Image reads: “we’re flying electric helicopters on Mars yet you can’t turn on your clothes dryer in Texas. That’s because scientists are in charge of Mars, and Republicans are in charge of Texas”

  • @rImITywR
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    701 year ago

    Sadly, we are not flying any helicopters on Mars anymore. Ginny has been retired after being damaged.

    • GladiusB
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      1 year ago

      It however did not stop from flying because of politics

  • @[email protected]
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    481 year ago

    Your title made me wonder: would NASA get more funding if they strapped AR-15s onto the rovers and called it a liberation mission…

  • @Nunar
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    381 year ago

    Republicans hate Americans

  • BigFig
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    281 year ago

    What’s this about not turning on your clothes dryer?

    • @rockSlayer
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      351 year ago

      Due to climate change, TX has been experiencing unreliable electrical service in winter because ERCOT is a deregulated, market based electrical grid. This has incentivized the network to avoid making the grid reliable in extreme cold weather to minimize cost, so the extreme cold they’ve experienced has cut power to millions of people in Texas.

      • @Rakonat
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        301 year ago

        They didn’t weather proof the grid in either direction, extreme heat causes grid failures too as they overload it from everyone running a/c and several components failing due to overheating as well.

        Its got to be one of the worst run grids in the world, if not the worst. Grid wide failures due to weather conditions not even considered extreme a couple hundred miles to the north.

      • @[email protected]
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        101 year ago

        It’s not just because they’re deregulated but also because the Texas grid isn’t connected to the rest of the country because “muh freedumb”.

    • @Mango
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      61 year ago

      Texans are ugly and therefore can’t turn anything on.