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Artemis II crew splashes down in Pacific Ocean after historic mission 89%
4/11/2026, 12:24:07 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Optimism Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Overconfidence Bias as the most egregious example at 34.3% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 237 faulty-reasoning hits from 166 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.5% and a BS Rank of 89% (1,964 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 88.30% of the video peer group.
Those three parachutes, of course, the end of that sequence and certainly the ones that are doing most of the work in trying to slow this capsule slow integrity down to about 20 miles per hour.
There's the splashdown.
>> Splashdown confirmed.
Splashdown confirmed.
Copy splashdown.
Waiting on VLDR.
Splashdown confirmed at 7:07 p.m. Central Time, 5:07 p.m. Pacific Time.
Which, by the way, is exactly when NASA said it would happen.
7 minutes past the hour.
>> chapter of the exploration of our celestial neighbor is complete.
Integrity's astronauts back on Earth.
Back on Earth.
In the Pacific, the divers will get there.
They will look at the outside of Integrity to make sure
And the landing and support officer reports the vehicle is stable one.
>> Stable.
There you go.
>> will be deploying the crew module uprighting system to maintain that orientation.
A perfect bull's-eye splashdown for Integrity and its four astronauts.
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