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In Texas, it’s easier to vote by mail if you’re in fucking space than if you’re in a black ZIP code.

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Uh oh, do they have to vote through Huston?

If so, there might have a … problem.

I’ll see myself out.

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Maybe Trump will promise to go get them. Maybe he will go up in space himself and we can just leave him up there

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Well, based on an earlier thread, it takes a LOT less fuel to launch someone out of the solar system than into the sun, so we could always do that

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Id be satisfied with a well built trebuchet. No need to waste too many resources.

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I reckon we could launch him about 300 meters

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It’s all about working as a team. 🥰

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Y’know thry always make a big media event about the polls opening at midnight in some podunk New England town that does a symbolic “first ballot of the nation”. Might be fun to make a similar scene for the ISS.

“The off-planet vote is breaking strongly for Harris despite RFK’s residence far outside Earth’s gravitational pull.”

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For Robert Kennedy, one assumes, since they had to learn the Earth is flat while rehearsing for the “mission.”

/s The earth is obviously a dodecahedron. Otherwise, water would reflect things like a funhouse mirror.

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This is the only way to legally vote by remote electronics in Texas. Must be registered in Harris County. And must be voting from outer space.

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That’s really interesting. I wonder how voting works (or doesn’t) for US researchers in remote parts of the world, like McMurdo station?

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