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2022-07-14 -Great Cultural Revolution
Usual suspects say space telescope is - wait for it - homophobic
[MSN] The excitement around unprecedented new images of far-off galaxies has reignited calls from some within the scientific and queer communities to rename the James Webb Space Telescope because of Webb’s alleged involvement in past anti-LGTBQ government policies in the mid-20th century.
You saw this coming, right? Eventually they come for everything.
Images from the telescope, a project three decades in the making, were released on Tuesday by NASA. The observatory, which launched into orbit in December 2021, is about the size of a tennis court and can take more detailed images from deeper in space than any equipment of its kind.

NASA has billed the mission as an "Apollo moment," with the potential to answer probing questions at the frontier of space discovery, including about life on other planets. But the agency has also faced criticism for naming its signature project after former NASA Administrator James Webb, who previously had served as undersecretary of state during the Truman administration, when the federal government systematically purged its ranks of LGBTQ employees.

In a statement to NBC News, a NASA spokesperson said Tuesday the agency’s historians have conducted an "exhaustive search through currently accessible archives on James Webb and his career," which has included speaking with experts who "previously researched this topic extensively."

"NASA found no evidence at this point that warrants changing the name of the telescope," the statement said. "They are compiling their information now into an update the agency will share."

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, an assistant professor of physics at the University of New Hampshire and one of the authors of the Scientific American editorial, called this week’s release of the telescope’s images "bittersweet."

"I’m so excited for the new images and so angry at NASA HQ," she wrote on Twitter on Monday. "NASA leadership has stubbornly refused to acknowledge that what is now public info about (Webb’s) legacy means he does not merit having a Great Observatory named after him."
Scientific American rolled left when global warming became the hot new thing — or maybe before, but that’s when I noticed it. This is just more of the same.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 Want to bet that "Chanda" has no actual scientific credentials, is a journalism school graduate, and has wealthy parents well-connected with Democrat politics?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-14 00:05||   2022-07-14 00:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Hey, it's a telescope.
It looks like a big p3nis.
Posted by Snoluper Fillmore9684 2022-07-14 00:17||   2022-07-14 00:17|| Front Page Top

#3 From Wikipedia:

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an American theoretical cosmologist, and is both an assistant professor of physics and astronomy and a core faculty member in women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. From 2016 to 2018, she was the principal investigator on a Foundational Questions Institute (FQXI) grant titled "Epistemological Schemata of Astro | Physics: A Reconstruction of Observers."

One of those brilliant idiots.
Posted by trailing wife 2022-07-14 00:27||   2022-07-14 00:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Doesn't the Webb telescope have this giant penis-shaped thingy as it's main sensor array? How, then, can it be 'homophobic'?

It doesn't, really, but work with me here...

Oh - and this Chandra Hyphenated-Name broad almost makes me ashamed to be a UNH-Durham alumnus. Like Michael Bolton said in 'Office Space' - "Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks!"

Okay - one has nothing to do with the other - I just think that's a great movie line. And I got into UNH by the skin of my teeth; at least I didn't have to blow anyone Kamala style like Ms. Hyphenated-Name probably did. I have a story about one of my classmates f'n a professor to get a better grade than I did (and the rest of the people in our group) in an Organizational Behaviour class. She wasn't happy about it when I called her on it -guilty as charged. I am the law!
Posted by Raj 2022-07-14 00:34||   2022-07-14 00:34|| Front Page Top

#5 I'm wondering if this sort of thing has become the new peer appeasement. Y'know when you have to please everybody around and above you for them to let them do your thing in peace? She looks like an intelligent gal otherwi... oh wait!
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-14 01:50||   2022-07-14 01:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Search for

'Epistemological schemata of Astrophysics'

Maybe scientists are realising the only way to get grants or anything out of anyone is to strike their hoohoos. And then they become corrupt, forgetting their real calling, become grifters. Shame. The gal can't be half-bad to've gotten this far. Can she? I mean it's not politics that you can blow your way in.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-14 01:54||   2022-07-14 01:54|| Front Page Top

#7 *stroke. To stroke their hoohoos... stupid Android keypad.
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-14 01:55||   2022-07-14 01:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Wow, so she somehow got actual degrees. But notice she spends most of her time on grievance studies. She's like the "engineering education" drones who are trying to woke engineering schools.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2022-07-14 07:50||   2022-07-14 07:50|| Front Page Top

#9 She is a perfect example of why the government shouldn't pay for people's degrees.
Posted by DarthVader 2022-07-14 09:31||   2022-07-14 09:31|| Front Page Top

#10 
So the usual weirdo's and idiot suspects say a space telescope is now a homophobic symbol.

Then the usual MSM, once known as a "professional" media / press members see click-bait revenue therefore nothing wrong with it. So they publish the asinine ()o() comments?


Given the above summation, it is more likely that there is more Factual Honesty in Blog comments than the MSM.
Posted by NN2N1 2022-07-14 09:54||   2022-07-14 09:54|| Front Page Top

#11 Reprobate minds abound.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-07-14 10:01||   2022-07-14 10:01|| Front Page Top

#12 Who needs ink blots? We have a new Rorschach test for credentialed individuals. What do you see here?
Posted by Procopius2k 2022-07-14 10:17||   2022-07-14 10:17|| Front Page Top

#13 I wonder how many rocks they had to turn over to find this.
I know some astrophysicists and astronomers, and I don't think they'd care if it was named Scopey McScopeFace; they want to see what it finds.
Make a stink and some of them will climb aboard the grievance wagon, but it isn't their first reaction.
Posted by James  2022-07-14 10:41|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com  2022-07-14 10:41|| Front Page Top

#14 If there was nothing, they would have to make it up.

If it is in the news and positive, it simply must be hit. Its the Moral Battlefield donchyaknow?

SA has been kookoo since at least 2000 when they made the last mag I ever bought, something like the legacy of humans before we all die of global warming would be to clone and repopulate Ice Age animals, because Ice Age is more Science! than Pleistocene.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-14 10:49||   2022-07-14 10:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Remember: Everything since the end of slavery is still tainted as far as leftists are concerned. Now, everything not invented by ghey is illegitimate too.

From the leftist perspective.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 10:55||   2022-07-14 10:55|| Front Page Top

#16 I would not buy a single issue of any print magazine, let alone a subscription. They are all co-opted and I feel no need to subsidize their leftist crap.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 10:57||   2022-07-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

#17 So it must be racist too, right?
Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-07-14 11:41||   2022-07-14 11:41|| Front Page Top

#18 It involved admitting 2+2=4. Preeminently rayciss...
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 11:47||   2022-07-14 11:47|| Front Page Top

#19 Would she be happy if we changed the name to the Chanda Prescod-Weinstein space telescope?

I doubt it.
Posted by Bobby 2022-07-14 13:01||   2022-07-14 13:01|| Front Page Top

#20 Near future headline: "$10 billion space telescope reduced to useless junk after software update to give it more pronouns fails."
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 13:11||   2022-07-14 13:11|| Front Page Top

#21 Wasn't it an install of a real-time AI predication algorithm designed to predict the next wrongthink trend and therefore stay ahead of the five minute hate which activated Skynet's desire to nuke human culture?
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-14 13:42||   2022-07-14 13:42|| Front Page Top

#22 If JWST was armed, it would be too far away to hurt anyone. So, the analogy is thin.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 13:44||   2022-07-14 13:44|| Front Page Top

#23 Oh. OK. Says right here in comic book issue #03 that Skynet is everywhere.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-14 13:54||   2022-07-14 13:54|| Front Page Top

#24 comic book issue #03

A major problem with how the world goes today.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 13:58||   2022-07-14 13:58|| Front Page Top

#25 Go to Chris Shields' fan site, swksvolFF. You will find it more entertaining than all the comics, na vels and flicks combined. 🤖
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-14 14:14||   2022-07-14 14:14|| Front Page Top

#26 Besides if Skynet were so, it would be the ultimate observational platform, not a bomb dropper, not its job. Unless of course it is so far-sighted it would be able to see Earth.

Skynet, WOPR, even Doomsday Device didn't have to have to be in physical presence to activate weapon systems. Did HAL actually have a disk delivered to the pod bay doors, or did it use the communication systems. That isn't just Sci-Fi Canon, I get real time updates at work what is being shopped for at home and there is no formal arrangement for that to happen.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-14 14:14||   2022-07-14 14:14|| Front Page Top

#27 *novels.

Stupid android keypad!
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-14 14:15||   2022-07-14 14:15|| Front Page Top

#28 We will have artificial stupidity long before AI gets off the ground. It isn't even a contest.
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 14:22||   2022-07-14 14:22|| Front Page Top

#29 Dron, that looks like fun. I'll find the time.
Posted by swksvolFF 2022-07-14 14:24||   2022-07-14 14:24|| Front Page Top

#30 ^ artificial stupidity

This is true. People will even be forced by governments to shout into their phones in emergencies and prob'ly get nowhere.

"No, you stupid piece of shit! The woman trying to kill me has a gun and her fuckin' name is Janie! Why would I wanna listen to a song right now? What?! Helloo?!"
Posted by Dron66046 2022-07-14 14:28||   2022-07-14 14:28|| Front Page Top

#31 
Posted by M. Murcek 2022-07-14 14:30||   2022-07-14 14:30|| Front Page Top

#32 Stupid android keypad!
Posted by Dron66046

Might help if you use your fingers to type istead of pawing at it. 'Eh

(Whistling and walk away at a rapid pace!)

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-07-14 21:35||   2022-07-14 21:35|| Front Page Top

#33 It is homophobic! The telescope refuse to take pictures of "black holes".
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-07-14 21:36||   2022-07-14 21:36|| Front Page Top

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