Who else isnt paying attention to the space shuttle???

[futuresailors]

I thought they scrapped that piece of shit months ago...
Now this is a space shuttle:

[plhogan]

Legitimately Depressing you kids arent excited by space anymore. I guess instead of astronauts everybody wants to grow up to be a reality stars or make a sex tape or blog.

Takes balls of steel to sit in a tin can with electronics less advanced than your cell phones and an explosion under your ass, eh?

[counterdestroy]

i know literally nothing of any space shuttle

[devnulljp]

It's the last flight of Endeavour.

but that really has nothing to do with the shuttle taking off now does it? The real news would be the announcement that it is the last flight which I assume has happened weeks if not months ago. Therefore, this news is not news at all.

Huh? How can the last flight have happened months ago if it just took off, which is why everybody here is yawning?

Let's try again.
*They're scrapping the space shuttle.
*Endeavour is the youngest of the space shuttles.
*This is it's last mission.
*Yesterday was its last launch.
*It is now in space.
*It will come back soon and be decommissioned and put in a museum.
*This is, however, not interesting to hipsters.

No wonder science education is in the toilet. Nobody gives a shit. You don't get to complain in 25 years when China is outsourcing 2 Yuan a day jobs to Kentucky to people who think the world is 6000 years old and their cell phones work by magic.

[Derelict78]

No wonder science education is in the toilet. Nobody gives a shit. You don't get to complain in 25 years when China is outsourcing 2 Yuan a day jobs to Kentucky to people who think the world is 6000 years old and their cell phones work by magic.

[adrianlee]

hahahahaha.

[snipelfritz]

I'm not saying that space exploration itself isn't important or interesting. In fact I'm really not saying anything about space exploration at all, and neither are any of you. My point is that the end of space shuttle usage and the space shuttle's final flight are two entirely separate things both of them non-issues. Apparently it's difficult to explain that something not happening is not anything to talk about. Especially when the issue is something as expected as the ending of usage for a technology that has been used for literally half the history of that field of such rapidly advancing technology.

The only real information at hand is that this space shuttle won't be used any longer. I'm making the assumption that this was announced a considerable time ago(by 21st century news standards) and therefore anything at this point is just useless, subjective dribble. Reality TV was a perfect comparison. Nothing of substance ever really happens on these shows. There are minor plot points which are simply played out to an extreme through people's reactions. It's all about the exploitation of inevitable drama which really should be kept to oneself, so much so that it drastically dilutes the importance of what triggered the drama in the first place.

I'm expressing my contempt for the frivolity of the glorification of the dissemination of information which fails to really inform anyone about anything at all. After all, that's what this thread is about, according to the title at least.



EDIT: and futuresailors, that pic totally reminded me of this right away:

[unownunown]

i think you guys are missing the point. the dude who wrote shoplifting from american apparel is selling a ton of his shit on ebay.

[Christopher]

No wonder science education is in the toilet. Nobody gives a shit. You don't get to complain in 25 years when China is outsourcing 2 Yuan a day jobs to Kentucky to people who think the world is 6000 years old and their cell phones work by magic.

Jokes on you, in 25 years China's currency will be the most valuable in the world.

[snipelfritz]

No wonder science education is in the toilet. Republican's forgot it's the only reason we won the Cold War and became the only world super-power. You don't get to complain in 25 years when China is outsourcing 2 Yuan a day jobs to Kentucky to people who can actually reach the top shelf.

Jokes on you, in 25 years American's won't have enough disposable income to buy shelves, much less something to put on them.

Convo fix'd

[SPACERITUAL]

Legitimately Depressing you kids arent excited by space anymore. I guess instead of astronauts everybody wants to grow up to be a reality stars or make a sex tape or blog.

Takes balls of steel to sit in a tin can with electronics less advanced than your cell phones and an explosion under your ass, eh?

Spending billions a year on something that doesnt directly benefit me at all? Why the fuck would i be excited by it. It takes balls of steel to invade middle eastern countries and completely control the infrastructure yet still make no discernable difference on gas prices but you dont see me giving a fuck about that either.

[snipelfritz]

The greatest freedom is the freedom from giving a shit.

[unownunown]

i mean have you guys read shoplifting from american apparel? tao lin is a pretty cool guy. he did a book reading/q&a session/signing on shrooms.

a lot of people say he's attention whoring but i think they aren't down with his brand of performance art.

[SPACERITUAL]

he did a book reading/q&a session/signing on shrooms.

OH WOW HE DID SOMETHING HIGH WHAT A ROLE MODEL.

The greatest freedom is the freedom from giving a shit.

For real. And honestly, fuck voting.

[snipelfritz]

I finally looked up what you're talking about. I was expecting some guy who stole a bunch of overpriced shit from American Apparel, published a guide on how to do so and was selling they're bland yet mysteriously appealing clothing at reasonable prices. I was disappointed.