# "Look at That, You Son of a Bitch!" -- Protest Reaches New Heights **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 14, 2017, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435 "2017-04-14T12:09:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/1 "2017-04-14T12:09:22Z")
> [@](#): > > **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](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asan-trump-protest-from-space_n_58f02867e4b0b9e9848ade36?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009)** > > The Autonomous Space Agency Network launched its weather balloon tweet in solidarity with the upcoming March for Science rally. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/2 "2017-04-14T12:31:50Z")
Sad. They couldn’t even reach 100,000 feet. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/3 "2017-04-14T13:33:36Z")
> [@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._ ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/4 "2017-04-14T13:38:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Evan\_Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Evan\_Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evan_Drake)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/5 "2017-04-14T14:07:59Z")
Kids do the darndest things. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/6 "2017-04-14T14:40:35Z")
> [@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… ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/7 "2017-04-14T14:57:46Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/8 "2017-04-14T15:03:10Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/9 "2017-04-14T15:26:03Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2017, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/look-at-that-you-son-of-a-bitch-protest-reaches-new-heights/784435/10 "2017-04-14T16:20:43Z")
Trump: I had bigger balloons for my son’s birthday party.