Certainly more than “arm chair Monday morning quarter backing”
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Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Don’t take this the wrong way but from the list of achievements she sounds very much a Politician/PR-person/Lobbyist specialized in the area of Space Exploration, not an Engineer or a Scientist.
Still beats Beer-belly Brad by a long distance (probably not hard), but is such a person really worth celebrating in Science Memes?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Liz@midwest.social 1 month ago
Here’s the thing, we scientists need our cheerleaders. We spend our time getting good at doing science, so it’s worth it to hire someone who is good at hyping and advocating for our work. Go listen to the recordings of James Webb trying to explain to JFK that we need to do a shit-ton of science before we can get to the moon. JFK just plain doesn’t understand the magnitude of what he’s asking for. He thinks we could do it in 6 months. This lady is our champion.
parrhesia@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Just because she isn’t a straight engineer or scientist, doesn’t make her expertise less worth it I don’t think. And I would think that would make a very narrow acceptable requirements for this place.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 month ago
As long as these types pay attention to what the scientists tell them and explain it to others accurately, they’re helpful