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2019-09-21 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Besoeker 2019-09-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 IMO, from my experiences in academia, that Affirmative Action always promotes the worst members of the affirmed group. And, everyone, can see the same effect in politics. So, why not NASA?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-21 03:02|| 2019-09-21 03:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Even if that were feasible, those companies do not exist.

Neither do individual 'diversity hires' possessing both skills and integrity to entrust them with such enterprise.

And that there is the conclusion any logical admin would stop at. But not a committee of tribalists and naive apologists that would destroy hard won achievements of real people just to come to an office full of fist-bumping and strange hairdos.

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-21 05:10|| 2019-09-21 05:10|| Front Page Top

#3 'This one did sneak up on us': Internal NASA emails reveal how it almost 'missed' a football-field-sized asteroid so big it could have destroyed a CITY when it whizzed past Earth in July

Posted by Skidmark 2019-09-21 05:39|| 2019-09-21 05:39|| Front Page Top

#4 NASA is no different than the public schools scam. Iron rice bowls for mediocre carrerists.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-21 06:57|| 2019-09-21 06:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Re: #3
was the largest rock to have done so in almost 100 years.

Yep, nothing snuck by us for a century we're on top of everything here at NASA even though we didn't exist then.

Sounds like those "climate" records from before the advent of thermometers.

Posted by AlanC 2019-09-21 08:19|| 2019-09-21 08:19|| Front Page Top

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