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Putting the first man or person on the moon was a technical achievement. Putting a person of another identity is not a technical achievement. If the goal is “b
by avgcorrection 3y ago
Putting the first man or person on the moon was a technical achievement. Putting a person of another identity is not a technical achievement.
If the goal is “but X can do Y too” then there are already women astronauts so goal achieved I guess.
- 0_____0 3y agoThe moonshot was a technical achievement with a political goal. Putting a person on the moon in the next decade will also be a (different) technical achievement with a political goal. 70% of the US is either female, POC, or both. Enticing that mind bogglingly huge demographic into STEM has massive utility for this country. Evidence shows that people aspire more easily to be like people they resemble, and the moonshot that inspired "Whitey On The Moon" didn't do that job well. What would you pay to add 10 million more engineers and scientists to the trajectory of this nation over the next couple decades?
- 0_____0 3y agoLots of vote thrash but no replies. I invite you to examine whether you are reacting to keywords or to concepts, and if the latter, to chime in with what you’ve found, I’m legitimately interested.
- avgcorrection 3y ago> 70% of the US is either female, POC, or both. The US is I guess 51% women, maybe 20–30% Hispanic, maybe 15% African-American, and so on. Then you just need to put one of every identity on the Moon in the next decade. Because surely you didn’t think that the average person of a sociological minority identify themselves as “not a white [straight] male”.