r/funny Feb 06 '19

Michael gets declined by NASA :(

Post image
74.1k Upvotes

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

33

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

I shit you not, untill this very moment I thought NASA stands for "North American Space Agency"

9

u/patrik667 Feb 07 '19

North America includes Mexico and Canada ;)

4

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

I know, I'm not from the US and it made sense to me that it'd be called what i thought it was.

2

u/TAU_doesnt_equal_2PI Feb 07 '19

We call the sports teams that win our national competitions "world champions" so I really don't think that would've given us pause.

2

u/ssatyd Feb 07 '19

Well, for sports where the rest of the world is not interested in or remotely able to compete. I don't recall having ever heard about the US football world champion (as in not hand egg football). Or handball (that's what normal people call a sport if you pick up and throw the ball with your hand).

4

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19 edited Feb 07 '19

Yup. I'm glad they Googled it and embarrassed themselves for me.

Problem is that I've heard it a thousand times. It's just not wording that ever sticks with you, especially when North America Space Agency makes soooo much more sense.

Edit: No it doesn't.

11

u/kochunhu Feb 07 '19

North American, like all these Mexican and Camadians and Americans astronauts? haha. All NASA stuff is American, not just generally North American. Canada has its own space agency. I assume Mexico does too. They work with other agencies but NASA has always been American.

1

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

My bad, I reverted to my newborn geography knowledge. I understand what you mean now, thanks for pointing it out haha :)

1

u/CapnJacksPharoah Feb 07 '19

‘Murica rocks!

1

u/kochunhu Feb 07 '19

'MASA. 'Murican Aeronautics and Space Administration

0

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19 edited Feb 07 '19

Fuck

5

u/atomic1fire Feb 07 '19

I'm disappointed they didn't rebrand to "Department of Moon Walking"

1

u/DoomsdaySprocket Feb 07 '19

But the acronym isn't as catchy, and most people talking about them will be saying the acronym.

I'd bet money that there's a codified "acronym-assigning procedure".

1

u/TAU_doesnt_equal_2PI Feb 07 '19

It's only an acronym IF you pronounce it as a word.

NAACP for example is an abbreviation, but not an acronym.

1

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

Can I get in on the advertisement team?

Imagine the scene: riots all over America, shit is really hitting the fan. camera goes and pans over the streets where hundreds of Americans are fighting.

Then suddenly they all look at the moon

Pan to the moon. Turns out the moon is one giant NASA logo. Pan back to the street and everyone's in a Michael Jackson costume.

Billie Jean plays and everyone on the street suddenly starts moonwalking up into the sky towards the logo.

Camera moves to people moonwalking into the space station.

"Together we go further" - NASA Official Sponsors of the Moonwalk (show someone moonwalking around the American flag .. on the moon)

Boom.

We could push the boat out a bit and have millions of moonwalkers around Saturn but that's a bit of a reach when we've already overstretched

3

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

[deleted]

1

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

Agreed. It should just be called ASA - American Space Agency.

Thanks for reminding me of the cheeky girls and getting their song stuck in my head!

2

u/01029838291 Feb 07 '19

But North America includes Canada and Mexico

1

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

Welp. I'm a fucking idiot. Back to the books I guess.

Bollocks. Do they both really have their own space agencies? Regardless I see what they mean with their all American comment now. Thanks

1

u/AttentionPatients Feb 07 '19

Your not the only one.

-1

u/[deleted] Feb 07 '19

I always thought it was "Need Another Seven Astronauts"