West Wing becomes reality.

[Hermit]

Looks like the meds are working already!

Glad to hear it.



I'll be opening one of these ^^^ myself in about an hour or so.

[pErvinalia]

I was talking about your meds..

[Forty Two]

Every map i've seen of the moon distorts the size of Cassini crater, and reduces the size of Mare Tranquilitatus, such that people think Cassini crater is so much cooler than Mare Tranquilitatus.....

When I looked at a globe of the moon, I couldn't believe what I was looking at. It was a different Moon!

[pErvinalia]

Are you telling me that Jupiter's spot is bigger than it appears?!?

[Forty Two]

Are you telling me that Jupiter's spot is bigger than it appears?!?

The flat maps of Jupiter privileges the red spot over other spots.

It's all very misogynistic. The spot is a raging storm of giant proportions, symbolizing toxic masculinity. Exaggerating its size is to privilege the toxic masculinity over other, more gentle, more feminine parts of Jupiter. Astronomy is sexist.

It's true. It's true. You think I'm being Poe on this. But, feminists have explained many times already how even the constellations are sexist, with men portrayed as heroes, while women are portrayed as nurturers or monsters. Males can look at the sky and find uplifting role models, while women look at the sky and find only oppression and humiliation.

Even spacecraft with seemingly gender-neutral names are coded male: Voyager and Pioneer evoke the men who heroically left home and hearth on voyages of exploration. The Saturn V rocket. The Atlas rocket. Apollo. Mercury. Gemini (Castor and Pollux).

If there is anything that is sexist, it's astronomy. Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune...and even Pluto...all male. Only Venus (of course the "hottest" planet, a euphemism for male entitlement to "hot" female bodies) and "Mother" Earth (a nod to traditional gender roles of women serving as baby-factories and mothers...) are named for females, and those two exceptions prove the patriarchal rule.

Fuck, in Astronomy there is even a gender-telescope gap, where women are disproportionately under represented in telescope-time (time allocated to use the giant telescopes around the globe.

[pErvinalia]

Rockets are phallic symbols..

[Forty Two]

Now you're getting it. It's all patriarchy man. That's what it's all about!

The male patriarchal scientists create penises to penetrate the heavens.

[Woodbutcher]

Now you're getting it. It's all patriarchy man. That's what it's all about!

The male patriarchal scientists create penises to penetrate the heavens.

So the rocket penises keep ejaculating astronauts as sperm into the ISS. One of these days ISS becomes pregnant, and after a proper gestation period gives birth to a...what?

[Forty Two]

You transphobe!

It gives birth to a life form, and what lifeform ultimately identifies as is up to it to determine.