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NASA Denounces Space Exploration
https://moonbattery.com ^ | Nov 24 2020 | By Dave Blount

Posted on 11/24/2020 10:52:11 AM PST by Red Badger

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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1 posted on 11/24/2020 10:52:11 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Well, didn’t Captain Kirk live by the Prime Directive?


2 posted on 11/24/2020 10:54:14 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: Red Badger

SpaceX is going, with or without NASA.


3 posted on 11/24/2020 10:54:49 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Red Badger

I hear a Bidden presidency means the end for NASA.


4 posted on 11/24/2020 10:55:00 AM PST by CA_soon_gone
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To: Red Badger

President Xi and Putin are smiling.


5 posted on 11/24/2020 10:55:58 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: OttawaFreeper

Sounds Like NASA has WAY too big of a budget. And has far too many employees.

if this is just a gov make work project, just give them unemployment and EBT cards and cut them off the pay roll.


6 posted on 11/24/2020 10:56:00 AM PST by uranium penguin
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To: Red Badger

Sincere Question before I dive into this long, river deep article;.....Is this a joke? I hope you’ll say ‘Yes, of course it’s a joke!”


7 posted on 11/24/2020 10:56:00 AM PST by lee martell
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To: Red Badger

I always suspected that space exploration is an instantiation of “White Privilege!”


8 posted on 11/24/2020 10:56:18 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: lee martell

Wokeists Assault Space Exploration:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/11/wokeists-assault-space-exploration/


9 posted on 11/24/2020 10:57:24 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: lee martell
Looks suspiciously like the Babylon Bee to me.

No?

Well OK then...

10 posted on 11/24/2020 10:57:44 AM PST by OKSooner (BLOAT)
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To: Red Badger

This is why we need private companies exploiting space and a Space Force defending the US.
Eff NASA. Zero out their budget and hand their assets over to the Space Force.


11 posted on 11/24/2020 10:58:05 AM PST by Little Ray (The Left and Right no longer have anything in common. A House divided against itself cannot stand.)
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To: Red Badger

What ever they are babbling about doesn’t mean a thing
if they can’t get there.

Freedom only exists on a frontier, everything else is
civilization and we know how that stifles everything.


12 posted on 11/24/2020 10:59:43 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Red Badger

Satire, I presume.


13 posted on 11/24/2020 10:59:43 AM PST by deweyfrank (Nobody's Perfect )
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To: Red Badger

You tax dollars are paying for this.


14 posted on 11/24/2020 11:00:46 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Red Badger

I see the moon and Mars as the equivalent of the western US back in the 1700’s. It’s up for grabs - but it will be hard to keep at first.


15 posted on 11/24/2020 11:01:01 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: Red Badger

Alarm!!
Bureaucrats in the wire!


16 posted on 11/24/2020 11:01:20 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: deweyfrank

Unfortunately, no..................


17 posted on 11/24/2020 11:03:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Democrats cheat. ... It's what they do. ... GUARANTEED! ... Even if it's not necessary!....)
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To: Red Badger

If NASA is turning into a money-sucking, far Left black hole, defund and disband it and let people like Elon Musk do the heavy lifting. They have the money, expertise, and a hunger to do it. They can do it faster and better. Make the government contract for their services, not the other way around.


18 posted on 11/24/2020 11:05:40 AM PST by Viking2002 (When aliens fly past Earth, they probably lock their doors.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

none of this would have occurred without Christ and his followers.

What’s needed is to retake the educational system. History and civics.

here is a repost of mine, you may have seen the first part a while back...

you are right....It’s the extended program of the marxist-muslim alliance
There IS a war on the West and the Judeo Christian faith,
it’s heritage, culture, it’s successes, achievements, accomplishments and progress.
This is but the most recent chapter...

The DNC has adopted the position of the marxist muslim coalition as projected by Carlos the Jackal and others of his time.
Go read Carlos the Jackal for his opinion of how to bring down the west.
He acknowledged that Marxism by itself could not bring down the west , nor could islam; but an alliance, a coalition of the two could. Obama was both a marxist and a muslim... and a lying radical at that.
Libya? Benghazi was all a part of that.

here’s why they want President Trump:

This is what we are witnessing in the blm and antifa movements, they are Hillary’s frontline, brownshirts of her “resistance”
Ever notice how Bill Ayers was aligned with Obama???? Ever notice how Susan Rosenberg is the advisor to the blm??? Susan’s sentence was commuted by Clinton on his last day in office. Both blm and antifa are alive in western nations.
This horseshit was in the pipeline over the last 8 years of Obama as he embedded his players in key government positions. Now, add in some Alynsky... and more Hillary.

Trump got in the way of their program, their “death to America” agenda. It’s still in gear, but Hillary was supposed to win so they could flip America.
Obama , Biden and HRC ++++ had installed an operational totalitarian government.

In their need to protect their agenda, they weaponized all intelligence, CIA, FBI, NSA thereby flexing their muscle using FISA to spy on the competition.... it could have been anyone who tripped the wire, but it ended up being president elect Trump. AND then after that, we saw them try to unseat President Trump afterwards, so we see that many of their deep state efforts are still alive today.
With the media suppression of the Biden corruption scandals we see the media’s complicity in their totalitarian agenda.

The hijacking and destruction of America was well underway .... and many of its loyalists are still fighting to maintain the nefarious obamian “DEATH TO AMERICA” agenda. We saw them active in the election cheat.

Take out America and you take out the hub of western Christian man, his culture , his heritage, his successes, achievements advancements and progress.

IF and when the lights of liberty, rights and freedom go out in America~~~ it will take over a thousand years for the lights of liberty to come back on..
The democrats do not see that, they wish for death, death to America

What’s the choice?

Every success we have~ is founded in the reason we went to the crusades.

It’s the islamaphobia which gave us all our rights, liberty and freedoms in the Magna Carta. This document was created at the height of the crusades. Once we learned we could own property, then we started trading in ideas... thus patent law.... then we had some reformation.... and these were the building blocks that led to the Industrial revolution. Central to this was free speech. New ideas, and debate.
It’s this group of events that gave the advancement the world enjoys today.

Nobody else did this , not the Chinese, not the Indians, not the Africans, not the world of islam. It was Christianity.
Not Christianity from the Eastern Orthodox, due to constant badgering by islam they never had a chance to build.
Not Christianity from Rome, however they did have a minor hand in the process.
But it was a specific group of Christians, those of Great Britain

Communal systems like those in Africa, islam, and marxism NEVER developed the necessary infrastructure necessary to create the ideas that come out of our Magna Carta and patent law.
IT’s because of this that the sciences were expanded.
Originally Great Britain held the reigns, then along came the US of A with more resources, more land, mines ... and the root of more wealth
IT’s because of this that biomeds and every invention you see outside your window came from.
This is the reason for the expansion of the english language
... the reason the word trades in USD
...the reason the language is the language of technology.

All of this came out of “islamophobia”... but as you are well aware, that is a misnomer.
There is a rational reason to fear islam as it is a part of the AntiChristian movement.
Shortened: Antichrist personified.

Yet, some call this white privilege.
You don’t have to be white to believe in Christ!


19 posted on 11/24/2020 11:05:49 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: CA_soon_gone

“I hear a Bidden presidency means the end for NASA.”

NASA is a PIGGY BANK for the Left. They’ll raid and destroy it, and for the thousands of NASA workers who lose their jobs and who voted for Biden because Trump is obnoxious, tough shit - learn to code.


20 posted on 11/24/2020 11:06:48 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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