@angusm Everyone? Really?

For me, it's just yet more boys (and token girls) with obscenely expensive toys, gobbling up vast amounts of resources for a joyride and for research which will enable huge lots iof evil.

@2legged @angusm We really gonna diminish Christina Koch's career as an astronaut and engineer by calling her a token?

Really??? Come the fuck on.

@himbovoorhees My only concern about anyone's career as an astronaut is to wish that they stay on earth.

The whole obscene waste remains male-dominated, tho that's only a tiny part of my anger and revulsion at the whole show. But if people wanna do these stunts, there's no excuse for gender imbalance.

I just wish the whole lot of them would be banned from orbital thrillseking, and given a good trouting before going off to be useful, like disabling ICBMs or becoming human shields.

@angusm

@2legged Becoming human shields? Really? Yeah, better use of the "token girl" to take a bullet for someone else than when she set records with other female astronauts. If we don't like her achievements or expertise, we can just diminish them and write them off! That's the real feminism!

I think it's entirely possible to do both space and other things, but unfortunately the government is not currently interested in other things. The space program essentially being mostly dead for the past couple decades didn't make a difference on those, either.

@himbovoorhees You still miss my point. The space program is not just an obscene waste of resources. It is part of the a technological exercise which has turned space into a new theatre of war. It is a dangerous and wicked thing, which should be ended.

These people who have been falsely glorified while they damage humanity's future could redeem themselves by following the heroic example of Rachel Corrie. They could place their bodies in service of human life instead of technological ego trips