On Topic Discussion The James Webb telescope stands for LGBT discrimination

[Paws]

And the privileged engineers and scientists who worked on it don't care about humans on earth who have nothing to eat. Instead of shooting more waste into space, NASA could have used that money for equality.

 

[Peloso]

And the privileged engineers and scientists who worked on it don't care about humans on earth who have nothing to eat. Instead of shooting more waste into space, NASA could have used that money for equality.

....or any number of things that many people are in dire need of and our government is too inept to find a way to provide.

The same goes for space programs all around the globe. We should clean up our own backyard before we go pissing in space.

 

[Charon]

Reminds me of the twats who accused Michael Myers of being homophobic because he killed gay characters in his recent movie. Dude kills anyone, doesn't care what you are, lol. (Could've been satire, though.)

 

[unloadonme]

Arguably, the money could have been better spent, but to suggest that the telescope stands specifically for LGBT discrimination is stretching credulity too far.

 

[Thad1527]

I don't think anyone is limiting the benefits that the discoveries made by this telescope will give to mankind.

Knowledge is power.

 

[Rickrock]

Sometimes research benefits mankind in the long term. It's hard to tell. Although it might have been better to have spent this money on equality, I suspect that this money would not have been spent that way anyway.

 

[peeonme]

We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

 

[Kahaih]

Let's just wait and see.

I believe wholeheartedly that even the most staunch homophobes will want to look at and share any gay extraterrestrial sex caught on the James Webb telescope. We won't be left out.

 

[FPNY]

I blame the boomers, seems the thing to do, they suck and have fucked the entire world over.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

We can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Terribly msileading analogy, if walking is "fix mankind" and chewing gum is "explore space" we're only doing one of those correctly.

I'm gonna have to google the discrimination thing, was James Webb a bigot? Somebody giving some deets will spare me having to open tab # 467.

 

[Alistair]

In March 2021, a commentary in Scientific American urged NASA to rename the James Webb Space Telescope, alleging that Webb had been complicit in the State Department's purge of LGBTQ individuals from the federal workforce.

I didn’t know. Don’t really care who it’s named after

 

[gsdx]

Terribly msileading analogy, if walking is "fix mankind" and chewing gum is "explore space" we're only doing one of those correctly.

I'm gonna have to google the discrimination thing, was James Webb a bigot? Somebody giving some deets will spare me having to open tab # 467.

James Webb was the NASA Administrator throughout most of the 1960s. The telescope named after him is the next step up from Hubble.

 

[Thad1527]

Text me when they find gay aliens.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Text me when they find gay aliens.

Do Russell Wilson (NFL) and Kevin Gates (rapper) count? I know they're gay and I'm 99% sure they don't come from Earth.

 

[voltronforce]

Oh for God's sake. NASA's budget has been reduced so much, this is a great use of money. Go after the Defense Budget or other giant spending programs and pork. Scientific Research pays off for mankind.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Oh for God's sake. NASA's budget has been reduced so much, this is a great use of money. Go after the Defense Budget or other giant spending programs and pork. Scientific Research pays off for mankind.

I'll tell that to everyone who can't afford food or medicine. The ones who aren't already dead from lack of access to basic resources.

 

[peeonme]

Terribly msileading analogy, if walking is "fix mankind" and chewing gum is "explore space" we're only doing one of those correctly.

I'm gonna have to google the discrimination thing, was James Webb a bigot? Somebody giving some deets will spare me having to open tab # 467.

Right now we are not doing either one very well, but being an optimist I believe that we can multitask if we put our minds to it. As far as "fixing mankind" goes... first humankind as individuals have to see their need to be "fixed".
I would advise to "fixers" to thing about "physician, heal thyself" before trying to fix others though.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Right now we are not doing either one very well, but being an optimist I believe that we can multitask if we put our minds to it. As far as "fixing mankind" goes... first humankind as individuals have to see their need to be "fixed".
I would advise to "fixers" to thing about "physician, heal thyself" before trying to fix others though.

Space exploration is super weird, the same culture that says it's totally okay is also working overtime to undo common practices from 50 years ago that we've found to be extremely damaging. Once upon a time "A little asbestos never hurt any 12 year olds" but kids don't work in factories anymore cuz we know better now. So what are we doing now that future generations are gonna have to undo? Shooting rockets into space for no reason seems like it's probably gonna make the list, or are we cock-sure there's no environmental impact of stuffing a bunch of metal with explosive chemicals and sending them off into the sky?

 

[peeonme]

^^
Everything has an impact not only on the environment but upon our future. Many advancements in medicine came from NASA https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/nasa-inventions/nasa-breakthroughs-in-medicine.htm
"Sometimes NASA didn't invent the breakthrough, but rather the technologies that led to the breakthrough or improved on them. For instance, NASA didn't invent Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), but NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed digital image processing to enhance pictures of the moon. That contributed to MRIs and CT or CAT Scans (also known as computerized tomography)."

I am sure that countries such as the USA, China and the then USSR found new ways to destroy humankind from the same technological progress. At times I feel as though we are a child playing with a loaded gun. As for the impact on the environment from shooting rockets into space is concerned it would seem to make sense to examine the use of fossil fuels in all ways that they are used, such as cargo ships, airliners, heat, lights, travel etc.

As individuals we should look for ways to limit our impact on the planet. I use bar soap as opposed to soap that come in a plastic bottle with a pump. We have plastic islands floating in the Pacific, we could all do something to stop plastic waste.

 

[Peloso]

As individuals we should look for ways to limit our impact on the planet. I use bar soap as opposed to soap that come in a plastic bottle with a pump. We have plastic islands floating in the Pacific, we could all do something to stop plastic waste.

I'll rent myself a barge later on this afternoon and deposit my plastics onto DuPont Island myself.

There's really no point in consumer recycling if commercial industries continue to pump out superfluous plastics in the name of consumer convenience. I'll toss my newspaper in the paper bin, sure, but meanwhile I collect at least one pound of junk mail and flyers from Kmart on my stoop each week. Multiply that by the three million plus residences in my city and that's a lot of paper.

Last week I ordered a couple paperback books from Amazon and they came in an oversized box filled with styrofoam peanuts. Good thing, too, since the last paperback I ordered arrived completely shattered. Maybe if the government pumped some more of my tax dollars into my healthcare instead of the military I could afford to be virtuous and order my stuff online elsewhere, but until then, I'll "do my part" once Bezos does his.

Also, I'm curious; yeah space is cool, but can anyone cite specific examples of how space exploration will benefit mankind? (Hint: Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin Space do not represent mankind).