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AKA Affirmative Action Is Good: The Movie. We already bar people with heart defects from participating in space programs.
by blueskin_ 12y ago
AKA Affirmative Action Is Good: The Movie.
We already bar people with heart defects from participating in space programs.
- maxerickson 12y agoI thought the whole point was that the main character got into space on merit, even though all the fancy genetic screening predicted that he wouldn't be able to. The human spirit of an individual triumphs over a short sighted and capricious society. You mention the heart defect. In the movie, the heart defect is only genetically potential, it is implied that if the character had it they would be dead before the events of the film.
- adrianN 12y agoHe does cheat on both the medical and the physical exams.
- maxerickson 12y agoSure, I guess I would refine it and say that he made it into space based on some standard of merit that I was defining, not based on the one the short sighted and capricious society defined.