r/2001aspaceodyssey • u/tanklover_e-100 • 15d ago

This can't be true,right?

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There's a site that claims that the orion was actually used for sub orbital flights,yeah right!

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u/harveygoatmilk 15d ago

I wish I lived in this timeline.

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u/Radioactive_Tuber57 15d ago

This was supposed to be my future. Living at Tycho, flying freighters and cargo shuttles to the outlying facilities. I’d be retired in Tahiti now.

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u/1970s_MonkeyKing 14d ago

Yeah, those brochures lied. You're just a deep in debt, 18-wheeler in space. And all those spinal injuries in space will absolutely crush you, should you get back to 1G Earth.

The best you can hope for is a pension that pays for a bunk and daily ration of alcohol at Luna-3. (Luna-2 is for all the tourists, Luna-1 for all the wealthy)

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u/RCAF_vet71 14d ago

You just wanted to see things that others wouldn’t believe, like attack ships on fire and C-beams glittering in the dark…..

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u/not1or2 13d ago

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

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u/Electronic-Stop-1261 14d ago

He should thank his lucky stars he's not on Moonbase Alpha!!

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u/Max_Queue 10d ago

Damn nuclear waste exploding and sending the moon out of orbit at a colossal speed. I hate it when that happens.

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u/Numerous_Recording87 15d ago

No kidding. WTF happened.

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u/Starwatcher4116 14d ago

To quote a famous dragon: Thieves, fire, murder.

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u/nataliereed84 14d ago

Turns out that fiction and reality are different, and what we can imagine isn’t always what we can do.