Not one dog? This is bullshit.
The “american stereotype” look is the Canadian. /s
To be an astronaut you need to have a well defined jaw line.
High physical fitness is a requirement and that helps with the jaw line
To be an astronaut, you also need solid steel balls… and whatever the female equivilant would be to that statement.
Titanium uterus.
What’s the galvanic corrosion rate between steel and titanium? Is this why they don’t want astronauts to fuck?
I don’t have one and would absolutely not be capable of fixing a toilet in space
Well it all goes away with the fluid shifts that happen in microgravity. Could you imagine the flabby chins that would occur with someone with a weak jaw line. I think its a self evident requirement.
3 of them were in the army.
If you’re physically fit but have a weak jaw and/or chin, your jaw line would probably still be well defined.
Damn woke devs!
Heroic leader, super smart biologist/physicist, ace pilot, very polite weapons specialist who just likes blowing things up.
The first woman (Christina Koch), non-white person (Victor Glover), and non-American (Jeremy Hansen) in deep space. And Reid Wiseman.
Wiseman is the oldest to travel out of LEO.
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Hi.
Canadian here.
Fuck you. We’re not American. Never call us American.
The critique isn’t that canadians are basically USians its that the US appropriates the name of the entire continent(s) “America” for it’s own country name.
And nobody on this continent gives a shit.
You just heard it from a Canadian, but also the US has not appropriated the name of entire continents for itself. The continent it shares with Canada and Mexico is “North America” and “North American” still applies to people from those countries. The US hasn’t taken anything away from anyone else in this naming scheme, and nobody who actually lives here will get confused by these terms and who they apply to.
The “critique” is a non-issue pushed mainly by uppity Europeans that nobody in this side of the pond cares about at all.
The “critique” is a non-issue pushed mainly by uppity Europeans
fwiw I’ve seen it most often from Latin Americans.
Geographically speaking, no. If you are basing that on his continent of origin as opposed to country of origin, Canada uses the 7-continent model meaning North America and South American are considered two distinct continents. This means that somebody born in Canada is, for all geographical intents and purposes, North American, or Canadian. Just “American” doesn’t make sense in this context.
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That’s like saying southern europeans are not european.
No it’s not like that at all, there’s no continent called “Southern Europe”.
Canada is in the american continent.
No it’s not. It’s in the North American continent. Canada uses the 7 continent model, which includes the North American and South American continents.
In Canada there is no continent just called “America”. So a Canadian calling themselves “American” makes no sense. They would either be Canadian referring to their country of origin, or North American referring to their continent of origin.
This is why the treaty that historically allowed free trade between Canada, the US, and Mexico was called NAFTA, or North American Free Trade Agreement, and not AFTA.
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Having a “North America” implies there’s an “America”, it doesn’t come out of the blue. You didn’t start with a North America, you start with America and then divide it between north and south.
The singular America that you’re referring to that in fact did not come out of the blue was a man by the name of Amerigo Vespucci. He is credited with discovering what we now know as the two distinct continents of North America and South America, together referred to as “The Americas” (Plural) which were named after him.
If there’s no such thing as an “America”, then why have a northern america?
Because Amerigo “discovered” two continents. One is further north, the other south. Hence, North America, and South America. You’re also confusing terms. There’s a difference between “North America” and “Northern America”. Similar to how there is a big difference between “North Ireland” and “Northern Ireland”. These are not interchangeable terms.
Why is everyone reacting like I’m claiming Canada is part of the US?
They’re reacting like you’re claiming that the astronaut is “American”, which you are, and he isn’t. He’s North American, or Canadian. If you just say “American” then you’re referring to somebody from the United States, which he isn’t. You’re acting like the word “North” in “North American” can be dropped in this context without changing the meaning but you’re incorrect.
Because how can you not be a non-American if America doesn’t exist? Good day Sir!
Because “American” is the recognized demonym for the citizens of the country United States of America. It refers to the citizens of that country, not the continent it’s in.
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Je sais pas de quoi tu parles, c’est tout juste si je suis Canadien, aucune crisse de chance que je sois américain.
mdr
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For geographical purposes… Re-reading your comment. Ok i’ll give it to you, thats even something i might have said myself. It doesnt deserve all the downvotes. Thing is with Trumps 51st state push, canadians have become vert sensitives with being called américains.
For geographical purposes he’s still wrong. If you’re Canadian you were taught the 7-continent model in school growing up. There is no “American” continent.
That fella is using a primitive and culturally reductive unified America continent model which does not apply to the people who live here.
The fact you think “America” is a continent says everything anyone needs to know about your knowledge of geography.
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That fact you think you can tell someone else how their culture should work makes you the biggest piece of shit.
My culture and how I experience me and our people own our culture isn’t a debate. It’s reality.
You don’t get to define how my country’s people identify ourselves.
Politely, go fuck yourself.
The culture of the people who live in a place takes precedence over the culture of people across an ocean lol.
Nah. Get fucked, bud.
I think people forget that the United States has no official demonym, and that America, like Great Britain, is a place not a country.
Personally, I’m a fan of adopting Station, since we all seem to have decided that the United States is a nation and not a federal system.
As an aside and fun fact: my favorite demonym is Solarian, which encompasses all people from the Solar System. The Solar System, sometimes confusingly, is named like the Moon where all moons are moons, but ours is the Moon. (Solarian is sometimes confused with Terran, but that is specific to the Earth-Moon system. All Terrans are Solarian, but not all Solarians are Terran.)
i like statesian. this is Station
in South America we just call them gringos, is clear and easy
Could Gringoland work?
Something about this hits the uncanny valley for me.
Touched-up with AI?
Professional photography has been around for a long time. There’s lots of it.
AI basically just copies existing things.
Ai copies professional photography.
Photo looks professional.
Therefore, photo looks ai.
Professional digital editors who have existed for decades take days to to touch up photos for press releases.
Fucking morons on the Internet in 2026: is this AI??
I would say inexperienced, not morons. I didn’t assume AI, but it did feel edited. To younger people who have more experience with ai edits vs professional editing, they’re just going off what they know.
If you assume everything is AI because it’s doesn’t quite look perfect, even if it’s just a picture being taken because professional photography exists… You’re a fucking moron and you should be called out for it.
Has nothing to do with inexperience. If you assume everything is AI you’re an idiot.
I think it might be the lighting and backdrop. They’re brightly lit from one side, with a very dark background, making them really pop out. It reminds me of the lighting that was popular in 1990’s formal portrait photos, which I always thought looked odd.
That, and the color of the suits really isn’t helping.
The color is so that they aren’t spotted by the space deer.
Not everything is ai
Sounds like something ai would say >.> /s
Please identify all the astronauts in this picture for me?
Did you count the fingers?
There’s just no way it wasn’t touched up with AI… look at the woman’s face and hair. Pretty obvious.
Josh Valcarcel is the photographer of this portrait. He has been working as a professional photographer for close to 20 years. He doesn’t need AI to make beautiful portraits like these.
Here is an interesting interview with Josh about this portrait specifically and his background in photography.
Let’s give this man the credit he deserves instead of AI.
All professional photos are touched up to some degree. It doesn’t mean they used AI to do it.
No one’s looking at the same camera?
Never taken a professional group photo before? Sometimes you’re explicitly asked not to look by the camera man.
Professional photographers exist for a reason.
Appears as if three are looking over the right shoulder of the photographer. Only one is looking straight into the lens.
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?
how is this related to scara ✌️
The Artemis mission is so exciting
Not pictured: all the bags of pee
And that’s just cause one of them really likes pee.
I heard they were using an actual toilet this time? Which I would assume eliminates the need for bags of pee but I haven’t really looked into it.
The toilet is malfunctioning, but only for liquid waste, somehow
Bummer. Hope fully they have backup bags.
The morning before the moon flyby they were informed by Houston that the shitter’s full and they have one pee left in the budget.
To bravely go where we’ve been before, to do the job a 5$ webcam could do.
They’ve actually mounted Gopros to the spacecraft for exterior pictures.
The astronauts take pictures using a Nikon DSLR and iphones.
They write down their observations in OneNote.
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You’re the kind of person people accidentally become acquaintances with then quickly distance themselves from, huh?
Remember that most astronauts are from the army and trained to kill people.
Just FYI the army also has other tasks such as the Army Corps of Engineers who built the panama canal.
Still trained to obey orders and to kill people
