{"id":537,"date":"2012-08-06T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T07:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/08\/06\/where-are-the-women-panel-of-white-men-what-are-you-thinking\/"},"modified":"2016-11-01T23:45:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T23:45:15","slug":"where-are-the-women-panel-of-white-men-what-are-you-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/2012\/08\/06\/where-are-the-women-panel-of-white-men-what-are-you-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"WHERE ARE THE WOMEN? PANEL OF WHITE MEN? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?!!?!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fact: we know many women and non-European Americans more intelligent than most anyone on this panel. You probably do to. What is wrong with JPL’s ability to attract intelligent women?!?!?!?\u00a0All white?? Are these people in a time warp?? It’s at the point someone should be fired for this. Mars attracts female space enthusiasts and persons of all ethnicities. So what’s wrong with Cal Tech?!?!? Inexcusable. We paid for this. Many engineers are more than qualified to be on this panel. Anyone walking onto that stage could have said, “Wait a moment, this is wrong. Let ___ take my place. [a long time ago]” It must not happen again. Absolutely shameful. Like something from the 1950s. Regressive, obscene, embarrassing and stupid. Unacceptable. What the hell went wrong here. Shesh. A shocking disappointment. This is not what Mars is about. Immediately alienates most of America, would-be-space-enthusiasts, worldwide, and sets us all back! Very disappointing.<\/p>\n

In contrast, this is the crowd (of taxpayers) watching at Times Square:<\/div>\n
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“Each time Mission Control released an update informing the Times Square crowd that the
\nrover had entered the atmosphere, or that the parachute had been deployed, cheers roared
\nout. Each step closer to a successful landing increased the intensity. For those walking down the
\nstreet unaware of the events unfolding before them, it must have seemed odd… Then the
\nlargest roar of all broke out, as everyone heard confirmation that Curiosity was safely on the
\nMartian surface. Cheers of ‘NASA \u2014 NASA \u2014 NASA’ and ‘Science! Science! Science!’ broke out. It
\nwas an intensely emotional release: NASA knew the risks, and, so it seemed, did the crowd.”<\/p>\n
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Fact: we know many women and non-European Americans more intelligent than most anyone on this panel. You probably do to. What is wrong with JPL’s ability to attract intelligent women?!?!?!?\u00a0All white?? Are these people in a time warp?? It’s at the point someone should be fired for this. Mars attracts female space enthusiasts and persons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-i-d-i-c-u-l-o-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/factualfiction.com\/marsartists\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}