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DNSB · 02-20-2021, 04:25 PM

Wait for Artemis III. At which point we will likely be tired of listening to complaints that the first humans on the moon since 1972 were insufficiently culturally, racially and/or sexually diverse.

See NASA Artemis.

Personally, I would never have believed it would take 52 years from Apollo 17 to Artemis III.

issybird · 02-20-2021, 05:57 PM

The goalposts have been moved. The point was merely that since they were all men, one might as well call them such. However, duly noted that “being tired” of “complaints” about the hegemony of white men is sufficient defense of such, instead of a wrong that needs to be righted.

DNSB · 02-20-2021, 06:31 PM

You do know that the Artemis III mission is currently supposed to have two crew members for the lunar landing module with one each of female and male?

There have been multiple whinges already that there is no information on the racial, cultural, sexual orientation, etc. criteria for choosing those two crew members, that NASA does not have an affirmative action plan for recruiting astronauts who are non-Caucasian, non-heterosexual, non-Christian, non-any_crap_you_can_think_of.

From what I've read, some of issues that have been whinged about are that none of the 18 members of the Artemis team have come out of the closet, too many of them have military backgrounds, that having only 6 out of 18 "persons of colour" shows NASA is practising systemic discrimination, etc. You name it, someone is kvetching about it.

I am willing to wait until NASA announces the crew for Artemis III before starting to whine about their selection criteria.

issybird · 02-20-2021, 06:36 PM

That’s a question.

DNSB · 02-20-2021, 06:39 PM

Yawn. A question is often the best answer.

issybird · 02-20-2021, 07:16 PM

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

poohbear_nc · 02-20-2021, 07:23 PM

Truth is in the eye of the beholder

DNSB · 02-20-2021, 08:05 PM

No one ever changes with experience over time. Attitudes are cast in concrete. Fill in any other cliché about invariance that comes to mind.

Elektron · 02-20-2021, 09:19 PM

Answers can be questions.

pdurrant · 02-21-2021, 07:19 AM

There must be a reason there's an answer everything thread and a question everything thread.

Elektron · 02-21-2021, 10:08 AM

That doesn't mean that answers are limited to statements with periods or exclamation marks. Right?

drjd · 02-21-2021, 11:21 AM

The question does not arise.

pdurrant · 02-21-2021, 05:04 PM

IMO, rhetorical questions are still questions.

Elektron · 02-21-2021, 06:06 PM

That doesn't mean that questions can't be answers.

DNSB · 02-21-2021, 08:00 PM

Memento mori are something that we desperately need in our lives.

02-20-2021, 06:31 PM	#6648
DNSB Bibliophagist Posts: 47,213 Karma: 169936284 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Sage, Libra Colour, Lenovo M8 FHD, Paperwhite 4, Tolino epos	You do know that the Artemis III mission is currently supposed to have two crew members for the lunar landing module with one each of female and male? There have been multiple whinges already that there is no information on the racial, cultural, sexual orientation, etc. criteria for choosing those two crew members, that NASA does not have an affirmative action plan for recruiting astronauts who are non-Caucasian, non-heterosexual, non-Christian, non-any_crap_you_can_think_of. From what I've read, some of issues that have been whinged about are that none of the 18 members of the Artemis team have come out of the closet, too many of them have military backgrounds, that having only 6 out of 18 "persons of colour" shows NASA is practising systemic discrimination, etc. You name it, someone is kvetching about it. I am willing to wait until NASA announces the crew for Artemis III before starting to whine about their selection criteria. Last edited by DNSB; 02-21-2021 at 06:45 AM.

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