Re: Does Mars need women? Russians say no

From: Rhonda Lea Kirk (rhondalea_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:04:24 -0500

Jorge R. Frank wrote:
> Doug... wrote
>> Jorge Frank wrote:
>>> Doug... wrote:
>>>> rk says...
>>>>> John Doe wrote:

>>>>> <snip>

>>>>>> Also remember that interactive communications
>>>>>> with a spouse will
>>>>>> not be possible once far enough from earth, and
>>>>>> that is something
>>>>>> which has not really been tested much so far.
>>>>>> And it isn't just
>>>>>> the person is space one much consider, but also
>>>>>> the spouse and
>>>>>> possibly kids who won't see their parent for
>>>>>> such a long time.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK, so there's your excuse, the married woman in
>>>>> the experiment
>>>>> just needed it, he was doing a public service,
>>>>> eh, Mezei?
>>>>
>>>> I will point out that there was a rather nasty
>>>> flap in the press a
>>>> couple of years ago regarding a Russian-sponsored
>>>> isolation
>>>> experiment. The experiment was designed to put a
>>>> mixed-nationality, mixed-sex crew into a situation
>>>> roughly similar
>>>> to that of an extended planetary flight -- no
>>>> real-time
>>>> communications with the outside, a timeline of
>>>> system maintenance
>>>> and extended training for later mission phases...
>>>> that kind of
>>>> thing.
>>>>
>>>> The experiment ended rather abruptly when one of
>>>> the Russian men
>>>> decided to grab, fondle and roughly kiss one of
>>>> the American women.
>>>> Against her will.
>>>
>>> Umm, Doug, you *might* want to review the thread
>>> before jumping
>>> in... that's the exact incident that everyone's
>>> been arguing about.
>>
>> I guess my server missed a few posts -- I thought
>> people were
>> discussing the recent Russian declaration that
>> all-male crews were
>> preferable for Mars missions, followed by a
>> discussion of why, and
>> why not. Sorry, I missed specific references to the
>> event I
>> discussed...
>
> It just occurred to me: do you use killfiles? One
> person involved in
> the discussion of the incident is a frequent resident
> in many
> regulars' killfiles, and if your newsreader is
> sophisticated enough
> to kill replies as well, you may never have seen the
> discussion.

I thought at first that it might be because he was
reading from a different group--some people have been
trimming headers and others have not, which has led to
some odd sub-threads, including this one.

But when I went back and looked at both groups, the
Lapierre incident is retold in the thread immediately
prior to this one entitled: "Russian: MEN WILL BE FIRST
TO GO TO MARS" and only referred to in this thread
beginning with Rand's
response to "John Doe."

rl