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NASA And The UAE Will Collaborate On A Journey To Mars (gizmodo.com)
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The United States and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced an agreement Sunday that would allow the two nations to collaborate on matters of space and aeronautics research, including the potential journey to Mars... "NASA is leading an ambitious journey to Mars that includes partnerships with the private sector and many international partners," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. "I am confident this new framework agreement with the UAE Space Agency will help advance this journey."
Bolden recently wrote on his blog that "Every single nation can play a part in our journey to Mars, in our scientific journey of discovery and in the next phase of humanity's development as a spacefaring people." UAE Space Agency Chairman Dr. Khalifa Al Romaithi added today that "we believe that working alongside international partners is the best way to accelerate the development of space technologies and the space sector within the UAE." Vice notes that the UAE has had a small "presence" in outer space for about 30 years, and had been working on becoming the first Arab Islamic country to send an unmanned probe to Mars.
Bolden recently wrote on his blog that "Every single nation can play a part in our journey to Mars, in our scientific journey of discovery and in the next phase of humanity's development as a spacefaring people." UAE Space Agency Chairman Dr. Khalifa Al Romaithi added today that "we believe that working alongside international partners is the best way to accelerate the development of space technologies and the space sector within the UAE." Vice notes that the UAE has had a small "presence" in outer space for about 30 years, and had been working on becoming the first Arab Islamic country to send an unmanned probe to Mars.
Will women be banned or will nasa force the UAE to be more open?
UAE will want to keep it until you paid off your traveling expenses
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some knob complains that slashdot hates gays because it isn't covering orlando.
Well, you give us a pretty good reason to.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
No, but they will be limited to serving the men and will make sure the ship is pointed to Mecca at all times.
What about gays?
So, basically, NASA just found their Sugar Daddy...
Remember when Dubai had to rename what they intended to name "Burj Dubai" into "Burj Khalifa"? That was because at some point, financing this big pointy status symbol became difficult to finance for Dubai. For the small favor of renaming the tower, the UAE helped to fill in the budget holes. Now when NASA will compete for budget with the building of the wall at the Mexican border, UAE helping to finance the Mars voyage will certainly also come at some price...
As lon as women have the same rights as men, it's totally fine. If not, your religion is shit and your prophet a goat.
The only reason? Really? Not because religious nuts and gay nightclubs have nothing to do with "News for Nerds"? Why are you here?
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I thought they were going to use an Amiga emulator to go to Mars!!!
Western nations need to recognize that they are not alone in the world and they should treat foreign cultures with the dignity and respect they expect to be treated with.
what, so islamic nations want respect from women & gay people that they dont give back? give me a break. we only offer some freedoms - one freedom we dont allow here in the west is to restrict the rights of others. you dont get to play the 'give me tolerance so i can be intolerant' card.
get that through your head, then you will be less confused.
So can people finally admit that the goal of putting humans on Mars is akin to the UAE's creation of giant artificial pleasure islands of meaningless shape at the cost of many human lives? Just rich people wasting their money?
They are usually thrown off building roofs but it might be acceptable to drop them from the stratosphere. There is no exact rule on this and no scholar ruling that I'm aware.
Your type still exist in this world !?
What about gays?
Stoned to death
You are intolerant towards the islamic religion.
Actually it is Islam that is intolerant towards all other religions.
If you're a muslim and later in life want to convert to another religion, see what your sacred book says about it.
It ain't nice.
Christianity is about tolerance. Islamism is about conquest. From the Islamic point of view the only good christians, or jews, or budhists are the dead ones.
The UAE doesn't need any help from the USA to do this. Americans have turned their backs on scientific progress and space exploration. Let them rot on the Earth-That-Was.
Islamic countries are still in the middle ages. Maybe, maybe in several centuries you'll have an enlightement period and then you will be able to join the rest of the modern world.
I imagine they're just going to contribute a bunch of slave labor.
Really, this is the best international collaboration you could announce?
They are usually thrown off building roofs but it might be acceptable to drop them from the stratosphere. There is no exact rule on this and no scholar ruling that I'm aware.
Fortunately, when you throw a person off a building in space, nothing happens.
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Asteroided to death?
The aggressive program to Mars is from SpaceX, not NASA. Unfortunately NASA is ossified and pupetted by Congress.
when he said his job description included outreach to the Muslim world?
Seriously. Why the fuck should NASA be sucking up to guys who were half a notch below 'desert savages' fifty years ago when we were already in space. There is no good explanation for this. It's either an act of gutless PC to make good on the 'promise' of Muslim outreach or its whoring out what are supposed to be our best and brightest to some tin-pot dictator in the desert.
I thought Bolden was an idiot from day one. Now I have incontrovertible proof.
Usually people wipe their asses with silk because it's like cursing in French. What's up with the water bottles?
Fuck you, follower of a pedophile prophet, and your imaginary sky friend as well. You contribute nothing to a modern world, only examples to show students of history how the great Arab scholars of old were replaced by hooded savages.
"In 2008, an Australian woman said she was jailed for eight months after reporting that she was gang-raped at a hotel in the United Arab Emirates. In 2013, a Norwegian woman who reported being raped in Dubai received a 16-month sentence for having sex outside of marriage, though she was pardoned and allowed to leave the country."
Such a progressive country! She was locked up until the Australian government and US strongly suggested she be let go.
o.0 Seriously? SpaceX has produced nothing Mars related to date but hot air and stroke material for the fanboys. The only concrete result has been an increase in demand for tissue paper.
Meanwhile, NASA has actual functioning spacecraft in orbit around Mars, and actual functioning rovers on the surface of Mars. They're bending metal on the next generation, and planning the generation after that.
Summary and TFA says "UAE has had a small "presence" in outer space for about 30 years". The source is a link to spacesafetymagazine.com, which tells about the UAE first satellite launched in 2009, which does not make 30 years.
Same article notes UAE space agency was created in the 1990s, hence we should probably read "UAE has been engaging space activities for 30 years".
Women will be allowed for reproductive and entertainment purposes but will not be issued driving licenses. Caught driving a car, they will be be-headed! It Is Written!
Ha ha ha ha
I'm assuming that in 600 years or so the Tyrant will finally murder these guys.
All over CT iron. Who would have thought.
Mary was between 14 & 17 when she conceived Jesus....apparently all deities like 'em young.
... or maybe NASA has built very big V8 rocket engine. UAE has agreed to build petrol stations along the way...
The UAE is not to be confused with Saudi Arabia. The two are neighbours but they can hardly be more different. The best engineers in my UAE team are women.
"you dont[sic] get to play the 'give me tolerance so i can be intolerant' card."
Sure you do, it's the current predominant meme.
Just ask Brendan Eich. After society became tolerant of gays, the gay community was not magnanimous, rewarding tolerance with tolerance, - it went after Eich and got him fired from his job over his political beliefs (which were the same political beliefs both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama campaigned on when running for president in 2008. The community made it known that anybody opposed would be driven from the public square, lose his job, his business, etc. The idea of tolerance was only camouflage for flipping WHO would be discriminated against, inverting the nation's moral sense rather than broadening it.
Supporters of the attack on Eich will, of course, say "but HE was the one being intolerant!".... which only makes the point: Most people who worship at the altar of "tolerance" are actually talking about the opposite; they are only tolerant of the things they personally agree with and THAT is NOT tolerance at all. They demand that everyone tolerate them, but the do not tolerate everybody else, so we are really only arguing about WHOSE standards apply.
The person you were responding to will clearly see through this and know that your rather confused defense of the West is not a defense of the West at all. You are pretending that a defect of the (recent) west is a selling point when it's just a veneer of dishonesty applied to a mountain of increasingly dysfunctional and self-contradictory political correctness.
Christians in America are always accused of wanting to turn the clock back to the 1950s, when intact two-parent heterosexual families with a couple of kids a house a car and a dog were the norm and most women were stay-at-home housewives.
Muslims are often accused of trying to turn the calendar back to the seventh century.
The modern "progressive" left, however, has been working furiously to turn the calendar back to the year ZERO... seven centuries back before even Islam, to a time that allowed homosexuality, polygamy, bestiality, pedophelia, child sacrifice, etc. Modern leftists despise the influences of the past 2K years of Christianity on society and have spent the past 40 years scrubbing as much of it from the public square as possible and pretending that those 2K years of increasing civilization either never happened or were bad. There's nothing new about paganism, or "tolerance" for homosexuality or bisexuality or cross-dressing or "man-boy love" or "sister wives" or incest between consenting adults, or sacrificing you child for convenience or to avoid embarrassment or because the child might have medical issues or because you cannot afford it; these were the same reasons people were throwing their children into the fires of Baal in ancient times.
The Emirates has sections of its society cordoned off for the non-Muslim foreigners that they need in order to become a modern state, since no purely Muslim state has achieved that feat. Otherwise, the local Emirati population ain't that different from Saudi Arabia. All the Arabian countries (meaning the Arabian peninsula) are theocratic monarchies (republic in case of Yemen), with the possible exception of Oman. And all their people are equally backward believers in allah uber alles
In June of 2010 Obama's NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden went on Al Jazeera TV and stated that Obama had given him three goals as administrator of the space agency that one put men on the moon:
1. Inspire children to study math and science
2. Expand our international relationships
3. "Third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and, ah, engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations, ah, to help them, ah, feel good about their historic contribution to science and engineering"
More astute readers will note that Obama charged Charlie with NOTHING related to putting Americans in space, going mack to the moon, going to an asteroid, going to Mars, etc. At the time he was vetting charlie for the Job, Obama was working to end US Manned spaceflight as he had promised the teachers unions he would do while on the campaign trail in 2007. His actual official campaign plan for NASA (still available online) was right there for anybody to read, even though he counted on geeks/nerds/etc to ignore documents and just get on the waves of "hope and change" hype and campaign happy talk about STEM. Obama's 2010 NASA budget eliminated all funding for the Shuttle program, the Constellation program for got back to the moon and on to Mars, put a finite end-date for ISS, funded the destruction and/or mothballing of numerous NASA facilities and vehicles, etc and caused such a panic in a bitterly partisan congress that nearly the only bi-partisan act of that congress was the defeat of Obama's NASA budget.
In 2007 before the campaign for the White House was in full swing, Obama had already promised one of the core constituencies of his party (unionized school teachers) that he would take five years of funding from NASA and put it into their schools (not for any specific new construction plans or anything, just into the slush-fund - thereby effectively just helping states fund their pension plans). Such a multi-year de-funding of a government agency like NASA would have eliminated a wide swath of the most-talented/experienced personnel, put systems into unmaintained conditions, and introduced an issue liberals in the Democrat party had been trying to achieve since Walter Mondale nearly succeeded in the aftermath of the 1967 Apollo 1 fire: putting the idea before congress of shutting NASA down as unnecessary and shifting all its funds to schools and social programs. Oh, and remember that without NASA running ISS, there would be no need for NASA to pay SpaceX to haul cargo and crew to it, and therefore SpaceX would have failed, no matter how much pro-SpaceX happy-talk Obama sycophants spout. Unfortunately, people in the tech community think of themselves as so smart and well-educated that they can be really fundamentally stupid.
And there's a Dutch woman in jail in Qatar right now, after having gone to the police to report that she had been raped. Meanwhile the female friend she was traveling with is missing, which seems to confirm that this was not just a case of some women getting drunk and doing something they regretted later.
At least the rapist is in jail too, at least for now. But the authorities very helpfully proposed that if she married him, they could both get out of jail.
And we are supposed to be tolerant of those retards?
As you Muslims are teaching us, so -called "freedom of religion" is a bad idea, which is long overdue to die. Freedom of religion made sense after the Wars of Religion, where the participants were fully paid-up members of the human race and actually had morals, empathy and conscience.
Freedom has limits and must not be abused. Enjoy your "freedom" while it lasts, because the civilised world will soon decide that it can live without it.
The US, yes, I can understand that, but UAE? It is a tiny nation - if you fart and spit at the same time, you risk breaching border security in two places at the same time.
Obviously she is at fault for letting the man rape her.
Just like a 12 year old girl in Morocco who opened the door when her neighbour asked for a cup of sugar. It must be her fault that he raped her. Marrying him was the only honorable solution.
We must all believe the koran. It says it is the truth.
Does it matter? The spacecraft called Eagle that landed on the moon was build by Grumman in New York State and not next to the launch pad by NASA themselves. Why should they change now to doing everything internally when they didn't do that at their peak?
Although some might view this as a very provocative statement, I personally feel this couldn't be more to the point. We don't need to find issues with this deal in tiny details when there's something as big of an issue as whether women can participate in the mission as full-fledged crew members. I don't see anything good in this deal. Oppressive governments simply shouldn't be allowed to participate.
Except spin endlessly in space until they fall into a gravity well and crash into something after being dead for tens of thousands of years.
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Seems the only way to have them virgin.
If there's anything a fledgling Mars colony struggling every day just to produce air, water and food needs, it's Jihadists.
14 is one thing. 8 is something else entirely.
Define "space exploration". It seems you are implying people should be physically tumbling around a complete vacuum for some reason.
We are taking pictures and measurements just fine from our office chairs and sending automatic boxes on wheels to Mars.
It's fine.
I don't see where this "rot" or "earth that was" (?) comes from. Too much sci-fi perhaps? Misanthropy? You sound like an old religious man screamign about gays.
While not all of Islam is extremist, it seems prudent to be sure we keep those dangerous, ignorant jihadists from (ultimately) hurting mankind's scientific endeavors. This goes for ANY extremist religion or belief system (that is not based in real facts). It boggles the mind to ponder that mankind has gotten so far with science and technology yet still has perhaps half of our population stuck in ignorant (as in uneducated and narcissistic) beliefs; which hurt our civilization.
Self-importance and self-indulgence is the root of ALL evil.
why not have a few folks that live in deserts??
and will make sure the ship is pointed to Mecca at all times.
Interesting thought. Exactly how could you face Mecca say halfway to Mars. What if during the time of prayer Mecca is on the other side of the planet in relation to the space crafts point in space?
Just a thought in spacetime.