"I work on a telescope that does the impossible."
    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      56·
      2 years ago

      Oh they have far more to lose their shit over when it comes to Dr. Rigby:

      Rigby was a founding member of the American Astronomical Society Committee for Sexual-Orientation and Gender Minorities in Astronomy.[12] In 2015 she co-organised Inclusive Astronomy, a worldwide initiative to celebrate inclusivity and equity in astronomy.[13][14]

      And:

      Rigby came out as lesbian in 2000.[2] When she joined the University of Arizona as a graduate student, it was still against state law to be gay.[2]

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Rigby_(astrophysicist)

      Not sure if she’s the first out lesbian to get the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but it wouldn’t shock me.

      Edit: Never mind. Billie Jean King got one from Obama and there might be women other than her, I just saw her name when I was scanning.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      301·
      2 years ago

      Ignore my previous post. They won’t even notice because he also gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Nancy Pelosi in the same ceremony.

    • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      … and over the fact that article mentions the universe being billions of years old, which we know to be false because some old book says so, supposedly, not that any of them have read that book. Ban all Webb data, keep that stuff out of our libraries and schools!