"This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request," a directive "per NASA HQ direction" stated.
  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you also cared about the rights of indigenous people.

  • zapzap@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    What happened to indigenous people and women? I swear I saw one just an hour ago so it seems like they still exist. Maybe not?

  • TurboHarbinger@feddit.clEnglish
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    1 month ago

    ITT: People who doesn’t read the article. These science institutions shouldn’t be used for fucking politics.

    I wonder if something from the list published in this article has any relation to science or space. Yeah sure, let’s go with “DEI and other Inclusivity programs are NECESSARY for space survival”. I wonder what’s the objective of NASA.

    Lol don’t worry, this Astronaut knows pronouns. /s

  • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This is definitely the most important thing for the country and for human space exploration as a whole.

    /s

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 month ago

      With internet archive head quarters being in the US what would happen if the administration went after them? Would people from other countries be able to keep the project going?

      • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        We need to distribute all that data, for the sake of history in the future. Data hoarding and torrenting is a service to humanity.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Not just data but in important scientific research too. The republicans want to drive the US back to the stone age, because that’s when they were last relevant.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    1 month ago

    I am sure all of them have the skills set and accounts to spend all day for this…

    Headline is hyperbolic

  • Wren@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Their cowardice is palpable. If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.

    In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government, I’d imagine something like this would be worthy of a grant or two.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.

      You’re significantly underestimating how many Chud engineers NASA employs. The agency that was founded by Nazis refugees has always had a shit history on race politics, cinema hagiographies produced decades later notwithstanding.

      In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government

      One of the biggest jokes of the US depiction of the Space Race was how many times we got our asses drubbed by Russians with less money, manpower, and educational resources, simply because our administration was so cartoonishly incompetent. We have an obscenely wealthy federal government that can afford to fuck up on the scale of trillions of dollars and still come out ahead.

      • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Isn’t there an entire movie about racism in NASA that’s basically just a feel good story for white people?

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Hidden Figures. More or less “The Help” for NASA dweebs.

          It concedes that black women were instrumental in developing and executing a successful space race, but gets really cagey around questions like “Why did NASA only have a White Men’s Restroom to begin with?”, “What caused us to omit people like this in films like Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff?”, and “How come the women who pioneered implementation of Fortran at NASA weren’t able to pivot into senior administrative roles, private contracting firms, or academic positions like their male peers?”