Posted on 03/19/2025 6:43:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
VIDEOS AT LINK....................
This is really cool.
After a 9-month stay in space, Crew 9 returned in SpaceX's Dragon capsule.
But it gets even cooler. As the astronauts touched down, a pod of curious dolphins swam up to greet the returning astronauts.
SERIOUSLY, HOW COOL IS THIS?
What an incredible moment.
The astronauts then emerged, feeling full Earth gravity for the first time in almost a year.
One of the most inspiring and heartwarming moments of the year. Surely this is a bipartisan moment everyone can celebrate, right?
Eh, probably not.
Such a heartwarming story.
I watched it live. It was incredible to see the dolphins protecting our astronauts in the gulf of America
Maybe the dolphins thought it was an ancient probe from space that came back to communicate with them.
Well the craft does look a bit like a flying saucer. Maybe to the dauphins humans are some sort of alien from another world.
The dolphins: “Hey, let’s go see if these guys have any fish they don’t want.”
Good thing they were dolphins and not sharks!!
Dolphins are curious animals. They will swarm around boats just to look at people.
DO NOT FEED THE DOLPHINS!
It is against the law! and you will be fined heavily.................
Stranded?
I hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but the hatch on the spacecraft was closed. The dolphins did not know anything about the nature of the floating object. They were, in affect, greeting the people prepping the craft for pickup.
“So long and thanks for all the fish.”
The optics can’t be beat. The party of freedom and achievement getting things done and saving humans, the party of anger and hate doing their slow boil of irrelevance. What have they accomplished lately?
Williams and Wilmore became stranded when they couldn’t return on the Starliner that brought them. When the Dragon Crew 9 team came up, they arrived with 2 empty seats so they could hitch a ride back to earth. They had to wait until that crew finished its mission, and a crew-10 team arrived as replacements. Williams and Wilmore were stranded initially, so it’s been a useful term to describe those two astronauts as opposed to the others.
Party pooper.
Intentionally...................
Very thoughtful of Elon to arrange for dolphins.
My favorite part was when the stranded astronauts personally thanked Elon Musk for rescuing them - after Biden refused Musk’s help:
“I OFFERED THIS DIRECTLY to the Biden administration and they refused,” Musk wrote. (all caps in original).
Trump wrote “This began when I asked Elon Musk to go up and get the abandoned Astronauts, because the Biden Administration was incapable of doing so.”
Imagine if Harris were in office? How many years before the astronauts were rescued?
How long before some left-wing nut claims the dolphins were exploited for MAGA purposes.
2005 - "HHGG"
First thing I thought of also..
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