Feb 17, 2009: You Go Girl...

Ralph Kramden said, "Pow, to the moon, Alice, to the moon".
America laughed at the preposterous notion that Alice, or anyone, could go to the moon... in 1955.

Fast forward a couple of years and JFK said, to the moon America, to the moon. So we sent men into space and then women too.
Now, there's a woman on the International Space Station named Sandra Magnus, and she wants more women in space.

More than 120 Girl Scouts from the River Bluffs Council in Illinois got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to talk to an astronaut orbiting the Earth on the International Space Station on Jan. 29, thanks in part to Boeing.
The event, to teach Scouts about space, science and technology, was held at Boeing St. Louis facilities, started with a view of Houston’s Space Center, and a team of NASA specialists who connected the astronaut, Sandra Magnus, via satellite to Boeing.

She then emphasized the importance of studying science and math, and encouraged the girls telling them: "You can do whatever you put your mind to.
"I was about your age when I decided to be an astronaut and I didn’t really think I had a chance; I was in a small town growing up, and it seemed like something that only other people got to do, and I never even thought that it might be possible," Magnus told the Girl Scouts.
"But I decided to try, because I didn’t want to look back on my life and ask myself the question, ’What if?
What if I only would have tried that, would it have been possible if I just would have tried it?’ And so I decided to try, and lo and behold, it’s possible.
So I want you guys to remember that, I want you to believe in yourselves, I want you to find out what your dream is, and I want you to pursue it. Because it is possible."

You go girl! :thumb2:

And they all look at her hair and think, "NO WAY!"

It's useless to get these kids' hopes up. In space, no one can hear you dream. :)

nice hair, I guess that's what happens when you wiz around the world at 17,000 miles per hour.

The space station is in a Low Earth Orbit and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye; it orbits at an altitude of approximately 350 km (190 nautical miles) above the surface of the Earth,[4][5][6] and travels at an average speed of 27,700 kilometres (17,210 mi) per hour, completing 15.7 orbits per day.[4]

Baths in space give you an instant perm!

SPUCK;535495 wrote:

And they all look at her hair and think, "NO WAY!"

so, to girls, hair is more important than anything? I know it was tossed off in jest, but that is still a very sexist remark.

But isn't the whole event sexist?

TheMercenary;535520 wrote:

nice hair, I guess that's what happens when you wiz around the world at 17,000 miles per hour.

Is that anything like pissing in the wind?:rolleyes:

You go, girls! :)

Cloud;535525 wrote:

so, to girls, hair is more important than anything? I know it was tossed off in jest, but that is still a very sexist remark.

Yeah. Chicks hate that!


(goin' to hell with 12 broken bones for THAT one) :-)

So... Don King was the first Black guy in space?

Maybe we got it all wrong with those punk kids in the 80's and their spiked mohawks. Maybe they were just hoping to be astronauts.

Cloud wrote:

I know it was tossed off in jest, but that is still a very sexist remark.

Well since the sexism flame war has already been started, I'd like to go ahead and toss in some fuel: how does zero-gravity affect menstruation?

Clodfobble;535600 wrote:

Well since the sexism flame war has already been started, I'd like to go ahead and toss in some fuel: how does zero-gravity affect menstruation?

If I recall, it affects it negatively.

Or, maybe that was the tequila...

anyhoo---what sexist remark? Hair, ladies and gentlemen, is everything; unless you are Sheldon and are sexy in your own right without need for props.

Of course now Sheldon will remind me that he is gay. I know, Sheldon, I KNOW.

Brianna;535604 wrote:

If I recall, it affects it negatively.

Or, maybe that was the tequila...

anyhoo---what sexist remark? Hair, ladies and gentlemen, is everything; unless you are Sheldon and are sexy in your own right without need for props.

Of course now Sheldon will remind me that he is gay. I know, Sheldon, I KNOW.

[COLOR="Blue"]GAY!!!![/COLOR]

Clodfobble;535600 wrote:

Well since the sexism flame war has already been started, I'd like to go ahead and toss in some fuel: how does zero-gravity affect menstruation?

Well for one thing, instead of tampons, they need nose plugs.

Brianna;535604 wrote:

Of course now Sheldon will remind me that he is gay. I know, Sheldon, I KNOW.

Sheldonrs;535607 wrote:

[COLOR="Blue"]GAY!!!![/COLOR]

And this post didn't tip you off earlier?

Sheldonrs;535508 wrote:

It's useless to get these kids' hopes up. In space, no one can hear you[COLOR="Blue"] ream[/COLOR]. :)

Gravdigr;535530 wrote:

Is that anything like pissing in the wind?:rolleyes:

That might be messy, no matter what position she is in. LOL.

Shawnee123;535610 wrote:

And this post didn't tip you off earlier?

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs
It's useless to get these kids' hopes up. In space, no one can hear you ream.

:eek:

Sheldonrs;535632 wrote:

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs
It's useless to get these kids' hopes up. In space, no one can hear you ream.

:eek:

Aww Shel, don't tell me with everything you've ever said here, that I stepped over a line? :rolleyes:

no

Crap...lmao

SPUCK;535495 wrote:

And they all look at her hair and think, "NO WAY!"

Cloud;535525 wrote:

so, to girls, hair is more important than anything? I know it was tossed off in jest, but that is still a very sexist remark.

I thought it was about the attitude of teenagers in general, although a hair comment is more specific to girls.

In my experience, teens will focus on the least important detail in order to dismiss something as "completely lame". Prejudiced? Yes. But so much humour relies on that.

That's why it made me laugh, anyway.

Sirensong12;535633 wrote:

Aww Shel, don't tell me with everything you've ever said here, that I stepped over a line? :rolleyes:

Nope. I was just shocked that you thought nobody could hear me ream. ;)

That's because you forgot to turn the space radio on.

"Houston, can you hear me? Houston, we have a, a, ah, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh..."

Sheldonrs;535673 wrote:

Nope. I was just shocked that you thought nobody could hear me ream. ;)

I thought that scream was debris from the destroyed satellite. It was your bf. :D

So...are people going to be fucking in space, or what?

Shouldn't the astronauts be given memberships in The Cellar so that they can share their risque pics with us?

How do you know I'm not an astronaut? Hm?

;)

Elspode;535692 wrote:

So...are people going to be fucking in space, or what?

Shouldn't the astronauts be given memberships in The Cellar so that they can share their risque pics with us?

I am thinking that experiment has been already done.

You know why NASA has never sent a woman to the moon?


The moon doesn't need cleaning.


:bolt:

But it does.

I won't be that astronaut though. Cleaning is boring. ;)

Shawnee123;535694 wrote:

How do you know I'm not an astronaut? Hm?

;)

I thought you were a space cadet?

SPUCK;535495 wrote:

And they all look at her hair and think, "NO WAY!"

Cloud;535525 wrote:

so, to girls, hair is more important than anything? I know it was tossed off in jest, but that is still a very sexist remark.

No it isn't. you're the one who inferred that they would think it because they were girls rather than for any other reason (like being young and superficial)

monster;535738 wrote:

I thought you were a space cadet?

Well yeah, duh. (twirls hair and sneers)

:lol2: Sheldon you crack my crack up.

TheMercenary;535750 wrote:

:lol2: Sheldon you crack my crack up.

Someday I hope to crack you open. ;-)