Anyone care to take a guess at the ratio of American TV viewers who know we just put a lander on Mars last Sunday to the number of American TV viewers who know that the toilet on the Space Station is currently broken?
I’m thinking it’s about 1 to 100. Maybe it’s closer to 1 to 1000.
It’s not just TV. Radio, newspapers…all have dedicated considerably more time and space to the “broken toilet” story than to the “WE’RE ON ANOTHER PLANET!!!!” story.
Maybe NASA should have put a toilet on the Phoenix lander, and then announced it was broken. Just for the extra coverage.
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Waning gibbous, February 20, 2022, 3:45 AM
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yes we are on Mars, but nobody on Mars needs to use a toilet!
- Marc
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