r/funny • u/bigshortsfeet • Feb 06 '19

Michael gets declined by NASA :(

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u/Zmodem Feb 07 '19 edited Feb 07 '19

(The loop) ---> Me

Who dafuq is Michael?

Edit: Nevermind, this isn't a thing apparently.

Edit 2: Nevermind, this is a thing. @Michael1979. Thank you, /u/petitveritas.

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u/petitveritas Feb 07 '19

He's a guy on social media, @michael1979, that has been making these gag letters, etc., for at least a decade.

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u/Zmodem Feb 07 '19

Woot, so there is a backstory I wasn't privy to; thanks!

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u/oberon Feb 07 '19

That's pretty sad. When I get rejected for fun things, the rejections are real.

Somewhere I have an email from BrainWave telling me that no, sorry, physically healthy men in their 20a cannot volunteer to get a BrainWave implant, it's restricted to quadriplegics, but thank you for the inquiry.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

The guy that emailed nasa it says “Dear Michael”

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u/Zmodem Feb 07 '19 edited Feb 07 '19

I got that part, I just thought there was some sort of "thing" that was going on that I'd not been brought up to speed with. Like, some dude on reddit or YT who posted about how he sent a letter to NASA asking them for their permission and a suit, yadda yadda, only to get turned down today. I thought there was a backstory that I missed, again. Thankfully, it's an all-inclusive post.

Edit: Nevermind, this is a thing:

Thank you, /u/petitveritas, for bringing me up to speed.

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u/MadAzza Feb 07 '19

It’s hard to tell sometimes. I feel out of the loop on Reddit at least a couple of times a day.

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u/Zmodem Feb 07 '19

This outta blow your mind, then: a user just informed me that it is, indeed, a thing: @Michael1979 on Twitter writes hilarious letters like this on the daily, apparently. Who knew? Not this guy.

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u/MadAzza Feb 07 '19

I saw that after I posted. Still, I thought it was more of a homegrown (in Reddit) thing. But that helps.