Many moons ago, so to speak, I was a Fortran programmer on the Pioneer Venus project. Here’s a recent tweet from my former employer:
There’s “space for everyone” and “different perspectives” are valuable. But on the other hand, there is no space for perspectives from taxpayers who fund the agency.
Also, why is it just “LGBTQI+”? Why not 2SLGBTQQIA+?
Finally, if the future of the galaxy is female, according to Science and the baseball cap below, why does NASA hire anyone who identifies as of the 73 other genders recognized by Science? Why is “diversity” better than betting on the winning gender?
Related:
- Inflation chronicles: NYT says Pioneer Venus cost $230 million for both robots flung on separate rockets to the inner solar system… about the same as the cost of two nice houses in Palm Beach, Florida today (a teardown for $110 million)
- “NASA Commits To Planting Pride Flag On The Moon By 2030” (Babylon Bee):
Remember that time when Obama told NASA their foremost mission wasn’t space exploration, but rather to “engage much more with dominantly muzlim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering” ?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/7875584/Barack-Obama-Nasa-must-try-to-make-Muslims-feel-good.html
The fascist Rainbow movement uses the same language everywhere. “Personal attack” is widely used power talk for “Shut up and obey!”
Is NASA still producing spacecraft or are they produced by uninspiring 50-year-old white males employed by heretic and deplorable Musk?
At first I did not realize that the Babylon Bee story was satire, it seemed quite realistic. How about Brandon making a speech that paraphrases Kennedy’s speech writer?
The U.S. should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of constructing a bathhouse on the Moon and keep it operating safely.
All the “teaching” and the mandatory training that we have to take and pass (assuming you work for the government of a Big company) about DEI is creating Division, Exclusion, and Infriction. This is the true meaning of “DEI”.
I Just completed my annual mandatory 6-hours of on-line diversity training ordered by my employer’s HR department. I wonder if HR staff are required to undergo the same training?
All this talking about one’s sexual preferences is getting overdrawn, why isn’t the public exhausted with it? Why are we so concerned about an interaction that takes up very small portion of one’s life, especially as one gets older. You take this thing called sex, which you do just what, 2-3 times a week when your in your prime years, and then amplify it into something so important for everyone to see. It’s like telling everyone, hey I love to eat yogurt for breakfast, and everyone needs to know that and accept that, especially those people who just eat toasted bread everyday and can’t imagine anyone eating anything else.
As a long time loyal reader, I must say I am getting tired of this constant nit picking about how Pride Month is being observed, here the complaint seems to be that NASA did not leave open for public comment long enough its Pride plans. Why not focus instead on some of the contributions trans people have made to this great nation of ours? We all know about that great crime fighter J. Edgar Hoover, who after a hard day tracking down communists and other subversives liked to slip into something frilly while watching TV with Clyde. But why not mention Martha, formerly Martin, Washington? Betsy, nee Bernie, Ross? And Adele, who would really name their kid Adlai, Stevenson? It is your blog, but might I suggest that some uplifting positive stories might increase readership?
Hoover is the role model for the 2SLGBTQQIA+ Stasi. I’ve met many mini-Hoovers at work who do nothing but building dossiers on heterosexual male high performers in order to cancel them.
It’s kind of amusing that the left once hated a gay transvestite so very intensely. Cancellation when?
Pretty sure they’ll have to rename the moon because it’s racist.
I believe you are wrong – Moon has a special place in hearts of everybody celebrating Pride – e.g. the word “mooning” describes the most common activity of participant of Pride events!
One of the best movies showing the diversity of NASA is Hidden Figures https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4846340/
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2020/12/04/immigrant-dads-tutorial-on-the-real-hidden-figures-in-hidden-figures/ covers that. “the real hidden figures were 1600 Nazi scientists,” is what an immigrant friend told some high school kids.
philg, in addition I read a thread where one of NASA engineers said that at least 40% person of those working on Apollo (or Space Shuttle? ) program self-identified as Jews based on informal straw poll the engineers themselves undertook. Can not vouch for reliability of the information, but found following https://taskandpurpose.com/history/jewish-nazi-scientists-nasa/ I had met one of last German rocket/aviation scientists that worked in America, he respected hard work and intelligence including proselyting airspace religion to all including Jews but seemed that he remained an antisemitic nazi to his core, ready to pounce at (fake, old street smarts) demonstration of weakness
Anon: I seriously doubt that Jews were 40% of NASA engineers! The Big Idea guy wasn’t Jewish according to the book described in https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2022/05/28/audibles-tale-of-an-engineering-hero-the-man-who-knew-the-way-to-the-moon/
the Big Guy wasn’t Jewish ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxime_Faget ).
Haters complained about “Jewish science” not “Jewish engineering”. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-2-pro-nazi-nobelists-attacked-einstein-s-jewish-science-excerpt1/
philg, I never claimed that Faget was Jewish, I just tell you what I read by an engineer who worked on the program. By the way , regarding the linked article, I too have heard from older generation that it used to be hard for Jews to find employment in engineering in the USA, even though I can not say the same about 1980th and after generations. World-wide Jews were considered good engineers. Examples: Marcel Bloch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Dassault Mikhail Gurevich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Gurevich_(aircraft_designer) Semen Lavochkin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Lavochkin . Nowadays English version of biography hides Jewish heritage, changes his father’s name to Alexey from Alter and his father’s profession to teacher from melamed https://www.yadvashem.org/research/research-projects/soldiers/semion-lavochkin.html There were and are many others and I do not want to fill up space with pointless listings here. My point that why define yourself by notions of you arch-enemy, the enemy which also suffered great due to its erroneous believes?
Anon: I understood that you were quoting someone else. I am expressing skepticism regarding that engineer’s statement. Maybe he/she/ze/they was in a rare Jewish corner of some NASA facility. I fear that this may fall into the category of Jewish over-claiming, of which Israeli over-claiming is a subcategory. People credit Israeli science and engineering with all kinds of fundamental contributions, but I don’t think anyone in Israel has ever had even 1/100th the impact of Katherine Clerk Maxwell and her equations. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe NASA was a Jewish conspiracy! NASA’s manned space program was notorious for claiming credit for things that they didn’t invent or significantly advance (oftentimes things that the U.S. military had done with contractors).
I could believe that Goddard at one time might have seemed like it was 40% Jewish engineers, especially the day after Christmas.