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Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves. If NASA m
by normalaccess 2y ago
Empowering to do what? If NASA spends all day making comics then will attract people that like making media about rockets and not rockets themselves.
If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets.
If you do [THING] get good at doing [THING] and you will attract people that also want to do [THING].
- Gooblebrai 2y agoIs not as rigid as you picture it. Comics and books inspire people to get traits and achieve things like the characters from the stories. As an example: Elon, because of reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation and other sci-fi books, got inspired to do space stuff. Not to become a sci-fi writer (although that could have happened as well) Many scientists and engineers have been inspired this way when they were kids.
- hulitu 2y ago> Comics and books inspire people to get traits and achieve things like the characters from the stories. Oh, so that's why crime stories are so popular. /s
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> If NASA makes cool rockets then they will attract people that naturally align with their mission of making cool rockets This reminds me of founders with a legitimately cool product being floored by their lack of sales and marketing efforts translating into a lack of sales. Nothing sells itself. If we want astronauts, we need to keep the astronaut brand in schools. Art is a proven way to do this.
- datavirtue 2y agoCool rockets? I have always thought that rockets were rediculous. JWST, on the other hand, brought me to tears.
- iancmceachern 2y agoHow did we get JWST up there? A rocket perhaps?
- datavirtue 2y agoYep.
- iancmceachern 2y agoOne of my introductions to engineering was watching MacGyver as a kid. Now watching it, knowing what I do, it's comical. But it had a big part in getting me interested and in the door. It's the with any media or entertainment. You can't take kids to space, but you can make a book, movie or comic book where they can dream about doing it when they grow up. Put another way, it's better that kids read this comic book and not one that does nothing to develop their futures, right?
- chneu 2y agoThis is deeply flawed thinking. It also doesn't really make sense in the real world. How does anyone hear about the thing you're doing or making? How do people figure out how to get involved? How do you attract different people(women, POC, etc) to your thing if they aren't already represented? People don't just magically know about something that's interesting to them. They have to discover it. Tons of very influential or popular figures only took their path because of things like comic books(art) from NASA. I wouldn't be an engineer today if it weren't for stuff like How It's Made or Bill Nye. Representation matters.
- hulitu 2y ago> How does anyone hear about the thing you're doing or making? A long time ago there was NASA television and jpl.nasa.gov. They even had an ftp site with lots of cool pictures. Today, i don't know, i got married and don't have time for this anymore.
- iancmceachern 2y agoWhat is your opinion on Rosie the Rivoter?
- iancmceachern 2y agoSo we should send schoolchildren up in rockets?