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YummyYugi@ani.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months ago

Stranded astronauts plan to vote in the 2024 election from space

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Stranded astronauts plan to vote in the 2024 election from space

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The two American astronauts stuck on the International Space Station through February will still be able to cast their ballots while in orbit.
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    In Texas, it’s easier to vote by mail if you’re in fucking space than if you’re in a black ZIP code.

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      Uh oh, do they have to vote through Huston?

      If so, there might have a … problem.

      I’ll see myself out.

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    Maybe Trump will promise to go get them. Maybe he will go up in space himself and we can just leave him up there

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      Well, based on an earlier thread, it takes a LOT less fuel to launch someone out of the solar system than into the sun, so we could always do that

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        Id be satisfied with a well built trebuchet. No need to waste too many resources.

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          I reckon we could launch him about 300 meters

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            I’m not sure he’s not over 90 kg, so the distance may be impacted by additional blubber

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        It’s all about working as a team. 🥰

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    Y’know thry always make a big media event about the polls opening at midnight in some podunk New England town that does a symbolic “first ballot of the nation”. Might be fun to make a similar scene for the ISS.

    “The off-planet vote is breaking strongly for Harris despite RFK’s residence far outside Earth’s gravitational pull.”

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    For Robert Kennedy, one assumes, since they had to learn the Earth is flat while rehearsing for the “mission.”

    /s The earth is obviously a dodecahedron. Otherwise, water would reflect things like a funhouse mirror.

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    This is the only way to legally vote by remote electronics in Texas. Must be registered in Harris County. And must be voting from outer space.

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      That’s really interesting. I wonder how voting works (or doesn’t) for US researchers in remote parts of the world, like McMurdo station?

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    I hope the mailman won’t have any problems returning.

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      Neither rain nor sleet nor snow nor micrometeor shower

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    Bring them home!

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