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''My Dream Is to Be the First Emirati Woman to Go to Mars'': Alia Al Mansoori
Emirates 24/7 ^ | Thursday, October 12, 2017

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.


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1 posted on 10/13/2017 8:23:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

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.


2 posted on 10/13/2017 8:29:25 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: Hodar

Bring honor to the UAT as a member of a religion that beats women. Priorities.


3 posted on 10/13/2017 8:35:42 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: nickcarraway
Maybe she has heard from Sheila Jackson Lee about the US having already sent men to Mars. So she wants the Emirates to send women to Mars before they send men.

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.

4 posted on 10/13/2017 8:47:48 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Hodar

perhaps she can take the entirety of Emirati and the Arabati with her to Mars. I would even pitch in to see that happen.


5 posted on 10/13/2017 8:51:31 PM PDT by GreatRoad
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To: nickcarraway

Any muslims volunteering to go to Mars, we should send them immediately.


6 posted on 10/13/2017 9:00:24 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Hodar

Give her a one way ticket to anywhere Afganistan and she won’t be able to tell the difference.


7 posted on 10/13/2017 9:00:59 PM PDT by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up")
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To: King Moonracer

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!!


8 posted on 10/13/2017 9:03:53 PM PDT by Hodar (A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.- Burroughs)
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To: nickcarraway

Be sure to do a careful SCREENING before she gets on the spaceship.

Just kidding. If she earns her place, more power to her.


9 posted on 10/13/2017 9:04:09 PM PDT by BobL
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To: nickcarraway

Their training includes exhaustive research by watching reruns of The Flintstones.


10 posted on 10/13/2017 9:11:31 PM PDT by albie
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witnessed the launch of Falcon 9, her very own scientific space experiment.

SpaceX might be surprised to hear Falcon 9 is not their experiment.

11 posted on 10/13/2017 9:35:58 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan
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To: nickcarraway

It would be as good as a vacation on Venus (allusion, see Cyril Kornbluth, “The Marching Morons” short story free at Project Gutenberg).


12 posted on 10/13/2017 10:19:40 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: GreatRoad

I agree.


13 posted on 10/13/2017 10:31:23 PM PDT by buffyt (Humane Societies are proudly No Kill. When will Planned Parenthood be No Kill!??!?!!?!?!?!)
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To: nickcarraway

Not if you are driving because YOU CANNOT!


14 posted on 10/13/2017 11:46:05 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: Hodar

Sharia or syphlis? Tough choice!


15 posted on 10/13/2017 11:47:32 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: nickcarraway

This must be part of 0bama’s Muslim outreach program @ NASA.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/flashback-obama-turns-nasa-muslim-outreach-program


16 posted on 10/14/2017 12:12:11 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Hodar

How is she gonna kneel 5x a day in space? It’s not possible.


17 posted on 10/14/2017 12:51:37 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (TETELESTI Read em and weep Lucy! Yer times almost up.)
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To: HonkyTonkMan

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 ...


18 posted on 10/14/2017 2:18:10 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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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.


19 posted on 10/14/2017 5:35:11 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” - DJT)
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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.


20 posted on 10/14/2017 6:30:44 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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