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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 hulitu »

Gooblebrai wrote: post #21
normalaccess wrote: post #16

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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.

> Comics and books inspire people to get traits and achieve things like the characters from the stories.

Oh, so that's why crime stories are so popular. /s

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

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Post by hulitu »

chneu wrote: post #31
normalaccess wrote: post #16

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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].

This is deeply flawed thinking. It also doesn't really make sense in the real world. How does anyone hear about the thing you're doing or making? How do people figure out how to get involved? How do you attract different people(women, POC, etc) to your thing if they aren't already represented? People don't just magically know about something that's interesting to them. They have to discover it. Tons of very influenti…

> How does anyone hear about the thing you're doing or making?

A long time ago there was NASA television and jpl.nasa.gov.

They even had an ftp site with lots of cool pictures.

Today, i don't know, i got married and don't have time for this anymore.

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

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Post by banqjls »

IAmBroom wrote: post #38
banqjls wrote: post #24

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The links in that X/Twitter post go nowhere. And there's no proof a crime was even committed; just alleged. In fact: "The claims were later found to be false, and McClain was cleared." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_McClain You've slandered a Bronze-Star decorated astronaut, who was so outstanding she was the youngest in her class.

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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

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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].

So we should send schoolchildren up in rockets?

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

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Post by datavirtue »

iancmceachern wrote: post #29
datavirtue wrote: post #27

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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?

Yep.

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

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Post by normalaccess »

IAmBroom wrote: post #35
normalaccess wrote: post #17

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Cool jobs get the gender treatment. Ain't no women begging to work on an oil derrick or be a plumber.

Well, that's certainly an opinion.

Indeed! But more than that it's accurate.
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