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Sheriff Wayne Ivey of Brevard County – where the launch site is located – insisted that anyone who wanted to witness the event at the Kennedy Space Center should do so without worry, despite advice from NASA to watch remotely.
"We are not going to keep the great Americans that want to come watch that from coming here," Ivey said on Friday, calling on people to "come here just like you have for all the other beautiful launches we've had. And enjoy it."
If NASA is telling people to not come here and watch the launch, that's on them. I'm telling people what I believe as an American. And so NASA has got their guidelines, and I got mine.
Ivey – an ally of US President Donald Trump, who has also questioned Covid-19 containment measures in some states – didn't entirely dismiss fears of the lethal virus, however, advising that launch-watchers should practice "family social distancing" and remain in small groups.
[...] NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told a news conference earlier on Friday that "we don't want an outbreak," voicing concerns that hundreds of thousands of spectators could flock to the space center to see the launch, risking further spread of the coronavirus.
"The challenge that we're up against right now is we want to keep everybody safe," Bridenstine said. "And so we're asking people not to travel to the Kennedy Space Center, and I will tell you that makes me sad to even say it. Boy, I wish we could make this into something really spectacular."
Gwynne Shotwell, the president of SpaceX – which partnered with NASA for the mission, providing its Crew Dragon capsule and Falcon 9 rockets to bring two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) – said much the same, asking people to "be there for the ride with us," but "in spirit more so than in physical space."
So, the Sheriff wouldn't arrest you, but there are other law enforcement organizations that might look at things differently. Being in a jail cell in close quarters with others compounds the risk of coming down with COVID-19. And, even if you were not arrested, you could still get infected (or be an asymptomatic carrier yourself) and transmit it to others who would return to who-knows-where.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 03 2020, @08:57PM (28 children)
This story appears to have been submitted by a sockpuppet account of Runaway's, as the supposedly unique, hidden hostmasks in the IRC chatroom matched for both nicknames. Now, that *could* just have meant two people were using the same Tor node or something, but the fact that "nutherguy" specifically addressed me as "'Zumi" in-channel kind of josses that idea :)
Look for more stories in the "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" vein from various ran-away sockpuppets in the future. I'm kind of puzzled as to why he didn't just submit under his normal nick but whatever. Poor opsec is poor opsec.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @09:18PM (5 children)
Do you have a newsletter I can sign up for? I like reading wild paranoia fantasies. How do we know you're not just an angry sockpuppet on Soylent?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday May 03 2020, @09:46PM (4 children)
Because I don't post AC or submit stories under other names. I have nothing to hide and a clean conscience; I can face the full light of the sun unashamed. Which is more than you can say, most likely.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @09:53PM (2 children)
I have nothing to hide and a clean conscience; I can face the full light of the sun unashamed.
Ah, but the chickenshit down mods belie all that bullshit. You're just as goofy as the rest.
Still love ya though
Ciao babe
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 04 2020, @01:15PM (1 child)
Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes :D
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @01:54PM
Absolutely! You're the champ!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 03 2020, @11:11PM
Oh sure, mock us poor Vampire-Americans.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday May 04 2020, @05:33AM (11 children)
The drama thickens! It turns out there's no SN account for nutherguy. It's clearly Runaway posing as nutherguy on some IRC chat room that nobody cares about. We'll keep you posted as news develops.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @07:33AM
SOME IRC Chat room? khallow, surely you jest! This is the heart of SoylentNews! It is where only people who understand CLI can hang out, and the fact that a monkey like Runaway not only learned to do IRC submissions, but how to sockpuppet his submissions, for reasons that are well understood, suggests a further level of obfuscation is in order! But poor Runaway1956 has had to do this several times, after getting banned from the Silverwing forums, from the Fox News foaming at the mouth comments section, and ending up here, it is not suprising that he can no longer use his given name, *** ******, because of the contraining orders and outstanding warrants, but now he is no longer able to even use his Runaway moniker. So sad, because, you know, he is not just a notherguy, he is THE other guy. Actual trigger finger on JFK! I shit you knot! Just ask Trump and Ted Cruise!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 04 2020, @01:21PM (9 children)
I'd just hate for people to think his brand of rebel-without-a-clue shitposting has more support than it actually does, that's all. I dunno what it is about guys like him, maybe some kind of sunk-costs fallacy, but as time goes on he only seems to be doubling down on the worst aspects of himself.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by khallow on Monday May 04 2020, @02:06PM (8 children)
I'm quite comfortable with you being a hater. It's your thing.
When have you ever tried to see any other aspects of Runaway?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @03:12PM (5 children)
Noice, that shpecial kinda khallow tone trolling bullshit.
At this point I'm guessing there are half a dozen of you with 2-3 sockpuppets each just driving this place into the ground. At this point calling you Russian agents would be too generous. Sad little capitalist fascists.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 04 2020, @03:48PM (4 children)
If only there was anything else to your posts than tone.
No, you're spinning another fantasy narrative. Very different from guessing since you're not even trying for accuracy.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 04 2020, @04:17PM (3 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @06:05PM (2 children)
cuz u is stoooopid
you is duuuumb
you can haz crackers
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 04 2020, @06:21PM (1 child)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @10:53PM
u can haz cracker cuz u IS kraka!
kraka laka shallow da parrot
pining parrot
prrot pining for der fjoooords!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 05 2020, @12:13AM (1 child)
Runaway has "aspects"? You know, that soft and tender part of him, deep inside, that is actually just shit.
Besides, all soylentils have been exposed to far more details of a wasted upper lower class life than anyone should have to be. Runaway tends to only know how to talk about hisself, takes after the Donald that way.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 07 2020, @12:57PM
Apparently, you also only know how to talk about Runaway. Sad.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 04 2020, @07:14AM (8 children)
You're SUCH a genius, 'Zumi. Let me explain some very simple facts of life for you:
I have multiple machines in my home. I log in to sites from multiple seats. In some cases, such as IRC, logging in from multiple seats will get you kicked. It's called "ghosting", and IRC doesn't like it one bit. So, Runaway is logged in from what we might call the "Kitchen computer" and "nutherguy" is logged in from the server machine. There has been zero effort made to keep those facts secret. In fact, if you check with Bytram and other denizens of #folding - oh, hell, no need to even ask any of them. Look at the logs for #folding.
That 92nd percentile IQ that you once bragged about is just high enough to make you dangerous - to yourself.
Disclosure? Yeah, I'm all for full disclosure - when are you going to "come out" and tell us all about your inadequacies? In view of the fact that you constantly attack so many of your fellow Soylentils, you must have a mountain of inadequacies.
Protip: constantly trying to pull your betters down doesn't raise you up any at all.
Now, you can go into detective mode, figuring out all the OTHER names I may have ever used here on Soylent. Have fun!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 04 2020, @07:35AM
Tom? That you? Or, Paul? Asking for a friend, who is doing PI work. Something about child support from a first marriage.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 04 2020, @01:18PM (6 children)
What makes you think I don't know already? :) LOL, and you think of yourself as my "better?" Good grief. Time to start on the Donepezil, old man.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday May 04 2020, @04:19PM (4 children)
The fact that you were still posting in this thread.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 07 2020, @12:28PM (3 children)
Non-sequitur as usual :) Mr. Hallow, I'm something like an iceberg, in that what you see is a small fraction of what's really going on below the surface. Just keep that in mind.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 07 2020, @12:49PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 08 2020, @12:32AM (1 child)
...might wanna check that analogy a little ;) What usually happens when an iceberg hits a ship? Hint: the iceberg is usually not getting the short end of that exchange. I'd flip the script and ask you why you insist on constantly running your flimsy paper boats into me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday May 08 2020, @04:13AM
"Usually".
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday May 04 2020, @04:48PM
As I have alluded before, you cream in your jeans over some of my posts, when they don't have my nick on them. The best for instance was the one time I addressed you as "Hazuki" instead of "'Zumi" you were like, "Oh god, you know my FIRST name, everyone thinks 'Zumi is my first name, oh, I love you, and if I were interested in babbies I would have your babbie!"
FFS girl, don't come to a battle of the wits unarmed, alright? Or, if you insist, just fight with the mental midgets.
Now I'm kinda curious - how many years have you been using IRC? Do you even remember the war scripts days? Do you have any idea why the server checks for open identd sockets? Isn't this shit all new to you? ROFLMAO - of course my two logins share the same masks. If I were interested in hiding my identity, it would be trivial to proxy one or the other, or to just tell the server whatever I wanted it to believe.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 05 2020, @12:08AM
Just going to say, for the record, that aristarchus has never resorted to alternative identities to get submissions accepted. That sounds like something only the lowest of lying scum would ever sink to.
Of course, me and Bob Dole have started referring to ourselves in third person, which is somewhat disturbing.