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Thoughts on this: is it exploration or oppression?
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What? This has to be a parody. -
Im hoping so - but I seriously think that this article is not.Originally posted by B-Fly View PostIt is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must stop it.
Bill Clinton 1995, State of the Union Address
"When they go low - we go High" great motto - too bad it was a sack of bullshit. DNC election mantraComment
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This is the sort of thing that makes me cringe, because it embodies everything progressives get mocked for. In this case, rightly so.Comment
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I'd think so, too, but after this answer by Dr. Prescod-Weinstein, a high ranking, highly credentialed physicist on the NASA Space-X project, relative to Mars colonization I'm not sure, either:Originally posted by B-Fly View Post
Edit to add: this, and the remainder of her quotes from the article Nots posted, are from a Gizmodo interview.I’m trying to think carefully about what our relationship to Mars should be, and whether we can avoid reproducing deeply entrenched colonial behaviors as we seek to better understand our Solar System. This includes thinking about why our language for developing understandings of environments that are new to us tends to still be colonial: “colonizing Mars” and “exploring” and “developing,” for example. These are deeply fraught terms that have traditionally referred to problematic behaviors by imperialists with those that we would call “indigenous” and “people of color” often on the receiving end of violent activities. . .I'm just here for the baseball.
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I read a couple of her other articles, this is not a parody.Originally posted by B-Fly View PostComment
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Marvin is not having it.Comment
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you'd have to find a way to restart mars magnetic field first.Comment
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all life is, is a game where people try to be the boss of everyone else. one big narcissistic popularity contest.Comment
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Survival of the fittest doesn't have much to do with popularity.Originally posted by nullnor View PostComment
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Um, what 2.0! I think I’m going to need an aspirin this morning.I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Ronald ReaganComment
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Doesn't popularity have a lot to do with sex? and money? which, in turn, has a lot to do with sex?Originally posted by Gregg View Post"Jesus said to them, 'Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you.'"Comment
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So you're saying it's a circle-jerk.Originally posted by Kevin Seitzer View Post
"Looks like I picked a bad day to give up sniffing glue.
- Steven McCrosky (Lloyd Bridges) in Airplane
i have epiphanies like that all the time. for example i was watching a basketball game today and realized pom poms are like a pair of tits. there's 2 of them. they're round. they shake. women play with them. thus instead of having two, cheerleaders have four boobs.
- nullnor, speaking on immigration law in AZ.Comment
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careful....................Originally posted by In the Corn View PostSo you're saying it's a circle-jerk.
It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must stop it.
Bill Clinton 1995, State of the Union Address
"When they go low - we go High" great motto - too bad it was a sack of bullshit. DNC election mantraComment
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realistically, any society you have on Mars will have to be authoritarian/totalitarian for the first 100 years or so as "survival" is paramount over liberty."You know what's wrong with America? If I lovingly tongue a woman's nipple in a movie, it gets an "NC-17" rating, if I chop it off with a machete, it's an "R". That's what's wrong with America, man...."--Dennis Hopper
"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." -- Klaus KinskiComment
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