Posted on 10/13/2017 8:23:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Alia Al Mansoori, the young Emirati winner of the "Genes in Space" competition, told the Pearl FM, the Middle East’s first radio station dedicated to children, that her dream is to be the first Emirati woman to visit Mars.
Under the sponsorship of the Global Space Congress, Al Mansoori went to Florida, USA, earlier this year and witnessed the launch of Falcon 9, her very own scientific space experiment.
In the interview with Pearl FM’s "The Breakfast Club" hosted by Emirati presenter Saif Abdulla, Al Mansoori spoke about NASA and her dream to go to space. She also discussed her studies and her ambitions to excel and to complete her postgraduate studies before fulfilling her dream.
The well-spoken young girl said that, as an Emirati citizen, her goal is to play an active role in society and to bring honor to the UAE when participating in scientific forums. She said that her wish is to highlight the fact that Emirati women can achieve the impossible. Her dream, she added, is to be the first Emirati woman to visit Mars.
Al Mansoori’s interview with Pearl FM will be aired on Thursday, 12th October, in the morning. By highlighting examples of young Emiratis who excel in various fields the station’s goal is twofold – to offer young listeners successful role models and to make non-Arab and global audiences aware of these inspirational youth.
Earn your place, we need a fiirst Muslim on Mars as badly as we need the first case of Syphlis on Mars. Want to make the trip, make yourself worthy and compete like everyone else.
Bring honor to the UAT as a member of a religion that beats women. Priorities.
That will make Americans more aware of the unconscious sexism of our space program.
Of course space itself is patriarchal--7 of the 9 planets have male names, all except Venus and Earth (Terra).
But if you count any object orbiting the sun which is more than 700 miles in diameter as a planet, then there are 10, because then Eris would be a planet (it is thought to have a diameter of 925 miles, so it is larger than Pluto). In that case 3 of the 10 planets would have female names. 30%--almost as high as the proportion of Supreme Court justices who have female names.
perhaps she can take the entirety of Emirati and the Arabati with her to Mars. I would even pitch in to see that happen.
Any muslims volunteering to go to Mars, we should send them immediately.
Give her a one way ticket to anywhere Afganistan and she won’t be able to tell the difference.
But we both know that “bringing honor to the ME is a fools errand”. She will be nothing more than the Prince of Kuwait who was a “Mission Specialist” on the Shuttle. A political payoff that bumped a worthy man/woman from a mission that had been earned.
No free trips. This is America. America and Americans FIRST!!
Be sure to do a careful SCREENING before she gets on the spaceship.
Just kidding. If she earns her place, more power to her.
Their training includes exhaustive research by watching reruns of The Flintstones.
SpaceX might be surprised to hear Falcon 9 is not their experiment.
It would be as good as a vacation on Venus (allusion, see Cyril Kornbluth, “The Marching Morons” short story free at Project Gutenberg).
I agree.
Not if you are driving because YOU CANNOT!
Sharia or syphlis? Tough choice!
This must be part of 0bama’s Muslim outreach program @ NASA.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/flashback-obama-turns-nasa-muslim-outreach-program
How is she gonna kneel 5x a day in space? It’s not possible.
You read that wrong. It does not mean that the Falcon 9 was her science experiment, rather it was her act of her ‘witnessing’ that was the scientific space experiment ...
How about, maybe this kid will go to college, earn an advanced degree in mathematics, come to America and be chosen for the space program based on her skill set? She is just a kid.
She’s a mussulman; let her take the Mussulman Express Rocket. We’ve got too many mussulmen already. Skill sets of mussulmen are based on taqiyya.
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