one lets you pee?

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

and Fantastic 4, and The Thing (not from Fantastic 4)...

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

And that movie with Gyllenhaal, Ferguson and Reynolds.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

While I understand the desire for medical confidentiality, I think when it comes to space travel, the public, or at very least the scientific community, deserves to know some details. It's not like we're swimming in data about medical emergencies in zero-G, every little bit is important.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 0 points 3 weeks ago

And they left three skeletons IN SPACE!! Skeletons in space! It's horrible. We're all going to die.