We need to talk about how important it is that parasitic would-be mandarins like the people in this article must under no circumstances be allowed to influence the most important human endeavor of the next hundred years. I spit on them. nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/1…
"Even if words like “colonization” have a different context off-world, on somewhere like Mars, it’s still not OK to use those narratives, because it erases the history of colonization here on our own planet."
Fuck you, fuck your superstitious jabbering, fuck you.
Fuck you, fuck your superstitious jabbering, fuck you.
When the "Chair of Astrobiology at the U.S. Library of Congress" sees her job as indistinguishable from that of an Assistant Facilitator for Student Diversity & Inclusion at a community college, we're way past entryism and into theocracy. 
This woman is an astronomer. She could be contributing to getting humanity into space herself -- SpaceX's president is a woman and has been for years -- Instead, her priority is to lie and demand the people doing the work submit to her bizarre cult dictates. She is despicable.
