seriesofnonsequiturs:

notsoterriblymisanthropic:

sewersocialist:

talesfrominceland:

or maybe it’s because space agencies don’t get proper funding now that the Cold War is over 🤔

imagine thinking that women and black people didn’t work for nasa in 1969 and simultaneously thinking that you belong to a group with higher intelligence than the thousand female & often black mathematicians & engineers who successfully worked out the necessary calculations & software necessary for a ship travelling from the earth to the moon because you read posts on reddit and jerk off to cartoons

BTW, if you’re interested in the women who were central to the early years of studying space, this is a good book review/sounds like a good book: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v39/n19/rivka-galchen/pickering-called

Gonna add these ladies a second time with names: 

Go watch hidden figures!! how did you miss one of the biggest movies of the year

And that’s not even to mention Ada Lovelace, who wrote the first line of computer code before there were even computers

educate yourself