LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
You know all those great photos we saw from NASA last week taken by the James Webb Space Telescope?
👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: https://t.co/tlougFWg8B pic.twitter.com/Y7ebmQwT7j
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) July 11, 2022
Yep! They’re now problematic. . .
It’s time to cancel the James Webb Space Telescope:
The excitement around new images of far-off galaxies has reignited calls from some within the scientific and queer communities to rename the James Webb Space Telescope because of Webb’s alleged involvement in past anti-LGTBQ government policies. https://t.co/1QShsMlryo
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 17, 2022
From NBC News:
The excitement around unprecedented new images of far-off galaxies has reignited calls from some within the scientific and queer communities to rename the James Webb Space Telescope because of Webb’s alleged involvement in past anti-LGTBQ government policies in the mid-20th century.
Images from the telescope, a project three decades in the making, were released on Tuesday by NASA. The observatory, which launched into orbit in December 2021, is about the size of a tennis court and can take more detailed images from deeper in space than any equipment of its kind.
NASA has billed the mission as an “Apollo moment,” with the potential to answer probing questions at the frontier of space discovery, including about life on other planets. But the agency has also faced criticism for naming its signature project after former NASA Administrator James Webb, who previously had served as undersecretary of state during the Truman administration, when the federal government systematically purged its ranks of LGBTQ employees.
They just can’t help themselves, can they?
These people are fascists. Treat them accordingly. https://t.co/vGs6boZkFH
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) July 17, 2022
This is reminiscent of the scientist who help land a probe on a comet but was shamed over his alleged sexist shirt:
#Rosetta scientist breaks down in tears as he apologises for 'sexist' shirt http://t.co/oA7mB5TKGf pic.twitter.com/gtyvBsQNlD
— Telegraph Breaking News (@TelegraphNews) November 14, 2014
Bonus: Elon Musk called it early:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2022
Related:
‘Slutshirt shamed’! ‘Feminist bullies’ just made a comet scientist cry over his ‘sexist’ shirt
Why are most of the scientists who just landed a spaceship on a comet male and white?
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