Are women too silly for space?

Question

A secret report commissioned by NASA last year indicates that the astronautical admissions centre is rejecting over 98% of female candidates for being "too silly". The intake of female astronaughts in the last 10 years has ben halved because the top brass who run the space agency have concluded that women are liabilities when it comes to complex space missions. According to the report, most female trainees drop out of the program to go shopping and read feminine magazines and of the handful who make the grade, most jeopardise vital missions when they take too much make-up into orbit.

Although these findings are extremely controversial, Mary Henley, the head of female missions at ESA (the European Space Agency) has gone on record to say that she would rather go to the cinema than to the International Space Station.

Answer 1

The Space Agency needs to recruit women who are satisfied with themselves. And reject the ones who are so damn vain that they believe they need make-up and to look a certain way at all time...
BAN ALL MAKE-UP... end the status quo mentality...

Answer 2

This is ridiculous. We're not talking about women who might be cast in "Legally Blonde 3: Blondes in Space." Astronauts are generally selected from a pool of intelligent, responsible individuals, and go through a rigorous screening process. What your "secret report" fails to recognize is that a equivalent number of men are also rejected from the space program for a variety of reasons, ranging from health issues, psychological red flags, or lack of technical expertise.

As for the astronaut who flipped out last month and went hunting for her boyfriend's other girlfriend, that was regrettable, but she's human -- and so are the folks who hired her at NASA. She was a successful mission commander and a competent scientist on several shuttle missions, and made it through the space program without any problems. Subsequent to that, she developed some psychological and interpersonal issues outside of her work life, and she fell from grace, but she didn't have a panic attack 100 miles above the earth, didn't smash up instruments or send the shuttle into a nose-dive on re-entry, didn't randomly eat experiments or other astronauts, etc. It's like some army general developing Alzheimer's years after retiring and the army brass shaking their heads saying, "See? We should never have hired him." Women are just fine as astronauts; Lisa Nowak is simply a case where her personal life became stunningly public.

Answer 3

First how did you get the information from a "secret report"? This is obviously something to try to make women not to want to become astronauts, it is like when my older sister told me I shouldn't want to be an astronaut because girls had to ride on the outside of the rocket....it is ridiculous that women are "too silly" to be taken serious. I wonder what the rate of males that are turned down has been in the last 10 years.

what does shopping, reading magazines and makeup have to do with being a bad/good astronaut? men shop, read magazines and some even wear makeup and that does not make them bad astronauts....this article (if it is true) is junk....

Answer 4

Myths still spread by second-rate men who can't compete aside, women are just as capable as men.

And the authors of any such so-called "studies" deserve to be fired--after being publicly discredited.

If there is such a study--but I don't believe there is--I think you made this up.

Answer 5

Don't know about women in general, but that one crazy wench who wore a diaper so she wouldn't have to go to the bathroom and could therefore get to her boyfriend's new flame and pepper spray her in record time is DEFINITELY to silly for space.

Answer 6

Aparently they sent a monkey and a woman into space in a rocket. Both had an envelope that read 'do not open until in orbit'. So the rocket gets into orbit and the monkey opens his letter. He reads it and runs about the cockpit pushing buttons and following the instructions. The woman open hers and reads it.............it says 'feed monkey'.

JOKE JOKE. I think women are intelligent. Its just a joke....easy now......breath!! lol

Answer 7

uh.....lies

Answer 8

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!