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2021-02-18 -PC Follies

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#1 Do psychiatric disabilities count?

Posted by Mercutio 2021-02-18 07:23|| 2021-02-18 07:23|| Front Page Top

#2 This ABCnews article explains the brazen new idea best.

As does this excerpt:

Associate Professor of Space Studies at Flinders University Alice Gorman said the agency was sending a powerful message with the recruitment drive, but that more needed to be done.

"Just knowing that it could be a woman [or] an Indigenous person ... taking those first footsteps on another planet, that has got to be a solar system breaking moment," she said.

"It's a bit of a myth that the white male body is the best adapted to space," she said.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-02-18 08:40|| 2021-02-18 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Who would be an "indiginous person" in Europe?

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2021-02-18 08:43|| 2021-02-18 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Leprechauns?

Posted by jpal 2021-02-18 08:54|| 2021-02-18 08:54|| Front Page Top

Posted by Jack Jereting3608 2021-02-18 08:56|| 2021-02-18 08:56|| Front Page Top

#6 She meant vertiginous

Posted by Beldar Ebbutle9706 2021-02-18 09:04|| 2021-02-18 09:04|| Front Page Top

Posted by Jack Jereting3608 2021-02-18 09:09|| 2021-02-18 09:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Limerick, please?

Posted by Hupeaper the Unfortunately Complexioned8456 2021-02-18 10:52|| 2021-02-18 10:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Remember the blind guy who sued to become a surgeon?

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-18 14:18|| 2021-02-18 14:18|| Front Page Top

#10 Great. Like I would want a disabled dude up there if I needed help with a problem. I'd jettison his ass like Mini Me.

Posted by Clem 2021-02-18 14:42|| 2021-02-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

#11 Opportunity Cost is thousands of Euros/kg and they want the impaired choice?

Posted by magpie 2021-02-18 15:21|| 2021-02-18 15:21|| Front Page Top

#12 seriously, it amazes me at the utter stupidity in ppl these days.

Posted by Chris 2021-02-18 15:49|| 2021-02-18 15:49|| Front Page Top

#13 i could see someone like a double leg amputee actually being a little better at adapting and various other things. the spacesuit would certainly be cheaper.

but as usual, they are doing this ass backwards and are just looking for the cachet of 'first!'

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2021-02-18 16:57|| 2021-02-18 16:57|| Front Page Top

#14 The Old Irish Space Program

A monk of Lough Bofin grew sullen
Who craved the Gae Bulg of Cuchullain,
And leapt on him, sure,
But it blew premature,
And they flew all the way to Helvellyn.

Posted by Ho Chi Shusogum5632 2021-02-18 17:46|| 2021-02-18 17:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Roar boosters, "Develop more thrust
To lift the butt, belly, or bust
Of spacepersons of size!
O obesetronauts, rise!
Thunder, thighs, to the skies... maybe... just."

Posted by Ho Chi Shusogum5632 2021-02-18 18:19|| 2021-02-18 18:19|| Front Page Top

#16 Legs are just extra weight to boost into orbit. They could save $500K per astronaut. That's not chicken feed.

Posted by KBK 2021-02-18 18:31|| 2021-02-18 18:31|| Front Page Top