I shared some of these pictures with family members that hadn’t even heard of Artemis, and one asked if the blue thing was Mars. I am shook.

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sho_hn 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Maybe I'm an eternal optimist, but sounds to me like they actually tried to put themselves into space, made the assumption that anything visible past the moon must be further out and were left with "wait, I thought it was supposed to be red?"

Uninformed, but not ignorant and perhaps even interested. I hope your response started with "No, actually, even cooler: ..." and you made a space fan that day.

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ramesh31 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There needs to be a word for that feeling of dread you get when reminded of just how feeble and weak the average human mind is, and how tenuous of a grasp on reality most people have.

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dboreham 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'd be genuinely curious to see a list of the things they had heard of, since Artemis has been in the news constantly for a month. E.g. have they just not heard of anything (consume no news), or are they in some news silo that excludes rockets, and if so what other things does it include? We may be missing something important that we've never heard of!

	▲	dylan604 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It just goes to show how normal space flight is compared to the Apollo era. All the way up to Apollo 11, people stopped what they were doing to watch. Apollo 13 grabbed some attention with the near disaster. The first Shuttle missions were watched, but people quickly lost interest. Even this going back to the moon was nothing new to the average person. When people claim it was all over the news seems like someone in an echo chamber. It might have been in your news feeds, but I doubt it was as predominate as you might think. If your "news" feed is nothing but influencers and celebrities, then NASA probably never even interrupts their feeds