Deep Impact is a NASA space probe launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 12, 2005. It was designed to study the interior composition of the comet Tempel 1 (9P/Tempel), by releasing an impactor into the comet. At 05:52 UTC on July 4, 2005, the Impactor successfully collided with the comet’s nucleus. The impact excavated debris from the interior of the nucleus, forming an impact crater. Photographs taken by the spacecraft showed the comet to be more dusty and less icy than had been expected. The impact generated an unexpectedly large and bright dust cloud, obscuring the view of the impact crater.
Previous space missions to comets, such as Giotto, Deep Space 1, and Stardust, were fly-by missions. These missions were able to photograph and examine only the surfaces of cometary nuclei, and even then from considerable distances. The Deep Impact mission was the first to eject material from a comet’s surface, and the mission garnered considerable publicity from the media, international scientists, and amateur astronomers alike.
Upon the completion of its primary mission, proposals were made to further utilize the spacecraft. Consequently, Deep Impact flew by Earth on December 31, 2007 on its way to an extended mission, designated EPOXI, with a dual purpose to study extrasolar planets and comet Hartley 2 (103P/Hartley). Communication was unexpectedly lost in August 2013 while the craft was heading for another asteroid flyby.
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It is, frankly, incredibly shitty to attempt to call the curbing of ableism itself ableist.
As someone who’s watched a DSA lib lecture someone with a motor disability (itself from a congenital neurological health issue) about using the word “stupid” as an insult, I disagree. Want to guess how long it took them to formulate a response to the dismissive lib?
You should, in fact, be open to the idea that you can marginalize people when you shouldn’t be despite good intentions. To be clear, I’m not talking about sympathizing with reactionaries or giving up on the project of removing ableism from our spaces, a project that I agree with. But I would suggest that we all ask ourselves about our organizational capacity if we can’t handle conflict without being shitty to each other, without assuming bad faith, without mutual political education.
I should also clarify that there is always a balance between bullying members and attempting to bring them along in a discussion. I tend to be cool with bullying most of the time, even. We must keep each other safe, welcome, and free from harassment, particularly when it’s grounded in systemic oppression - something well-served by shutting down, e.g., transphobia, with rapid and coercive responses. Even so, is absolutely possible to be counterproductive by jumping straight to dunking. I’m also concerned that this happened through a fresh alt.
