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After DEI, Every Country Except America
Can Land on the Moon

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Posted By: Christopher L, 1/23/2024 8:38:48 PM

On January 18th, the latest attempt in over 50 years by the United States to return to the moon burned up over the Pacific Ocean. A day later, Japan’s lunar lander made it to the moon. In 2023, India landed its robot lander on the moon in a mission that only cost $75 million, while in 2020, China became the third nation, after America and the USSR, to return lunar samples. So why is the United States still struggling to manage something that every other country seems to be able to do and that American engineers used to be able to pull off with slide rules?

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NASA is focused on men going where no man has gone before… the ladies’ room.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: SkyKing1222 1/23/2024 9:00:34 PM (No. 1642939)
“John Kennedy put a man on the moon, Barack Obama put a man in the women’s bathroom “ Author unknown
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Luandir 1/23/2024 9:06:40 PM (No. 1642942)
The spacecraft that failed was built by a private firm, Astrobotics. What their DEI practices are, I don't know. The first model to fly faces increased risk of failure - that has always been true. What I fear is a much bigger catastrophe, when an Artemis blows up on ascent or crash-lands on the moon. NASA's fixation on DEI is begging such a thing to happen.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: BarryNo 1/23/2024 9:10:55 PM (No. 1642944)
The Democrats are the antithesis of intelligence. Like most dummies, they firmly, even violently believe they are the smartest person in the room.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: volksford 1/23/2024 9:13:16 PM (No. 1642947)
HA..HA ! Nelson Muntz
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Vesicant 1/23/2024 9:52:29 PM (No. 1642969)
Uh huh. The Japanese SLIM failed immediately after landing. The Indian lander didn't wake up after being put to sleep. Those sound like failures to me. Yes, the Chinese brought samples back from the Moon, but the US OSIRIS-X brought samples back from an asteroid, which is a lot smaller and harder to hit than the Moon. NASA has had the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon since 2009 and it still works fine. Only the US, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China have landed hardware on Mars, and most of the non-US ones failed. Yes, DEI is an evil monstrosity, but Greenfield's bloviating does no one any good.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: ThreeBadCats3 1/23/2024 10:06:09 PM (No. 1642981)
Some books about flat Earth and the like actually believe that there has never been a moon landing, or a toy tractor sending messages back from Mars. I don’t believe it, but the theory makes interesting reading. Something I have time for since retirement.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 1/23/2024 10:07:04 PM (No. 1642982)
All you need is a uniform Workforce and shared goals. You know like in the rest of the world.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: ironchefw 1/23/2024 11:40:22 PM (No. 1643002)
Biden would probably put a George Floyd statue and a rainbow flag on the moon. Right on the spot where Neil Armstrong set foot.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: mseegal 1/23/2024 11:52:12 PM (No. 1643007)
And what's with the FAA actively hiring handicapped people? Just what I need...a visually impaired person flying a United plane. The cross-dressing CEO is all in on DIE.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 1/24/2024 12:21:41 AM (No. 1643018)
"Diversity is strength".....great slogan, but the precise opposite is TRUTH.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Trigger2 1/24/2024 3:46:59 AM (No. 1643053)
Simple. DEI only allows the dumb to compete and get jobs for which they're unqualified for.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: varkdriver 1/24/2024 5:36:43 AM (No. 1643074)
#1: Nice! Will remember that one. Sounds like a Dennis Miller or Greg Gutfeld quote. #5: Thanks for the additional info. Yes, getting to the Moon is difficult, but actually operating on the surface/obtaining samples, and then safely returning to Earth is way harder to do. Elon Musk has done incredible things with space launches that I doubt NASA (or Boeing) could do these days.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: red1066 1/24/2024 9:23:54 AM (No. 1643210)
No, the U.S. has not gone back to the moon. They've done something even more difficult. They've landed on Mars and an asteroid and brought items back to earth to study.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Lazyman 1/24/2024 11:16:28 AM (No. 1643331)
# 10. Other slogans: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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