but you were willing to make a fool out of yourself anyhow.
No you're back-peddling, going from "The Democratic Party" to just some Democrats. I fully acknowledge there will always be individuals who spread hate.
After you back-peddled.
They don't. They see a quote with no content, just as you see my posts as no content. Even your victories are as hollow as the rest of your rhetoric.
Constantly, and about nearly everything. Jerrie Cobb was about making Jerrie Cobb famous and one of her most vocal detractors was Jackie Cochran who was in a position to know what Jerrie was being less than truthful about. Amy Shira Teitel recently authored a book about this piece of history and said that weeding out Jerrie Cobb's fabrications was the hardest part about writing the book. There is a ton of bad information about the Mercury 13 and nearly all of it involves stories originating from Jerrie Cobb.
Documents from the era. The Salon article has some stuff that is true and some stuff that is half true but is presented in a way that doesn't paint an accurate picture. The only one who was tested in the centrifuge before the program was shut down was Jerrie Cobb and she didn't do much better than the 5 G's that Funk passed in the Salon article. For some context, the average male can handle 6 G's before blacking out. The Mercury Seven were subjected up to 16 G's in Project Mercury testing.
Space invaders
Bounced from astronaut training because of their gender, the Mercury 13 get no respect.www.salon.com
Is this article wrong? I can find more. What's your source for saying the women could not pass the centrifuge test?
The point of all this testing was to prepare potential astronauts for “worse-than-worst case” scenarios. In some of these tests the men were subjected to 16 Gs which, “took every bit of strength and technique you could muster to retain consciousness” according to John Glenn
Spinning Out Heroes: The Johnsville Centrifuge | Pennsylvania Center for the Book
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The Redstone rockets were only early testing. It was the Atlas rockets they were worried about. Also, and most people don't know this, but some of the highest G-forces the astronauts were subjected to were on reentry.
...And there was no "proper equipment" for women to allow them to get even to the level of unassisted males. It didn't exist until the 1980's.
It wasn't up to Congress or NASA. The whole programs was Jackie Cochran's personal deal and she cut it off when it became clear women couldn't get anywhere near the 16 G's they were demanding for the Mercury Seven astronauts. The sad part is that a lot of the feminist propaganda about the Mercury 13 paints Jackie Cochran as a villain when she is one of the most accomplished champions of women in aviation and without which none of the so-called Mercury 13 would have happened.
I thought this was a good insightful article. The GOP’s coalition of greedy billionaires, libertarian children, and white Christian nationalist nutcakes, was held together by the Cold War. Since then, they’ve lost the incentive to self moderate and work with the other side of the aisle. This began with Gingrich in the 1994 election and continues today with bobo and MTG. Their authoritarian streak and inability to compromise makes governing increasingly difficult. As they lose support from young people, women, minorities, and just plain normal people, they’re doubling down on the dumb. From banning books and history to abortion. Give it a read:
The Republican Agenda Is One Bad Idea After Another
Republicans succeeded in getting Roe v. Wade overturned, and it cost them electorally. So, naturally, they turned to the also very unpopular ideas of loosening child labor laws, allowing for more guns, and banning books.www.vanityfair.com
www.nbcnews.com
They just don't want a great America. Again.‘MAGA movement’ widely unpopular, new poll finds
Just 24% of Americans surveyed have positive views of the Make America Great Again movement in a new national NBC News poll.
Cochran's not one of the Mercury 13.
Perhaps the initiative had several starts and stops, because it was still going during the 1962 hearings, when Cochran testified against it. According to Teitel's book, the program was stopped because the Navy refused access to testing facilities in Pensacola.
Both of these systems were extensively redesigned for use in Mercury/Gemini.
They took Alan Shepard on the first suborbital flight.
Much like there was no military jet training for women. There could have been, but no decision was made to include them.
There was no point to the program if Congress and NASA were not going to allow female astronauts.
There was only one start and that was when Cochran got her husband to pay for starting it up. Cochran shut it down when it became clear women could not get close to the 16 G's that Project Mercury was demanding of the Mercury Seven. When Cochran pulled the plug, Jerrie Cobb tried to keep it going and spearheaded the effort to get Congress to pay for it but it wasn't "still going" after Cochran shut it down. As for the Navy refusing access to testing facilities in Pensacola, yes that was the end. The refusing of the access to the testing facilities took place after Jerrie Cobb failed in the centrifuge testing there at Pensacola. Her claims that she was at Pensacola in the centrifuge weren't untrue. Jerrie Cobb was there and documents survive from that time.
This is true. They also launched the first American satellite into orbit, and they served as the template for the Saturn I rocket. The problem for America was the Redstone were Nazi V2 rockets made by Nazis they acquired in Operation Paperclip, and America didn't really want those rockets leading the charge. America could have had the first satellite in orbit, beating Sputnik, but they instructed Wernher von Braun's group to not launch and instead gave the go-ahead to our domestically developed Vanguard rocket. It failed in a spectacular fireball with the Vanguard satellite that was supposed to be the first satellite ever. Then the Soviets got Sputnik in orbit, and then Americans gave von Braun the green light to use the Nazi rocket to get America's Explorer I satellite into orbit.
This too is not untrue but the creation of the women-specific G-suits in the 1980's wasn't a trivial undertaking and even today with nearly half a century of advancement we still don't have G-suits for women that will get them to the 16 G's required of the Mercury Seven. The spacecraft we have now just aren't as nasty and our astronauts no longer need to endure what the Mercury Seven astronauts did.
Yep. Good find. As the GOP tent continues to shrink, the fascists, kooks, racists, and gun nuts will become an even louder vocal minority within the party. I hope we see a blowout in 2024. A devastating loss is what’s needed to allow this current version of the GOP to die and begin a new more stable and sane conservative Party to arise.‘MAGA movement’ widely unpopular, new poll finds
Just 24% of Americans surveyed have positive views of the Make America Great Again movement in a new national NBC News poll.
Democrats have delivered on many of their promises before. Why wouldn’t they be able to do it again? Especially if they retake the House and build on the Senate (that’s a real problem)?
Worry not. Democrats aren't running on "hope". They are running on Trump. Their campaign will be single issue: Trump. Take a look at Biden's election announcement video. It has more Trump than the guy who is announcing his candidacy. As The Thriller put it "they’re a terrific alternative to..." That is what the Democrats are running on. This election campaign is going to be January 6th, and Trump rape allegations, and Trump criminal indictments, and Trump, and Trump, and Trump. The Democrats seem to believe that even a corpse could beat Trump in a general election and so that is the election to be featured in Democrat messaging.
They haven't delivered on their promises anymore than the Republicans have. Hope is a stupid thing for a corrupt political party to run on.
