NASA Denounces Space Exploration

[LuckyDuck]

Nov 24 2020
NASA Denounces Space Exploration
Formerly, the point of NASA was to explore outer space. But it has been so grotesquely deranged by moonbattery that it now embraces the opposite mission — preventing space exploration:

NASA’s Equity Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (EDIWG) publishes an anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist manifesto which, if followed, would effectively ban the USA from exploration of Mars, our Moon and other planetary bodies.

The manifesto is entitled, “Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices.” National Review has details:

[T]he EDIWG authors say that human space exploration must be stopped because it represents a continuation of the West’s tradition of resource development through free enterprise. “All of humanity is a stakeholder in how we, the planetary science and astrobiology community, engage with other worlds,” they say. “Violent colonial practices and structures — genocide, land appropriation, resource extraction, environmental devastation, and more — have governed exploration on Earth, and if not actively dismantled, will define the methodologies and mindsets we carry forward into space exploration. . . . It is critical that ethics and anticolonial practices are a central consideration of planetary protection. We must actively work to prevent capitalist extraction on other worlds, respect and preserve their environmental systems, and acknowledge the sovereignty and interconnectivity of all life.”

So far as we know, there is no life on other worlds. But just in case there is, we better not go out there, lest we infect it with free enterprise.

Look what happened when our ancestors discovered America. Stone Age savagery was displaced by a civilization that placed men on the moon. You wouldn’t want more of that, would you?

Even if there are only microbes on other planets, humans must be kept from disturbing them, because according to cutting edge progressive ideology, microbes are people too.

“There must be further discussion of what moral consideration microbial life on other worlds should have, beyond their scientific significance,” they say. “Consideration of ‘intelligence’ or ‘non-intelligence’ should not be used as a framework in this discussion. Not only do biological distinctions of intelligence have a racist history, they do not hold scientific merit. It is clear that microbiology is foundational to Earth as we know it, and microbes are deserving of moral consideration.”

Maybe it is just as well if we are kept from exploring outer space. If we do find microbes out there, liberals will want to given them voting rights and sign them up for welfare.

There is probably no life on Mars anyway. Humans still must be kept away:

“Even if there is no extant microbial life on Mars or beyond, we must consider the impacts of our actions on geological timescales,” they say. “A human presence on an astrobiologically significant world could disrupt evolutionary processes already in place. What moral obligation do we have towards potential future life that our presence on Mars could impact, or to hybrid forms of life that our presence could potentially create? These questions must be addressed by planetary protection policy.”

We have to stay away from the moon as well, because we might spoil the scenic beauty of a wasteland even more remote and uninhabited than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and also because the moon might be sacred to indigenous peoples, and indigenous peoples are sacred to moonbats.

“Aesthetics should also be considered. If Moon mining is to be an extensive enterprise as planned, these changes will be visible from Earth,” they claim, “fundamentally changing one of the few communal human experiences of gazing at the Moon. In addition, the Moon and other planetary bodies are sacred to some cultures. Is it possible for those beliefs to be respected if we engage in resource utilization on those worlds?”

The EDIWG authors assert that the moon has a right to remain unchanged. Human rights for microbes were not the final extreme of absurdity. Now rocks floating through outer space have rights.
If NASA can’t explore space because it would be unethical to inflict colonial oppression on microbes and rocks, how about private industry? No dice:

[H]elping to meet the needs of humanity by entrepreneurial development of resources from space would be a bad thing, because “enabling those with the wealth to privately engage in space exploration efforts could exacerbate already extreme wealth inequality in the immediate future.”

Mankind cannot explore space or strive upward in any other meaningful way until it has first rid itself of moonbattery.

On a tip from Steve T.
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Why in the hell does nasa have a " Equity Diversity and Inclusion Working Group"

I wonder what the taxpayers are paying these useless waste of lives

Hmmmm.....Stay on Earth to ensure that sometime in the future, all humankind on the planet ends along with the other lifeforms. I expected that with the election on the Marxist/Democrat ticket, NASA would be cut back to pay for social programs that are going to bust the U.S. economy, but never getting humans off this rock...that's idiotic.

 

[jackflash]

Those aren't NASA documents ... [shrugs shoulders] ... this might surprise you, but NASA is required to accept any and all comments provided by the general public ... doesn't mean they have to follow these comments to the letter ...

That doesn't mean this isn't an active field of research ... care is taken to keep terrestrial microbes off of Mars and extra-terrestrial microbes off of Earth ... simple sanitation ... the notion that NASA is trying to prevent commercial exploitation of outer space is nonsense ... there's nothing out there to exploit ...

The dirty little secret is that the only scientific research being done in outer space is how to conduct scientific research in outer space ...

Of course the document isn't part of NASA, that is because the group ( Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (EDIWG), isn't part of NASA in the first place, here from the NR article you didn't read:

"In October 2020, NASA’s Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey committee received a manifesto from its Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (EDIWG). Written by NASA Ames Research Center public-communications specialist Frank Tavares — along with a group of eleven co-authors including noted activists drawn from the fields of anthropology, ethics, philosophy, decolonial theory, and women’s studies — and supported by a list of 109 signatories, “Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices” lacks technical merit. It is, nevertheless of great clinical interest, as it brilliantly demonstrates how the ideologies responsible for the destruction of university liberal-arts education can be put to work to abort space exploration as well. "

It is a WHITE PAPER, thus from outside of NASA.

Do you have evidence this is a fake paper, the group is fake?

@ Sst; thanks so much Sst for the link! It's as I suspected, It's the kooky lefties again with their anti capitalist pro marxist anti human religion. The kooky left is as kooky today as their forerunner kooky lefties were back in my day. Once they get the hallucinogens in them their brains are fried. It was so bad back in the late sixties/early seventies that some of those lefty hippies when they came off their trip(s) actually told us(hotrodders) that they met & even talked with aliens!!! No doubt the legends of those tripsters of yester-century have heavily influenced the hyper gullible lefty tripsters of today. Thanks again Sst for the link!

 

[fncceo]

Obviously we have to go to Mars.

Why?

 

[Unkotare]

Obviously we have to go to Mars.

Why?

The same reason for climbing a mountain.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Nov 24 2020
NASA Denounces Space Exploration
Formerly, the point of NASA was to explore outer space. But it has been so grotesquely deranged by moonbattery that it now embraces the opposite mission — preventing space exploration:

NASA’s Equity Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (EDIWG) publishes an anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist manifesto which, if followed, would effectively ban the USA from exploration of Mars, our Moon and other planetary bodies.

The manifesto is entitled, “Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices.” National Review has details:

[T]he EDIWG authors say that human space exploration must be stopped because it represents a continuation of the West’s tradition of resource development through free enterprise. “All of humanity is a stakeholder in how we, the planetary science and astrobiology community, engage with other worlds,” they say. “Violent colonial practices and structures — genocide, land appropriation, resource extraction, environmental devastation, and more — have governed exploration on Earth, and if not actively dismantled, will define the methodologies and mindsets we carry forward into space exploration. . . . It is critical that ethics and anticolonial practices are a central consideration of planetary protection. We must actively work to prevent capitalist extraction on other worlds, respect and preserve their environmental systems, and acknowledge the sovereignty and interconnectivity of all life.”

So far as we know, there is no life on other worlds. But just in case there is, we better not go out there, lest we infect it with free enterprise.

Look what happened when our ancestors discovered America. Stone Age savagery was displaced by a civilization that placed men on the moon. You wouldn’t want more of that, would you?

Even if there are only microbes on other planets, humans must be kept from disturbing them, because according to cutting edge progressive ideology, microbes are people too.

“There must be further discussion of what moral consideration microbial life on other worlds should have, beyond their scientific significance,” they say. “Consideration of ‘intelligence’ or ‘non-intelligence’ should not be used as a framework in this discussion. Not only do biological distinctions of intelligence have a racist history, they do not hold scientific merit. It is clear that microbiology is foundational to Earth as we know it, and microbes are deserving of moral consideration.”

Maybe it is just as well if we are kept from exploring outer space. If we do find microbes out there, liberals will want to given them voting rights and sign them up for welfare.

There is probably no life on Mars anyway. Humans still must be kept away:

“Even if there is no extant microbial life on Mars or beyond, we must consider the impacts of our actions on geological timescales,” they say. “A human presence on an astrobiologically significant world could disrupt evolutionary processes already in place. What moral obligation do we have towards potential future life that our presence on Mars could impact, or to hybrid forms of life that our presence could potentially create? These questions must be addressed by planetary protection policy.”

We have to stay away from the moon as well, because we might spoil the scenic beauty of a wasteland even more remote and uninhabited than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and also because the moon might be sacred to indigenous peoples, and indigenous peoples are sacred to moonbats.

“Aesthetics should also be considered. If Moon mining is to be an extensive enterprise as planned, these changes will be visible from Earth,” they claim, “fundamentally changing one of the few communal human experiences of gazing at the Moon. In addition, the Moon and other planetary bodies are sacred to some cultures. Is it possible for those beliefs to be respected if we engage in resource utilization on those worlds?”

The EDIWG authors assert that the moon has a right to remain unchanged. Human rights for microbes were not the final extreme of absurdity. Now rocks floating through outer space have rights.
If NASA can’t explore space because it would be unethical to inflict colonial oppression on microbes and rocks, how about private industry? No dice:

[H]elping to meet the needs of humanity by entrepreneurial development of resources from space would be a bad thing, because “enabling those with the wealth to privately engage in space exploration efforts could exacerbate already extreme wealth inequality in the immediate future.”

Mankind cannot explore space or strive upward in any other meaningful way until it has first rid itself of moonbattery.

On a tip from Steve T.
All links highlighted
Why in the hell does nasa have a " Equity Diversity and Inclusion Working Group"

I wonder what the taxpayers are paying these useless waste of lives

So one working group publishes a paper to be considered, and the white nationaliats completely mangle its meaning and whine that NASA hates space exploration.

Sounds about right. Is there anyone on the planet more hysterical and thin skinned than you bunch of whiny babies? Nope. We will have to explore space just to find them.

 

[teodor88]

I support the space exploration campaign but only if some reasonable projects are used for the further space missions. Not like the one like building colonizing Venus and building there floating platforms. However, I need to admit that there are also some good projects where NASA takes part in. The partnership between NASA and ESA is based on observing Earth and its changing environment. This campaign will be based on observing the Earth from space with the help of satellite technology in order to save the environment on Earth. Btw such method has already been used by some private space agencies from Europe.

 

[Flash]

Once Joe Dufus appointed that idiot Bill Nelson to head NASA then we all knew it was going to be corrupted.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Nov 24 2020
NASA Denounces Space Exploration
Formerly, the point of NASA was to explore outer space. But it has been so grotesquely deranged by moonbattery that it now embraces the opposite mission — preventing space exploration:

The manifesto is entitled, “Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices.” National Review has details:

So far as we know, there is no life on other worlds. But just in case there is, we better not go out there, lest we infect it with free enterprise.

Look what happened when our ancestors discovered America. Stone Age savagery was displaced by a civilization that placed men on the moon. You wouldn’t want more of that, would you?

Even if there are only microbes on other planets, humans must be kept from disturbing them, because according to cutting edge progressive ideology, microbes are people too.

Maybe it is just as well if we are kept from exploring outer space. If we do find microbes out there, liberals will want to given them voting rights and sign them up for welfare.

There is probably no life on Mars anyway. Humans still must be kept away:

We have to stay away from the moon as well, because we might spoil the scenic beauty of a wasteland even more remote and uninhabited than the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and also because the moon might be sacred to indigenous peoples, and indigenous peoples are sacred to moonbats.

The EDIWG authors assert that the moon has a right to remain unchanged. Human rights for microbes were not the final extreme of absurdity. Now rocks floating through outer space have rights.
If NASA can’t explore space because it would be unethical to inflict colonial oppression on microbes and rocks, how about private industry? No dice:

Mankind cannot explore space or strive upward in any other meaningful way until it has first rid itself of moonbattery.

On a tip from Steve T.
All links highlighted
Why in the hell does nasa have a " Equity Diversity and Inclusion Working Group"

I wonder what the taxpayers are paying these useless waste of lives

How dare we subject the lifelessness of the Moon and Mars to our Colonialism. Fucking loons. Thankfully private industry is starting to push the bloated, big government space agencies aside.

 

[teodor88]

Starship will officially be the single solution for the first lunar landing mission under NASA’s Artemis program to return to the Moon. This comes after the US GAO backed the decision to use Starship as the lander, stating it didn’t break any laws with the selection. The space agency first announced its decision to land astronauts on the Moon with SpaceX in April, but legal protests from the Blue Origin-led National Team and Dynetics halted progress for the contract.

 

[james bond]

The same reason for climbing a mountain.

Will you contribute $100 to my jb goes to Mars fund to show you are sincere?

 

[Wuwei]

Yes there is no question that the manifest was written by a snowflake and was supported by a list of 109 non-NASA signatories who are snowflakes.

If we do find microbes out there, liberals will want to given them voting rights and sign them up for welfare.

But why do you feel you have to bring politics into this science forum. Both parties have their share of idiots. We could just as easily say republicans will try to make them Christians and teach them how to claim their elections are rigged.

The problem isn't liberal idiocy or republican idiocy. It is that idiocy has no boundaries.

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