Killjoys at NASA cancel Doomsday

[james_davis_nicoll]

"Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036."

Fools! Have they never read those books where by creating some false crisis, the steely-eyed rocket men get the money to properly develop manned (and girled) spaceflight for the betterment of Man?

Comments

[hattifattener]

Not to be pedantic, but — okay, I admit it, actually to be pedantic, but, even a ship crewed entirely by girls would be “manned” by them. The ”man” in that word is hands, manos, hands of fate style (or “manual”, or “manipulate”, or “all hands on deck”, maybe).

A ship crewed by sentient telekinetic slime-molds would be unmanned, I think.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

A ship crewed by sentient telekinetic slime-molds would be unmanned, I think.

Would that also go for a ship crewed exclusively by eunuchs?

[hattifattener]

Or a ship crewed by people who are so scared they lose their masculine qualities?

[hattifattener]

(Clearly there's some elaborate and not particularly funny pun or shaggy-dog story here about a sentient, crewless ship and its reaction to a terrifying situation.)