I was today years old when I realized that she was talking to Homer Hickam, and I’ve seen the movie October Sky more times than I can count.
I was today years old when i realised that NASA employees arent allowed to swear. Fuck that dude, dont care who he is.
He doesn’t want the aliens to learn swear words or they might start adding them to the crop circles. Obviously.
There is a level of professionalism you should have when you work at some places, but personally I think a little crass celebration should definitely be allowed.
That said, whether she knew who he was or not, her actual response wasn’t necessary.
Wholsome ending
What was tje original exchange? I can’t remember, though I do remember the drama to follow.
It was something like this:
A: Everybody shut the fuck up I got accepted into NASA
B: mind your language
A: fuck you
B: denys A the scholarship
Homer didn’t deny anything, he wasn’t even involved in that decision. He even put in a good word for her. However she basically lied when she was asked about it and that dug her in deeper, also leaving the post up didn’t help.
NASA basically wanted her to not draw controversy to the agency over social media, per their rules, and they normally have a reasonable amount of leeway. But there were a couple concerning things during the process, mistakes she made (that she has probably since grown from) that led to NASA passing on her internship.
Let’s not overlook the thousands of transphobes on 4chan, 8chan, and kiwi farms who reported the tweet to NASA just to try to get her fired.
Transphobes? Did she literally have dick and balls?
What a weird ass way to phrase that question.
She is a trans woman. She hadn’t even told her family at the time.
From what I remember and what a quick search on the internet confirmed, B didn’t actually deny her anything. He actually went out of his way to do as much good for her as he could. He claims to have replied “Language.” because he knew other people at NASA with more say on her job would find her, which would get her into trouble (and they did find her even before his first Tweet).
Did… Did they get the job? I kinda hope they did. Being overly excited can fuck you over sometimes. Like a weird yell could even fuck you over.
I swear I remember she didn’t
No, she didn’t. However she did end up in aerospace anyway.
There was a 16th Minute of Fame podcast episode about it, including a recent interview:
Sixteenth Minute (of Fame): suck my dick and balls i work for nasa: the naomi h story
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/sixteenthminute/suck-my-dick-and-balls-i-work-for-nasa-the-naomi-h
Why are podcasts so fucking long?
To make more room for ads
I want to hear this story but I’m not interested enough to invest over an hour. I’d listen if it was 10 minutes.
Who the fuck tweets at people telling them not to swear?
Someone high up in the chain of command you are trying to join that knows a professional public perception is important when we shot people into space? That type of thing gets taken very seriously by people in the PR world.
If professionalism mattered at nasa I need an explanation for 2/3 of the apollo 11 crew…
Sure, but it’s understandable that there would be a misunderstanding in an interaction like that. Something like “this kind of language is not appropriate here at nasa”, or simply “this is unprofessional”.
TBF, if someone tells you to chill, is your first response to double down on your first mistake?
As a young lass excited for an amazing carrier opportunity? I might.
Especially in an Internet setting where that’s the cultural norm. At work it’s different, but the internet is casual and defiant
Hell yeah it is
That’s what the first reply was saying. Someone ready to work at NASA would do a cursory Google, or know who Homer Hickam is in the first place lol.
“Language” was carrying a lot of extra weight.
When some random person replies to me saying to watch my language the last thing I’m doing is googling them.
“Random person” is the trap
In fact, i might even be inclined to tell them to suck my dick and balls.
If you want to learn more about it than is frankly reasonable, Jamie Loftus recorded a detailed history including an interview with Naomi H.
TLDR from the actual interview with her:
- She did lose the internship. He did try to get it back for her but it didn’t work.
- She eventually ended up working for Boeing, but on commercial jet engines rather than space stuff.
- they called her to rescind her internship while she was at her brother’s wedding
Heartbreaking.
Also imagine having a social media account actual tied to you irl
Ahhh yes history’s greatest monster Jamie Loftus
Are you talking about suspected hammer murderer, Jamie Loftus?
I’m talking about puts-ketchup-on-popcorn Jamie Loftus
Links that aren’t region locked:
Sixteenth Minute (of Fame): suck my dick and balls i work for nasa: the naomi h story
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/sixteenthminute/suck-my-dick-and-balls-i-work-for-nasa-the-naomi-h
yEs!
thanks
Until she discovers a problem and tries to become a whistleblower.
yup, or literally anything else that could possibly happen at that company right now.
Oh, so that’s why the fronts are falling off all their
boatsplanes.That doesn’t sound very typical.
Well, it’s not supposed to happen.
Don’t worry the
boatplane was taken outside the environment.So it was taken from one environment to another environment.
surprisingly enough, for Boeing it actually is nowadays.
It was a lot of swearing. And he wrote “Language”. Then something like “who tf are you” And he answered big boss at NASA or something.
There’s probably higher quality pictures out there, but I figured this would work
I bet you have your reasons for posting the most dogshit version of this picture available, while also linking to a site with a much clearer version.
In case someone wants a better version and to save a click:
That’s only slightly less dogshit.
That’s what Jesus said when you slid out of your mom’s front butt.
My app compressed it to the point where it looked like the other one, what happens if you tap into it?
Language
Suck my dick and balls. I’m shit posting on Lemmy!
Dikenbaus
And I am on the National Shitposting Council that oversees Lemmy.
u/ouRKaoS gets booted from their Lemmy server
watch yo profamity
Censoring language on a screenshot is so stupid. Who is doing this? For what purpose?
Reach a broader audience on dogshit platforms. At least this is proper censoring and not a piss take off a line through the “bad word”
