The Autonomous Space Agency Network was launching a weather balloon any way, so they came up with an imaginative way to troll der Gropenfuhrer’s anti-science rhetoric, sending the world’s first near space (90,000 ft.) protest sign aloft with it.
The message on the sign was from a quote by late Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon.
“From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
The video is pretty amazing:
Meanwhile, Back on Earth, the National Park Service joined in on the Fun: