emperor constantine xii

if elections were held in the same week as tax day then the government would be so tiny fr

most semi-successful startup founders would find great success as the minister of propaganda for a mid-sized nation

(no i will not elaborate)

Nixon was only following a trend set by LBJ (who’d already cancelled Apollo Applications in 1967), to be honest Kennedy himself might’ve even cancelled Apollo outright had he not been assassinated (he was already considering handing Apollo off to be a “joint mission” study with the USSR)

von Braun saw the writing on the wall when Apollo Applications was cancelled in 1967 by LBJ and advised Paine that funding wouldn’t go up but still went on to spearhead mission planning for the IPP mars trip

he had a shady past but without him mankind never would’ve touched the surface of the moon

Nixon later agreed to an ambiguous plan of landing a man on Mars by 2000 (which was so far away that it was meaningless) and announced in 1972 that the space shuttle would be part of the future nasa budget

however funding for the other projects was scrapped entirely

Paine was stubborn and refused to back down from Nixon and demanded that all 3 parts of the IPP be implemented after getting support from the STG committee (he wanted a space station, moon base, AND mars mission) and Nixon’s refusal led to his resignation in 1970 on the anniversary of the STG report

Administrator Paine had expected NASA to be “rewarded” for winning the race to the moon but grossly underestimated the political capital NASA had and all of this would be eventually cut from the budget (except the prototype Skylab station and the shuttle)

good evening here’s old NASA concept art from the Integrated Program Plan (the proposed successor to the Apollo Applications program that was backed by then-administrator Paine and Agnew)

for y’all to tastefully experience some hella cool vibes

the elites don’t want you to know this but going on dates with random girls from hinge and then trauma dumping is just like therapy but ✨ free ✨

gm folks this is your reminder that we are now one day closer to a interplanetary human civilization

you should be warlordmaxxing you should be planning purges against your enemies you should be building up unregistered weapon stockpiles you should be training a team into a loyal household guard and when the day comes you should be crown yourself emperor and seize the Mandate of Heaven

everyone on bluesky is a federal agent or rogue LLM model except for you, anon

WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP

he was very cynical from working on ESA projects like hermes that got canned for political reasons and thought that we’d never reach mars within the century and i was a naive young optimist who thought the SLS/Constellation was a good idea and that he was a defeatist

one of the funniest things that happened to 11-12 year old me was feuding with a boomer french aerospace engineer on the kerbal space program forums to the point that both of us got constant temp banned for being too aggro at each other

running a vc-backed company is basically being a modern day hunter-gatherer it’s amazing

that 3 minutes when waking up from a late afternoon nap after a exhausting workday when you question who you are what year is it and why do you exist

if by mac miller you mean emperor marcus milleritius, one of the esstern roman emperors who paved a critical path in its transition from a latin to greek identity then yes 😇

this is where i post from when you speak to me i am mentally sitting on that chair

(also facedoxx)

please elect me president i am a normal politician and can be trusted with supreme executive power in a democratic system

they also wanted to put a space station in orbit with cameras so astronauts could literally just stuff going on below and send back canisters (was called the manned orbiting laboratory)

my counsel advises me to not answer this question (try it)

GOOD EVENING do not mix gasoline and styrofoam it will create napalm do not mix gasoline and styrofoam it will create napalm thank you for listening to my psa

i think we all misunderstand bluesky. this ISN’T a twitter competitor. it’s a pre-planned project between elon musk and jack dorsey to trick a potentially problematic set of twitter power users into self-quarantine.

i petition to pre-emptively ban all .gov handles inshallah this is a safe space from the feds

good morning this is your reminder that all that’s needed to make an ak-47 is a shovel and some imagination

one day some blank account is gonna join under the tag “anon@fbi.gov” and trigger one of the greatest social media user panics of all time

this is why sf should allow tech companies to install s-300 surface to air missile systems in their office parking lots

we could’ve prevented such a tragedy 😔

the great schism has begun

“terrorist” is such a harsh term, i prefer “constantine the twelveth, rightful emperor-in-exile of the romans”

there are DMs here! you can vividly imagine conversations with other users and bring up topics you imagined talking about with them irl and act like they’re crazy for not remembering it :)