Up now on my eBay! Various indie and small press comics from 1990-2000! Buffy the Vampire Slayer by Andi Watson, Betty Page Captured Jungle Girl 3-D, Deja Vu by Richard Moore and Dusty Star by Joe Pruett & Anthony Robinson! Also up for grabs: my superheroine comic collection (70’s-80’s stuff), random Radio Comix books and various indie comics! My house is super small, and I am still selling off thirty years’ worth of collectibles to raise money for ongoing back taxes & various upcoming large expenses, so every little bit helps. Thanks for looking & sharing!
Nothing is more suitable to philosophy than a modest skepticism to a certain degree, and a fair confession of ignorance in subjects that exceed all human capacity.
NASA will honor the first class of astronaut candidates to graduate under the Artemis program at 10:30 a.m. EST Friday, Jan. 10, at our Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Out of a record 18,000 applicants, the 11 new astronauts, alongside two from the Canadian Space Agency, have completed two years of training and are now eligible for spaceflight. One day they could embark on missions to the International Space Station, the Moon and even Mars.
Here are five of the training criteria they had to check off to graduate from astronaut candidate to astronaut:
1. Piloting T-38 Jets
Astronauts have been training in T-38 jets since 1957 because the sleek, white jets require crew members to think quickly in dynamic situations and to make decisions that have real consequences. This type of mental experience is critical to preparing for the rigors of spaceflight. It also familiarizes astronaut candidates with checklists and procedures. To check off this training criteria, candidates must be able to safely operate in the T-38 as either a pilot or back seater.
2. Knowing International Space Station Systems
We are currently flying astronauts to the International Space Station every few months. Astronauts aboard the space station are conducting experiments benefiting humanity on Earth and teaching us how to live longer in space. Astronaut candidates learn to operate and maintain the complex systems aboard the space station as part of their basic training.
3. Conducting Spacewalks
Spacewalks are the hardest thing, physically and mentally, that astronauts do. Astronaut candidates must demonstrate the skills to complete complex spacewalks in our Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (giant pool used to simulate weightlessness). In order to do so, they will train on the life support systems within the spacesuit, how to handle emergency situations that can arise and how to work effectively as a team to repair the many critical systems aboard the International Space Station to keep it functioning as our science laboratory in space.
4. Operating Robotics
Astronaut candidates learn the coordinate systems, terminology and how to operate the space station’s two robotic arms called Canadarm2 and Dextre. They train in Canada for a two-week session where they develop more complex robotics skills including capturing visiting cargo vehicles with the arm. The arm, built by the Canadian Space Agency, is capable of handling large cargo and hardware and it helped build the entire space station. It has latches on either end, allowing it to be moved by both flight controllers on the ground and astronauts in space to various parts of the station.
5. Learning Russian Language
The official languages of the International Space Station are English and Russian. All crew members – regardless of what country they come from – are required to know both. NASA astronauts train with their Russian crew mates so it makes sense that they should be able to speak Russian. Astronaut candidates start learning the language at the beginning of their training and train every week, as their schedule allows.
Step 2: Say if you’re poor it’s unethical to have kids
Step 3: Blame climate change on overpopulation and not overconsumption
Step 4: Make having children a luxury by cultural standards
Step 5: Strip away social welfare programs, and justify it by saying the poor shouldn’t have children anyway
Step 6: Watch as eugenics is culturally accepted.
yall could be out here demanding more from capitalists and unionizing but instead you’re yelling at poor people, and ultimately yourself, for having kids… sad…
yall would rather strip away reproductive rights from the poor than admit the capitalists are fucking murdering us.
you can’t say you care about reproductive rights if you don’t care about EVERYONE’S reproductive rights
THANK YOU.
I’ll say it again!!!!
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS BELONG TO THE POOR !!!!
Support poor people’s decision to safely raise their children instead of adversely punishing them because you hate the poor so much you’d rather see that child suffer than help out someone struggling.
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