Indiana Jones vs Wernher von Braun
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Is that the "let us put ladies on the moon, because those godless soviets would never do that because it's fucking stupid" series? Is it actually not woke? I assumed it was woke because of the entire premise but I've watched the Sea Dragon scene like a hundred times.
Uh, okay. Are you lost?
Note I wrote "moon landing." I'll admit I didn't know the Soviet lady thing, but I'm gonna assume like Gagarin she was more cargo than pilot, and the Apollo moon landings are probably the hardest thing any humans have ever done, and picking the astronauts based on demographics and especially on a demographic that has on average worse everything needed to land on the moon is fucking stupid.
There is a valid reason to use woman, though. Rocket fuel's expensive and women are both shorter and weigh less. The result of using an all woman crew is you can get the same bang for fewer bucks.
Of course, in the real world, human nature prevented it from happening. If it was bad when a man died in a rocket launch gone bad, a woman dying would have been intolerable.
But the Soviets DID beat the Americans with the "first woman" shit. They had the first woman in space. Sally Ride was just the first AMERICAN woman in space.
For that matter, the Soviets put the FIRST EARTHLING in space, and that EARTHLING was not human, and not even a primate.
If people in the 1960s would have been upset by a woman blowing up on a rocket, it would have been because of that sexist old mindset that men are expendable, that only males make up "excess" population of a species.
I specifically said "on the moon." With Apollo era technology you can't politicize the decision; you pick the best or you leave a new crater on the moon.