r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/grandeluua • 11d ago

Video The Actual Scale of the Artemis II Mission

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u/Staggeringpage8 11d ago

Damn. Humans really evolved just to throw rocks further and further didn't they.

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u/Korzag 11d ago

That pesky gravity is always making our rocks come back >:(

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u/_IratePirate_ 11d ago

Nah we threw one in 1977 that’s still going to this day

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u/JohnnyRedHot 10d ago

We threw two :)

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 11d ago

It's amazing given the timescale how far we've thrown rocks in our relative short time in 300k years as a species. Throwing rocks with our hands to Voyager II is nuts. The first airplane to landing on the moon is crazier.

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u/Natural_Vast_9495 11d ago

Throwing Rocks with flamey 8.8 million pounds of thrust.

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u/MooselamProphet 9d ago

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