NASA has a huge history of nerdy names with mythological references, allegedly rituals too
oh cool
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underscores@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Tonava@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Most people doing the science there are likely on the spectrum, so I wouldn’t expect anything less
haxboar@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Parsons
Founded JPL and Aerojet He was also a Thelemite occultist
Coopr8@kbin.earth 2 weeks ago
Wow, and doesnt he look just like you might imagine one.
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The tv show strange angel is about him and its wild.
AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Oh wow! I just learned about this dude yesterday lmao
Atrocity Guide just posted a video about him recently, wild shit
He also got scammed by Elron Hubbard out of his mansion and fortune which Hubbard basically used to found scientology
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks 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.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This reminds me of: youtu.be/kq7DDk8eLs8
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Adding more hydrogen will make the sun burn faster, so I guess spraying water will extinguish the sun a little earlier than it otherwise would.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Didn’t Cyclops convince a Sentinel to do something similar?
MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
A word for this is ‘backronym’
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wouldn’t they hit the moon instead?
TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yea extinguish that mf. Dude causes way too much light pollution already
Klear@quokk.au 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Juno was mad, he knew he’d been had…
Support_Depot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
So he shot at the sun with a gun
stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Literally the plot of American Gods
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t piss off Aten
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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…”
jankforlife@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
c/whatadamnmin
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
NO.
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Image
We stand for Sol
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The team of SG-1
We stand against false gods.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I’m still upset that this was canceled.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I thought these were Whitecloaks from WoT at first and then my dumbass was like “no, Whitecloaks have golden sunbursts on the chest of their uniforms, not red. Wait, what about The Hand Of the Light? No, that’s crimson shepherd’s crooks, not sunbursts”
That continued for a while before I noticed their fucking guns
Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Doesnt he get his ass kicked by Ra nightly as Ra travels through the underworld every night?
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Look it doesn’t matter much to me my heart weighs way more than a feather
EstraDoll@hexbear.net 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Mao. Why do you think the East is Red?