Deme

Quality shitpost

I think the joke here is exactly that some of the words are the worst for this purpose.

Apologies, I’m not too well versed in the differences between imperial and US customary units. (I try my best to stay away from both)

*Imperial

Empiricism is a different thing entirely

My understanding of the term is that it describes leftists who have grown disillusioned with the methods of the left (primarily society level stuff like the proletarian revolution), instead focusing on the more local level through stealing and insurrection etc…

Basically leftists but who no longer hold out hope for the wider society.

I think the point is that they aren’t assuming the planet in question is tectonically activie, as that’s one of the unlikely steps needed for life as we know it.

Televangelists believe in nothing but money

Stars are dim. Earth and the Moon are bright. If you exposed the shot such that stars would be visible, the Earth and the Moon would be horrendously overexposed.

If you look at this one of the moonlit nightside of the Earth they took on the way out, you can see stars. The website has EXIF-data on the bottom with more info on the exposure.