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Just as the President of the United States was accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, one of his country’s famous agencies was bombing the hell out of an innocent rock that orbits our planet, “to find water.” Here is the command center, broadcasting live from a local middle school’s AV room, just after the bombing. Some were excited, but others were LEFT HANGING. Bro what’s up with that? [YouTube]
He should know better. The only hand sign NASA nerds respond to is the Vulcan “live long and prosper” sign.
Hey bro what Nobel u one lately.
That guy just stone cold looked at the younger guy and said, “Hell no, pipsqueek!” I guess he was upset that his dastardly plan to blow up the moon failed.
They should have used Reagan’s Star Wars thingie. It brought down the Berlin Wall & helped Bush quit drinking.
Jim, are you back? I thought you were going to walk up the West Coast.
As somebody who grew up in a NASA household, the only thing whiter than a room full of NASA engineers is something that completely reflects all the colors of the visible light spectrum.
Needs more hand sanitizer.
norbizness: So you’re saying Ultra-White Scientist #1 didn’t understand the gesture White (yet culturally observant) Scientist #2 was making?
I’d like to point out that you can subscribe to the poster’s youtube feed for some awesome Starcraft videos. sp@c3 n3rd$
Wow. So that’s the biggest dork at NASA? I wonder if he’s willing to be the Cleric.
Having spent my entire adult life working in research facilities, I know that sometimes co-workers can get all nerdgasmic and require some kinda triumphal interaction - a high-five, a little science-dance, a calm exchange of nods, etc…
WHAT THAT ONE NASA GUY DID TO THE OTHER THAT WAS JUST COLD
OT: I miss SKS. Are there any new babby pics? DEMAND UPDATE!
bitchincamaro: Definitely. What you didn’t see is that guy didn’t wash his hands in the bathroom.
For all we know he could be one of those guys that asks for a high-five ALL THE TIME.
NASA scientists! They’re just like us! Total dickfaces!
“I will not commit to your high five, good sir, until we have successfully crashed the fucking moon back into the sun from whence it came.”
Obama brought Peace to Planet Earth by exiling War to the Moon.
Hey, lighten up on these guys, at least the clip-on ties went away. Looks like somebody was passing out red and black shirts at the ASME show to go with the khaki slacks from Costco.
Did the older guy just say to the younger bro, “Don’t be a suck-up.” ?
Hey, at least he didn’t do the straighten-my-hair fakeout. Still cold, though.
Wow, a NASA scientist that undoubtedly speaks jive!
Unfortunatly, none of the moonbats were on the moon at the time of the bombing.
I’m searching for the longer clip (anyone?) that shows the bizarre, rapid egress of the refuser. Dude unplugs, wraps cord, stuffs backpack, and leaves room in like 30 seconds.
The guy just had a sadz that the fireworks fizzled. He jammed his laptop and power cord in the bag and split out without a word to anyone, while everyone else was still trying to figure out what just happened.
Or maybe he pooped his pants…
That wasn’t a high-five.
That was a Jedi Force Push, and it cold stopped the dude in his tracks.
That’s not a high five, it’s secret NASA code for “oh s***, we just knocked the moon off its orbit.”
A hanging high five is a dish best served cold, … like space, KHAAAHHHNN1!11
FUCK YOU, MOON.
So, feet instead of meters, again?
Well, I’d rather have them bombing the moon than bombing weddings in Afghanistan.
That’s what’s known as a “Brooklyn Standoff”.
He should have tried the Terrorist Fist Bump, instead.
The great thing about NASA is that everything they do happens someplace else, where no one can see it, so they control all media coverage. It’s so much fun to watch teevee talking heads who only took Science for Idiots in college trying to sound knowledgeable while reading NASA press releases.
Well, actually it’s not fun, it’s boring as hell. That’s why we need more war! All war all the time! USA!
TGY: Or degrees vs radians, as in the Case of the Mars Climate Orbiter.
It’s like looking into the zoo’s Nerd cage.
Talk to the hand, Moonman.
malvones: How else would you like me to inform you of Starcraft videos?
jasper f. krone: Nerd
mardam422: yeah, well…
I just checked back with HQ, and there’s some not-at-all convincing footage at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/index.html of the “impact”. Don’t tell Buzz I said that.
Send any extra high-fives for that poor nerd to this instant reaction Tumblr:
http://loveforthemoonbomber.tumblr.com/
*Sorry if that doesn’t work right, not fancy enough for your “technical” “posting” “rules”. I normally just click the little clicky with the chain in it.
Hey, Wonkette Veterans (and/or Jim):
What does it mean when I get the message:
“A username and password are being requested by http://wonkette.com. The site says: “ha5kfu-2x”
Is that some kind of a hackronym (”Hah! 5000 fuck you two times!”?) Or Jim’s ham radio call sign?
Left hanging or the dreaded Moutza? Based on the hasty retreat and flustered look on the face of engineer #1 it appears he was given the Moutza by the seated engineer, presumably for some infraction of sliderule ettiquite during the pre-impact count down.
Per Glenn Beck, that was a “Heil Obama.”
I actually saw this live, chuckled inside, and thought I might see it made fun of on the daily show tonight. Good scoop, wonkette.
No high fives until you find water space-tard.
no love for me, the submitter of the link
joe2: High Fi..PSYCHE!
Wait….I just scrolled through the entire thread and no one made a “high-fivin’ white guys” reference? Slow day here on Wonkette, I guess….
jmfleetwood: I’ll back you up on that. Old dude booked it out of there pronto. No time for high-fives, I guess. Young dude was bummed.
Extemporanus: *spins around in chair and puts headset back on*
I’ll side with the dork any day. As opposed to the “Manage by Intimidation” mid-level supervisor devoid of humor.
Apparently fulfilling the high-five sequence would have alerted suspicious minds to their obvious sexual involvement. This would have been awkward since they had all just spent the day preparing to penetrate the fucking moon.
We don’t need to go to the moon to get water. We have more than enough here. Drill baby drill!
His refusal to hi-5 was due of his haste to return the rental laptop back to the rent-a-center. Funding cuts by the party of NO has consequences.
Now that mission control isn’t stage managed like the moon launches, I like how the mission control looks like a high school cafeteria with computers, rather than the previous 1960s James Bond version.