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NASA And The UAE Will Collaborate On A Journey To Mars (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader quotes an article from Gizmodo:
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?
What about gays?
So, basically, NASA just found their Sugar Daddy...
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.
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.
The aggressive program to Mars is from SpaceX, not NASA. Unfortunately NASA is ossified and pupetted by Congress.
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.
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.
"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.