NASA has a huge history of nerdy names with mythological references, allegedly rituals too
oh cool
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underscores@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Most people doing the science there are likely on the spectrum, so I wouldn’t expect anything less
haxboar@hexbear.net 15 hours ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
Founded JPL and Aerojet He was also a Thelemite occultist
Coopr8@kbin.earth 14 hours ago
Wow, and doesnt he look just like you might imagine one.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
The tv show strange angel is about him and its wild.
MurrayL@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
A word for this is ‘backronym’
Kolanaki@pawb.social 18 hours ago
One of the rockets sprays water at the sun.
This is to see what would happen, but is also an attempt at extinguishing the sun.
toynbee@lemmy.world 9 minutes ago
Didn’t Cyclops convince a Sentinel to do something similar?
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
This reminds me of: youtu.be/kq7DDk8eLs8
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Wouldn’t they hit the moon instead?
TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Yea extinguish that mf. Dude causes way too much light pollution already
Klear@quokk.au 17 hours ago
The moon is super important because it shines during the night when it’s dark, while the sun is only ever in the sky during the day when it’s bright outside, so it’s much less important.
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Juno was mad, he knew he’d been had…
Support_Depot@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
So he shot at the sun with a gun
jankforlife@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
c/whatadamnmin
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
Apep… I mean… I get why they’d want to extinguish the sun, I can’t imagine they had a good time in grade school with a name like “Apep…”
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
NO.
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Ya know what happened to Apep(the deity)?
He got his fucking ass kicked by Ra. Hell, if I remember right, he also gets his ass kicked by Horus at least once.
Basically, don’t fuck with the sun. It’s got hands. And a beak.
xylol@leminal.space 17 hours ago
Image
We stand for Sol
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
The team of SG-1
We stand against false gods.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I’m still upset that this was canceled.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in “Vikings.”
(cautiously checks for weird features like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking…)
What’s this from?
It looks pretty rad.
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 15 hours ago
Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Doesnt he get his ass kicked by Ra nightly as Ra travels through the underworld every night?
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I’m fairly certain you’re right, I just can’t remember if it was that exact attempt at fucking with the Sun that started that, or if that was another time.
Because Ra has nothing but burning hatred for Apep, and it was well damned earned. Snake refuses to learn the lesson.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Look it doesn’t matter much to me my heart weighs way more than a feather
EstraDoll@hexbear.net 16 hours ago
the Romans knew the sun as Sol Invictus, or “The Unconquerable Sun”. Ever hear the story about the man who conquered the sun?
Me either
huf@hexbear.net 2 hours ago
Mao. Why do you think the East is Red?