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Women in Space.

Manc Skipper

Manc Skipper

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell was denied a nobel prize for her discovery of pulsars. It went to her thesis supervisor. It's a common theme in science as in society at large, that women's contribution can be marginalised and ignored. Science is somehow more obvious. My train of thought was started by a pic I saw of a female scientist I never heard of, who was instrumental to the success of the Apollo missions.

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Manc Skipper said:
Jocelyn Bell Burnell was denied a nobel prize for her discovery of pulsars. It went to her thesis supervisor. It's a common theme in science as in society at large, that women's contribution can be marginalised and ignored. Science is somehow more obvious. My train of thought was started by a pic I saw of a female scientist I never heard of, who was instrumental to the success of the Apollo missions.

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Good point. If a man had written that code, it would've been one tenth that size. My wife is the master of making a short story long. :mrgreen:
 
Manc Skipper said:
Jocelyn Bell Burnell was denied a nobel prize for her discovery of pulsars. It went to her thesis supervisor. It's a common theme in science as in society at large, that women's contribution can be marginalised and ignored. Science is somehow more obvious. My train of thought was started by a pic I saw of a female scientist I never heard of, who was instrumental to the success of the Apollo missions.

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1) Just because you, personally, haven't heard of her, it doesn't mean no one else has.

2) How many male programmers for the Apollo program can you name?
 
Women really shouldn't be involved in space exploration.

Their menstruation would attract space bears.
 
Harshaw said:
1) Just because you, personally, haven't heard of her, it doesn't mean no one else has.

2) How many male programmers for the Apollo program can you name?
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But but.......MISOGYNY!!!!!!!
 
The only folks that get recognition...are the astronaughts. Why?


Because they are the ones at mortal risk.

And even now, astronaughts are no longer famous.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Jocelyn Bell Burnell was denied a nobel prize for her discovery of pulsars. It went to her thesis supervisor. It's a common theme in science as in society at large, that women's contribution can be marginalised and ignored. Science is somehow more obvious. My train of thought was started by a pic I saw of a female scientist I never heard of, who was instrumental to the success of the Apollo missions.

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There is a mini series playing right now "Einstein". And part of his early troubles was not attributing his wife's contributions to his early work on his Theory of Relativity.

I enjoyed watching it.
 
Oops, someone said something good about a woman and her achievements. And now we get to watch the haters come out of the woodwork.
 
rocket88 said:
Oops, someone said something good about a woman and her achievements. And now we get to watch the haters come out of the woodwork.
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:roll: You beclown yourself, as normal.
 
rocket88 said:
Then explain your "but what about the men" garbage.
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The point was obvious, and it wasn't "what about the men?" . . .

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rocket88 said:
Right...uh huh...classic you. Say something and run from it.
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Rocket88 can't understand, when someone tries to say that they've never heard of a woman programmer and it's because of misogyny in science, why someone would ask how many male programmers they've heard of.

Hoo-boy. My guess is literally no one else had that trouble.
 
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