Will the Earth's Tail Fry Moon Visitors?

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers working for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission have discovered that the Earth's magnetic tail could be harmful to future astronauts. The moon stays inside Earth's 'magnetotail' for six days every month — during full moon. This can have consequences ranging from lunar 'dust storms' to strong electrostatic discharges, according to one researcher quoted by NASA in 'The Moon and the Magnetotail.' So far, this is pure speculation: no man has been on the moon when the magnetotail hits. As added the same scientist, 'Apollo astronauts never landed on a full moon and they never experienced the magnetotail.' But read more for additional details about how Earth's magnetotail could affect men on the moon."

Re:All I know

[that IT girl]

Oh, that's nasty D:

Re:Fix from article

[Anonymous Coward]

"So far, this is pure speculation: no man has been on the moon" Fixed.

One reply seemed to take this seriously, not as a joke, so I'll bite too.

To believe that the moon landing never happened as per Fox documentary (oxymoron?) you would have to..

.. believe that Soviet and China was in on the conspiracy, at the height of the cold war when this was a major blow to them. They could easily have disproved a fake moon landing, and choose to let US revel in glory instead..?

.. believe that all the actual moon rock available to scientists and universities is... what?

That's just two Occams Razor points, not going into NASAs rebuttals [nasa.gov] against the so called photo evidence.

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[McGiraf]

lol, interesting? wtf? Oh, and by the way, the earth is flat. Yup, seriously.

Re:All I know

[Anonymous Coward]

It's called "being able to take a joke"

Where is the humor in

who said you could leave the kitchen? Go make me a sandwich sweetie."

or

She works in IT. She dosen't make sandwiches, she makes the coffee, you insensitive clod!

I see plenty of misogyny and fear, but no humor. Do you also crack jokes based on race or disability? Well, what's the difference?

I assure you that the men in my company are picked on much, much more than the women are

You reveal your own sexism with this weak attempt at justification. (Incidentally, this fact is much funnier than your stupid joke).

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[Anonymous Coward]

It's funny to me because it's so ignorant and out of step with the times. (I've known guys who thought like this; but that's not funny, it's sad.)

Of course if the poster really feels that way then it is misogyny! :)

Also, I can believe the statement about men teasing each other much more than they'd tease a woman, because the threat of harrassment is more prevalent been two people of different gender. IMO.

Re:All I know

[Anonymous Coward]

The interesting thing is that, before we replaced the job with machines, computation and computer science was dominated by women. It was one of those few "acceptable careers."

Maybe it's just that I pay more attention to this area more than others, but it seems like IT in general is an unfriendly place to be. It's fairly elitist in almost every aspect. This is the same complaint of a lot of people moving to linux, women in the industry, and foreigners in the US. There's very much a "who let /you/ in here?" attitude.

Then again, it seems like the people who are genuinely exclusionary are a very small minority; as it's been stated elsewhere, the status quo is very harsh amongst itself. It makes for a stressful situation for most normal people: If I say this to be friendly, will she perceive it as inappropriate? If I say this to rib her, will she take it as hostile? If I don't say anything, will she take it as exclusion? But on the other side: Was he trying to be mean or funny? Is he an awkward person is it because I'm a woman? Is he being friendly or flirty?

We've all become so self-conscious about what is a real problem, but which has come to dominate so many professional relationships, especially towards introduction. We all need to get over it, but it's the most extreme cases (genuine bigotry or oversensitivity) that hold us all back.

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[Jarjarthejedi]

I find it quite amusing personally. Perhaps if you were more secure in the fact that Women can be incredible engineers and supremely intelligent people, and not just foodmakers, you'd be able to get the joke as well.

Poking fun at stereotypes is only amusing to people who aren't racist or sexist. To those who are it tends to seem offensive. I'm perfectly willing to crack disability jokes, if the person I'm talking to knows I'm kidding and won't be offended. Same goes with racist jokes (me and my friends have an ongoing joke about the token black person who appears in many movies and games which we find funny and non-offensive but I'm sure you would think is racist).

You reveal your own sexism by not being able to accept the fact that the stereotypical woman homemaker isn't the common case anymore, and that it's therefore open for jokes along with all other past stereotypes (for a good example of funny old stereotypes just watch any monty python skit/movie :P)