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Forget equipment. The only thing that survives that mode of transportation is soup.

valuearb 6y ago
Don’t be silly. Nuclear pulse rocketry is very well understood from an engineering perspective, the forces it generates are easily managed, and the radiation it produces easily shielded for. Without a doubt it’s by far the most practical candidate for sending manned expeditions to the nearby stars.
- ewindal 6y ago
  Clearly beign silly isn’t appreciated.
  - nkrisc 6y ago
    With only text to go on, your joke has to be pretty good to not be mistaken for an, shall we say, "uninformed" comment.
    - ewindal 6y ago
      I was replying to a comment whose parent said anything sent would end up as soup. The joke might’ve been bad, but it certainly is on the reader for not seeing that obvious connection.
      - jonplackett 6y ago
        I got your joke even if no-one else did.
- Jaruzel 6y ago
  > manned expeditions staffed expeditions...? crewed expeditions...? Unless you are not planning on sending any women?
  - bitcharmer 6y ago
    From Oxford dictionary: manned /adjective/ (of an aircraft or spacecraft) having a human crew. "a manned mission to Mars" is even given as an example use.
    - Jaruzel 6y ago
      In the same way we're removing master/slave and terms like 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' we should also take the opportunity to remove the de-facto sexism in our language. Just because the definition is in the dictionary, doesn't mean it can't be updated.
      - valuearb 6y ago
        Who is we?
      - jk700 6y ago
        Could you please stop with this ideological political activism? There is no inherent sexism in any language, ancient historical origin of the words isn't carried over to modern meaning, semantics of the words and doesn't create any bias against women or men. Meaning is created by mass media, people, world around you through propagandistic rhetorics. If you hang out with someone expressing "sexist" attitude or exposed to them through media, it really doesn't matter what words they use to call things they want to be for men or for women, you will still develop "sexist" associations, for example, you still won't consider babysitting a manly task, no matter how politically correct gender-neutral it is called.
  - 542354234235 6y ago
    Words like “manned”, “no-man’s land”, and “mankind” are derived all the way back to proto Germanic “mann” through to old English, which meant “person” or “human”. Mistaking it as gendered is like mistaking “history” as gendered because it has “his” in it.
    - dmos62 6y ago

Don’t be silly. Nuclear pulse rocketry is very well understood from an engineering perspective, the forces it generates are easily managed, and the radiation it produces easily shielded for. Without a doubt it’s by far the most practical candidate for sending manned expeditions to the nearby stars.

ewindal 6y ago
Clearly beign silly isn’t appreciated.
- nkrisc 6y ago
  With only text to go on, your joke has to be pretty good to not be mistaken for an, shall we say, "uninformed" comment.
  - ewindal 6y ago
    I was replying to a comment whose parent said anything sent would end up as soup. The joke might’ve been bad, but it certainly is on the reader for not seeing that obvious connection.
    - jonplackett 6y ago
      I got your joke even if no-one else did.
Jaruzel 6y ago
> manned expeditions staffed expeditions...? crewed expeditions...? Unless you are not planning on sending any women?
- bitcharmer 6y ago
  From Oxford dictionary: manned /adjective/ (of an aircraft or spacecraft) having a human crew. "a manned mission to Mars" is even given as an example use.
  - Jaruzel 6y ago
    In the same way we're removing master/slave and terms like 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' we should also take the opportunity to remove the de-facto sexism in our language. Just because the definition is in the dictionary, doesn't mean it can't be updated.
    - valuearb 6y ago
      Who is we?
    - jk700 6y ago
      Could you please stop with this ideological political activism? There is no inherent sexism in any language, ancient historical origin of the words isn't carried over to modern meaning, semantics of the words and doesn't create any bias against women or men. Meaning is created by mass media, people, world around you through propagandistic rhetorics. If you hang out with someone expressing "sexist" attitude or exposed to them through media, it really doesn't matter what words they use to call things they want to be for men or for women, you will still develop "sexist" associations, for example, you still won't consider babysitting a manly task, no matter how politically correct gender-neutral it is called.
- 542354234235 6y ago
  Words like “manned”, “no-man’s land”, and “mankind” are derived all the way back to proto Germanic “mann” through to old English, which meant “person” or “human”. Mistaking it as gendered is like mistaking “history” as gendered because it has “his” in it.
  - dmos62 6y ago