NASA Puts Jet Propulsion Lab on Blast over Psyche Mission Failures

Re:NASA Puts Jet Propulsion Lab on Blast over Psyche Mission... by iepathos on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:20PM (#33487757)

I think it comes from british slang where to blast someone means to exclaim annoyance at them. May have heard the exclamation like "oh blast it" when something goes wrong.

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Re:NASA Puts Jet Propulsion Lab on Blast over Psyche Mission... by sammalloy on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:30PM (#33487825)

Thanks. I’ve never heard this in the states.

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Re:NASA Puts Jet Propulsion Lab on Blast over Psyche Mission... by blamazon on Saturday November 05, 2022 @09:38PM (#33487910)

I've only ever heard it in the episode "I will put your kids on blast" of the podcast Harmontown:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/80z0w6/episode_...

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Re:NASA Puts Jet Propulsion Lab on Blast over Psyche Mission... by SoftTalker on Saturday November 05, 2022 @11:43PM (#33488697)

Don't watch Family Guy then? "Blast!" is one of Stewie's favorite expletives.

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