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NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

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Re: NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

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Post by Gooblebrai »

normalaccess wrote: post #16
iancmceachern wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im the opposite, I think things like this are the most important things they can be doing. Empowering the next generation of innovators, empowering people. People are who do those experiments...

Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves. If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets. If you do [THING] get good at doing [THING] and you will attract people that also want to do [THING].

Is not as rigid as you picture it.

Comics and books inspire people to get traits and achieve things like the characters from the stories. As an example: Elon, because of reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation and other sci-fi books, got inspired to do space stuff. Not to become a sci-fi writer (although that could have happened as well)

Many scientists and engineers have been inspired this way when they were kids.

Re: NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

normalaccess wrote: post #16
iancmceachern wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im the opposite, I think things like this are the most important things they can be doing. Empowering the next generation of innovators, empowering people. People are who do those experiments...

Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves. If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets. If you do [THING] get good at doing [THING] and you will attract people that also want to do [THING].

> If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets

This reminds me of founders with a legitimately cool product being floored by their lack of sales and marketing efforts translating into a lack of sales.

Nothing sells itself. If we want astronauts, we need to keep the astronaut brand in schools. Art is a proven way to do this.

Re: NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

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Post by parl_match »

4887d30omd8 wrote: post #19
trothamel wrote: post #5

Women have been astronauts for years. There are two in the International Space Station right now.

"In 2023, numbers released by UNOOSA showed that only 11 percent of the world's astronauts are women"

A large part of that is that there aren't a lot of astronauts, and those who were selected for a substantial part of the space program had external forces selecting for men.

A big requirement was someone who was an experienced pilot, likely from the military, with a proven track record of unusual planes. Women were explicitly prevented from that on-ramp. It wasn't until the 80s, 20+ years into the program, that the first truly civilian (no military experience) astronaut was selected.

Maybe women are predisposed to qualities that make them less likely to be selected as astronauts? I don't think that's true, but even if it was... the selection size of astronauts to inspect from is simply too small to come to any good conclusion.

Re: NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

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Post by keeda »

normalaccess wrote: post #20
4887d30omd8 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"In 2023, numbers released by UNOOSA showed that only 11 percent of the world's astronauts are women"

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> Social Justice has yet to put a man on the moon.

Here's another way to look at it: For most of history a significant portion -- probably the vast majority -- of the human population has been relegated to economically low-level labor for numerous reasons. Unfortunately, this has disproportionately affected specific groups of people, often through some form of social oppression, and has continued even as social norms have changed and global productivity and wealth have exploded.

One upshot is that this has kept those people from contributing to global economic and scientific progress unless they could break out of the social strata they were born into. Hence, beyond fairness, "social justice" is also a way to increase the pool of people who can contribute.

And in that sense, yes, social justice has absolutely helped put a man on the moon. Case in point: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/hidden-figures/

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Post by heavymetalpoizn »

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Re: NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

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Post by datavirtue »

normalaccess wrote: post #16
iancmceachern wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im the opposite, I think things like this are the most important things they can be doing. Empowering the next generation of innovators, empowering people. People are who do those experiments...

Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves. If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets. If you do [THING] get good at doing [THING] and you will attract people that also want to do [THING].

Cool rockets? I have always thought that rockets were rediculous. JWST, on the other hand, brought me to tears.

Re: NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

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Post by iancmceachern »

normalaccess wrote: post #16
iancmceachern wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Im the opposite, I think things like this are the most important things they can be doing. Empowering the next generation of innovators, empowering people. People are who do those experiments...

Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves. If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets. If you do [THING] get good at doing [THING] and you will attract people that also want to do [THING].

One of my introductions to engineering was watching MacGyver as a kid.

Now watching it, knowing what I do, it's comical. But it had a big part in getting me interested and in the door.

It's the with any media or entertainment. You can't take kids to space, but you can make a book, movie or comic book where they can dream about doing it when they grow up.

Put another way, it's better that kids read this comic book and not one that does nothing to develop their futures, right?

Re: NASA Deletes Comic Book About How Women Can Be Astronauts

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Post by iancmceachern »

datavirtue wrote: post #27
normalaccess wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves. If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets. If you do [THING] get good at doing [THING] and you will attract people that also want to do [THING].

Cool rockets? I have always thought that rockets were rediculous. JWST, on the other hand, brought me to tears.

How did we get JWST up there? A rocket perhaps?
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