Somebody's going to leak it to the wider press anyway. Reproduced completely as is from this week's Rocket Report from Ars Technica. Which always arrives in the email before they post it to the website.
German feminists release gender equality rocket design. A German feminist art group has revealed a vulva-shaped spaceship concept, Dezeen architectural magazine reports. The WBF Aeronautics group is encouraging the European Space Agency to help realize this design in order to better represent humanity in space and "restore gender equality to the cosmos." The group created the Vulva Spaceship concept to challenge the convention of, ahem, phallic spacecraft design.
This is not the Onion ... "The project adds another dimension to the representation of humanity in space and is communicating to the world that anyone has a place in the universe, regardless of their genitalia," the organization said. Due to this optimized V-shape, the design guarantees maximum fuel efficiency, the artists said. For the project to be considered by the European Space Agency is needs 500,000 signatures on the change.org website. As of Thursday afternoon, 663 people had signed. (submitted by HoboWhisperer)
I don't believe I've ever seen anything in the Rocket Report that had the statement, "this is not the Onion."
I'm speechless.....
ReplyDeleteWe have crossed the Rubicon.
ReplyDeleteDoes it have a docking port for traditional rockets? Because someone had to ask.
ReplyDeleteWhy do the people rage and plot in vain?...PS2
ReplyDelete"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."
ReplyDelete"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."
If it's not The Onion, could it be the Babylon Bee?
ReplyDeleteSMOD can't arrive too soon.
ReplyDeleteWow. It has nothing to do with aerodynamics and stress...
ReplyDeleteThank you. Your choice to highlight using aquamarine (or whatever color it is called) set against a grey background is very near the dazzle camouflage I had in mind for my boat. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteCould you tell me where you're seeing that? Because I don't see it anywhere.
DeleteI heard a podcast where the Babylon Bee interviewed Musk; apparently he's a huge fan. One interviewer said he was a feminist, and while Musk has made plenty of phallic rockets, when did he plan on making any female-shaped rockets? You know, for equal time? The interviewers were all snickering because this was the first wildly non-serious question. Musk answered, 'well, the principles of aerodynamics and hydrodynamics are similar...'
ReplyDeleteDidn't I see in one of the Right Stuff type movies where after the first docking the pilot said 'virgin no more' with an open mike?
Be interesting to see what happens if that's ever built and is launched. What would Max Q have to say about the design?
ReplyDeleteWe may never know.