Re: Hillary's NASA Tweet
Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:03 pm
You could always move to a country where only specific people are allowed to vote.
SolidlyAverage wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 3:02 pm Knowing there are voting idiots who don’t have the intellectual capacity to fact-check very simple, verifiable statements does not, in fact, make me feel any better about anything. It makes me very concerned for my and my children’s’ future.
morgan wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:54 pm Whatever makes you feel better. Us "uneducates" know what a nasty liar she is.
SolidlyAverage wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 2:27 pm This is an excellent example of how uneducated you (and this poster) are!
NASA was founded in 1958, when Clinton was 11. That’s also the year that they first started officially recruiting astronauts, though they didn’t accept any women as candidates for another 20 years (long after the first Soviet female cosmonaut was sent up). It would be really stupid of someone to assume that Clinton couldn’t have written a letter before there was an American astronaut in space, right?
The idea of putting humans into space didn’t suddenly start in 1962, either. Not even in 1958, when official recruitment began. The Space Race started in 1955, pre-NASA, when Clinton was 8. Human space travel was the goal. See, NASA wasn’t the first government organization concerned with space travel, NACA oversaw all of that before it transitioned into a more focused organization and was renamed NASA in response to Sputnik’s successful launch. And both the US and Russia has been strapping animals into rockets with the goal of developing human space travel since the year Clinton was born! We’d been publicly working toward that goal for a long time.
Clinton said she wrote the letter around 1960, when she was 12/13. Yeah, that’s “little girl” to reasonable people. Yes, that’s a couple of years since astronaut recruitment began by an organization named NASA. Yeah, that’s almost two decades before a woman would have been allowed to apply. No, there’s nothing factually wrong with her statement in the least. It’s not even a stretch of the imagination.