"Look at That, You Son of a Bitch!" -- Protest Reaches New Heights

[CalMeacham]

Space Group Protests Donald Trump From 90,000 Feet Above Earth

Edgar Mitchell, the late NASA astronaut who had walked on the moon, once said that when you see Earth from outer space, you develop a “global consciousness … an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”
“From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty,” Mitchell continued. “You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
Those same words were evoked this week in a project the Autonomous Space Agency Network is calling the “first protest in space.”
ASAN, an organization that promotes “DIY space exploration,” sent a tweet high above Earth using a homemade weather balloon in an attempt to get President Donald Trump’s attention.
The balloon floated 90,000 feet into the sky, toting a large printed tweet for Trump and a video camera. Although it didn’t reach the layer of atmosphere that is technically considered outer space, the balloon did get high enough for the camera to record the tweet floating above the curvature of the planet.
Its message was exactly what Mitchell had suggested: “LOOK AT THAT, YOU SON OF A BITCH.”

Space Group Protests Trump From 90,000 Feet Above Earth

[Amateur_Barbarian]

Sad. They couldn’t even reach 100,000 feet.

[Alley_Dweller]

@Amateur_Barbarian

Sad. They couldn’t even reach 100,000 feet.

No, no. That should be the other way around.

They couldn’t even reach 100,000 feet. Sad.

[Alley_Dweller]

So, did they actually expect Trump to see the message or even hear about it?

Did they expect the masses of Trump voters who read the Huffington Post to reconsider their positions?

While the Republicans are getting their supporters out to vote in the 2018 mid-term elections, the Democrats are indulging themselves in their vanity projects.

[Evan_Drake]

Kids do the darndest things.

[k9bfriender]

@Alley_Dweller

So, did they actually expect Trump to see the message or even hear about it?

Did they expect the masses of Trump voters who read the Huffington Post to reconsider their positions?

While the Republicans are getting their supporters out to vote in the 2018 mid-term elections, the Democrats are indulging themselves in their vanity projects.

You are right, something like this couldn’t help the democrats garner any support. No one is talking about it, no one at all…

[Alley_Dweller]

@k9bfriender

You are right, something like this couldn’t help the democrats garner any support. No one is talking about it, no one at all…

Oh yeah, the readers of the Huff Post and the Dope are talking about it. You’ll reach a lot of Trump supporters there.

[Czarcasm]

@Alley_Dweller

Oh yeah, the readers of the Huff Post and the Dope are talking about it. You’ll reach a lot of Trump supporters there.

Well, I was going to bump it, but you already have.
Three times so far.

[k9bfriender]

@Alley_Dweller

Oh yeah, the readers of the Huff Post and the Dope are talking about it. You’ll reach a lot of Trump supporters there.

Who said anything at all about trump supporters?

You said that the republicans are rallying their base, and the dems are doing vanity projects.

Now, this is a small thing, to be sure, and was done by a couple of people, not by the “democrat collective.”

A small thing, done by a small group of people, that is being talked about by a much larger group of people.

That is pretty much the definition of rallying your base.

If anyone still supports Trump at this point, I don’t think that anything is going to get through to them, much less an appeal to our shared humanity.

[Channing_Idaho_Banks]

Trump: I had bigger balloons for my son’s birthday party.