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Dolphins greet stranded astronauts during splash down in Gulf of America
Not The Bee ^ | March 19, 2025 | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: capsule; dolphins; dragon; intercession; notthebee; spacex; splashdown; starliner
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1 posted on 03/19/2025 6:43:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Such a heartwarming story.


2 posted on 03/19/2025 6:48:06 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

I watched it live. It was incredible to see the dolphins protecting our astronauts in the gulf of America


3 posted on 03/19/2025 6:51:05 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Red Badger

Maybe the dolphins thought it was an ancient probe from space that came back to communicate with them.


4 posted on 03/19/2025 7:04:43 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical object)
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To: Macho MAGA Man

Well the craft does look a bit like a flying saucer. Maybe to the dauphins humans are some sort of alien from another world.


5 posted on 03/19/2025 7:09:20 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: Red Badger

The dolphins: “Hey, let’s go see if these guys have any fish they don’t want.”


6 posted on 03/19/2025 7:09:45 AM PDT by jerseyman
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To: Red Badger

Good thing they were dolphins and not sharks!!


7 posted on 03/19/2025 7:14:27 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Macho MAGA Man

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.................


8 posted on 03/19/2025 7:15:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Stranded?


9 posted on 03/19/2025 7:26:59 AM PDT by crz
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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.


10 posted on 03/19/2025 7:31:11 AM PDT by GingisK
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“So long and thanks for all the fish.”


11 posted on 03/19/2025 7:33:24 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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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?


12 posted on 03/19/2025 7:34:43 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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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.


13 posted on 03/19/2025 7:36:55 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: GingisK

Party pooper.


14 posted on 03/19/2025 7:37:47 AM PDT by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow. SAMARIA )
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Intentionally...................


15 posted on 03/19/2025 7:44:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Very thoughtful of Elon to arrange for dolphins.


16 posted on 03/19/2025 7:47:06 AM PDT by Romulus ( )
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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?


17 posted on 03/19/2025 7:54:48 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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Very thoughtful of Elon to arrange for dolphins.

How long before some left-wing nut claims the dolphins were exploited for MAGA purposes.

18 posted on 03/19/2025 8:10:53 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: Macho MAGA Man
Maybe the dolphins thought it was an ancient probe from space that came back to communicate with them.


2005 - "HHGG"

19 posted on 03/19/2025 8:20:51 AM PDT by MacNaughton
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First thing I thought of also..


20 posted on 03/19/2025 10:05:58 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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