[Erider]

Accidently drops tool bag into orbit.


Historic All-Female Space Walk Crew Accidentally Drops Tool Bag Into Orbit – PJ Media

[cjrjck]

Is it "historic" because it was an all female crew space walk or because they dropped a tool bag into orbit? Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question. We live in a time where everything is deemed historic. I just don't get it. I mean the first space walk was historic. Maybe you could argue the first time a female took a space walk was historic. After that, no. It is like what they have done to baseball. There are so many statistics they have come up with that I have no clue what they mean. And right on cue, somebody sets a new record that I don't understand but it is historic. I long for the generation before mine, the Greatest Generation. Nothing they did was historic, it was just their job and they would tell you that.

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by cjrjck

Is it "historic" because it was an all female crew space walk or because they dropped a tool bag into orbit? Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question. We live in a time where everything is deemed historic. I just don't get it. I mean the first space walk was historic. Maybe you could argue the first time a female took a space walk was historic. After that, no. It is like what they have done to baseball. There are so many statistics they have come up with that I have no clue what they mean. And right on cue, somebody sets a new record that I don't understand but it is historic. I long for the generation before mine, the Greatest Generation. Nothing they did was historic, it was just their job and they would tell you that.

There is also the Historical side of The Villages.
That must be nearly 40+ years old now.
I have a Historical suit older than that!
The other word I find that has/is losing its meaning is 'Hero.'

[Stu from NYC]

Historic really? Now my horse doing space walk would be.

[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by cjrjck

Is it "historic" because it was an all female crew space walk or because they dropped a tool bag into orbit? Don't answer, it's a rhetorical question. We live in a time where everything is deemed historic. I just don't get it. I mean the first space walk was historic. Maybe you could argue the first time a female took a space walk was historic. After that, no. It is like what they have done to baseball. There are so many statistics they have come up with that I have no clue what they mean. And right on cue, somebody sets a new record that I don't understand but it is historic. I long for the generation before mine, the Greatest Generation. Nothing they did was historic, it was just their job and they would tell you that.

True words.

My thought is that all other things being equal, people should be picked for tasks based not on what is between their legs, but what is between their ears.

[Whitley]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

True words.

My thought is that all other things being equal, people should be picked for tasks based not on what is between their legs, but what is between their ears.

How sexist

[Erider]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Historic really? Now my horse doing space walk would be.

When Elon put a Tesla into space, that was historic. I'm glad we have female astronauts brave enough to strap in on top of a giant rocket, that takes guts.

The whole push of wokeism is getting tiresome and overdone and does not sell. Marvel, Disney etc will learn or suffer.

I am all for strong female leads in movies, but nothing has come close to Ripley in Alien franchise. A true hero without any superpowers.

[MidWestIA]

my answer to hype news - so what?

[positiveinlife]

Originally Posted by Erider

Accidently drops tool bag into orbit.


Historic All-Female Space Walk Crew Accidentally Drops Tool Bag Into Orbit – PJ Media

I worked in the Aero Space for 40 yrs. You are trained to tether all tools when working around spaced based systems. That bag of tools had very expensive one of kind tools it should have been tethered to them or the spacecraft.

[Vermilion Villager]

Originally Posted by Erider

Accidently drops tool bag into orbit.


Historic All-Female Space Walk Crew Accidentally Drops Tool Bag Into Orbit – PJ Media

Hmmm....Really...thats all you got? Sounds like someone who just joined this forum is jealous.
That knock you hear on your door is the 1950s calling

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Interesting!

Is gender more important than ability?

Agreed need competence

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive

Interesting!

Is gender more important than ability?

Maybe the answer to that question was one of the reasons for putting together an all-women crew. Possibly a psychological study - women have a reputation for working well together in a group project. Men have a societal reputation for being individualistic and maybe too independent.
.....Maybe the space program is trying to resolve ANY questions like that BEFORE investing in sending crews out on long-term missions. Obviously, I don't know IF they are trying to resolve any gender mental strengths and weaknesses. For all I know, they may have already studied that ?

[Fastskiguy]

Originally Posted by Erider

I am all for strong female leads in movies, but nothing has come close to Ripley in Alien franchise. A true hero without any superpowers.

Definitely one of the best!

[positiveinlife]

Originally Posted by Fastskiguy

Definitely one of the best!

How do you compare a Hollywood fake hero to someone with the real courage to walk in space??

[Fastskiguy]

Originally Posted by Erider

I am all for strong female leads in movies, but nothing has come close to Ripley in Alien franchise. A true hero without any superpowers.

Originally Posted by positiveinlife

How do you compare a Hollywood fake hero to someone with the real courage to walk in space??

It's like comparing a fish to a bicycle of course. But I suspect you weren't replying to me....I merely said Alien was one of the best.

Joe