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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 87 points 1 week ago (44 children)

The first woman (Christina Koch), non-white person (Victor Glover), and non-American (Jeremy Hansen) in deep space. And Reid Wiseman.

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago

Wiseman is the oldest to travel out of LEO.

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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 67 points 1 week ago (7 children)

To be an astronaut you need to have a well defined jaw line.

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 week ago

High physical fitness is a requirement and that helps with the jaw line

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be an astronaut, you also need solid steel balls... and whatever the female equivilant would be to that statement.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago

What's the galvanic corrosion rate between steel and titanium? Is this why they don't want astronauts to fuck?

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

3 of them were in the army.

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Well it all goes away with the fluid shifts that happen in microgravity. Could you imagine the flabby chins that would occur with someone with a weak jaw line. I think its a self evident requirement.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

Damn woke devs!

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[–] EonNShadow@pawb.social 48 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Something about this hits the uncanny valley for me.

Touched-up with AI?

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it might be the lighting and backdrop. They're brightly lit from one side, with a very dark background, making them really pop out. It reminds me of the lighting that was popular in 1990's formal portrait photos, which I always thought looked odd.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That, and the color of the suits really isn't helping.

[–] ink@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

The color is so that they aren’t spotted by the space deer.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 week ago

Professional photography has been around for a long time. There's lots of it.

AI basically just copies existing things.

Ai copies professional photography.

Photo looks professional.

Therefore, photo looks ai.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Professional digital editors who have existed for decades take days to to touch up photos for press releases.

Fucking morons on the Internet in 2026: is this AI??

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[–] Triumph@fedia.io 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

The Artemis mission is so exciting

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not pictured: all the bags of pee

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I heard they were using an actual toilet this time? Which I would assume eliminates the need for bags of pee but I haven't really looked into it.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The toilet is malfunctioning, but only for liquid waste, somehow

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bummer. Hope fully they have backup bags.

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[–] mriormro@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

And that’s just cause one of them really likes pee.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 9 points 1 week ago

Heroic leader, super smart biologist/physicist, ace pilot, very polite weapons specialist who just likes blowing things up.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Not one dog? This is bullshit.

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