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Katy Perry jokes aside, all flight crews should be female. Since every kg of weight matters, sending women makes sense for reducing payload. Women have been shown to suffer less physical damage from extend time in space. It is low gravity, so physical strength is less important.
This is twink erasure and I will not stand for it
But will you lay down for it?
I'm willing to negotiate
have you considered child labor in spaaaaaaaaaace?
This is the premise of light novel and anime Rocket Girls
yeah but who's gonna mansplain complicated ideas to them in space then?
I will do it over the phone
The complicated ideas:
Houston we have a problem, but it would be great if you could just listen instead of always trying to solve things.
I deserve a ban.
I mean, I'm a dude and I've had to do a lot of work in the direction of listening more and trying less to find solutions when people tell me their shit, I don't think that what you're saying is ban-worthy. I still have a lot of work to do in that department, women have made that criticism of me and it's 100% legit
Sounds more like a job for robots. I really think we need to collectively grow out of the Star Trek vision of space and truly embrace that we already exploring the universe in a much more practical way.
fuck that i want to jump out of a swimming pool on the moon and do a flip
Star Trek turned multiple generations of nerds into insufferable spaceX enjoyers.