I think that these are a cruel fraud on a young generation.
17 thoughts on “NASA’s Mars Recruitment Posters”
Isn’t the fraud in using taxpayer money to produce them?
Your tax dollars at work.
But, it’s not entirely without substance; NASA did succeed in launching a hashtag.
Why not steal dreams of young people? The US government did it for us with the whole Apollo and Shuttle program. Let’s maintain consistency, people!
Well, like the tobacco industry, or any other for that matter, the space industry always needs fresh young minds to disillusion. I have to admit that they’re nicely done; it must be nice to have the kind of budget needed to produce such propaganda.
It does have me thinking about what a Moon-focused series would look like. Tons of comparable images exist in the literature, and in my view it would be much more relevant to the current generation given that cislunar space is where the action will be in the near future.
My dreams were stolen – We were supposed to have nuclear energy so inexpensive that it would be unmetered. Flying cars. Colonies on the Moon, and exploration of the other planets.
To prepare myself I became an astronautical engineer – then physician.
Thanks for fing nothing, NASA.
Congress deserves a larger share of the blame, but I wish NASA would be more honest, both to Congress and the public.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
When you have expert graphic artists with skills in powerpoint, photoshop and visio, every problem looks like a poster.
Combining this with the ‘How to we fix Jihadism’ meme of the day….
Steal ‘The Black Rock’, drop it on Mars.
Cute. But I doubt that (nor, e.g., nuking Mecca, suggested up-thread) would have its desired effect in psychologically crippling Islam.
As it happens, historically a tribe called the Qarmatians attacked Mecca in 930 A.D., defiled sacred sites in the city — then stole and carried the ‘black stone’ of the Kaaba off to eastern Arabia, where it remained for more than two decades (being ransomed back in 952) — WITHOUT Islam’s aggressive impact on the rest of the world being notably ameliorated during that time period.
Given the lack of social media at the time, most Muslims likely never knew it happened.
I thought the space cub scouts was kind of cute.
As for dying on mars? It’s as good a place as any.
Wasting tax dollars is HOW they justify their existence.
The problem with govt. is we’ve reached the point where we really need to start over… [comment interrupted by the FBI]
“We’ve determine this person has committed a seditious act and will be deported.” – CAIR, FBI public relations branch. (“…because we are not yet to the point in this country where we can cut his head off.”)
“Hey CAIR, we rioters political protesters can take care of that gringo for you?” – La Raza
“Move along” (while we watch and do nothing.) – San Jose PD.
“America has always been great” (a great place to steal from tax payers through bogus organizations) – Hillary
NASA has the best PR department of any government bureaucracy. Including it’s own cable channel.
NASA Channel is proof it takes a bureaucracy to make space boring. Haven’t missed a SpaceX broadcast yet, haven’t watched a NASA broadcast in ages.
Perhaps one day Martian hipsters will ironically display these posters in their artisan retro-themed habitation modules. But they certainly won’t be the descendants of anybody who was sent there by NASA.
Celebrated our 25th anni with dinner high atop the Devon router bit in downtown OKC last year. Want to spend our 50th at the Ceres Marriott Residence Inn. I cast down the marker, pretend I’m named Kennedy. 😉
These posters eerily resemble a lot of Soviet space art, particularly from the youth magazine Tekhnika molodezhi.
Isn’t the fraud in using taxpayer money to produce them?
Your tax dollars at work.
But, it’s not entirely without substance; NASA did succeed in launching a hashtag.
Why not steal dreams of young people? The US government did it for us with the whole Apollo and Shuttle program. Let’s maintain consistency, people!
Well, like the tobacco industry, or any other for that matter, the space industry always needs fresh young minds to disillusion. I have to admit that they’re nicely done; it must be nice to have the kind of budget needed to produce such propaganda.
It does have me thinking about what a Moon-focused series would look like. Tons of comparable images exist in the literature, and in my view it would be much more relevant to the current generation given that cislunar space is where the action will be in the near future.
My dreams were stolen – We were supposed to have nuclear energy so inexpensive that it would be unmetered. Flying cars. Colonies on the Moon, and exploration of the other planets.
To prepare myself I became an astronautical engineer – then physician.
Thanks for fing nothing, NASA.
Congress deserves a larger share of the blame, but I wish NASA would be more honest, both to Congress and the public.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.
When you have expert graphic artists with skills in powerpoint, photoshop and visio, every problem looks like a poster.
Combining this with the ‘How to we fix Jihadism’ meme of the day….
Steal ‘The Black Rock’, drop it on Mars.
Cute. But I doubt that (nor, e.g., nuking Mecca, suggested up-thread) would have its desired effect in psychologically crippling Islam.
As it happens, historically a tribe called the Qarmatians attacked Mecca in 930 A.D., defiled sacred sites in the city — then stole and carried the ‘black stone’ of the Kaaba off to eastern Arabia, where it remained for more than two decades (being ransomed back in 952) — WITHOUT Islam’s aggressive impact on the rest of the world being notably ameliorated during that time period.
Given the lack of social media at the time, most Muslims likely never knew it happened.
I thought the space cub scouts was kind of cute.
As for dying on mars? It’s as good a place as any.
Wasting tax dollars is HOW they justify their existence.
The problem with govt. is we’ve reached the point where we really need to start over… [comment interrupted by the FBI]
“We’ve determine this person has committed a seditious act and will be deported.” – CAIR, FBI public relations branch. (“…because we are not yet to the point in this country where we can cut his head off.”)
“Hey CAIR, we
rioterspolitical protesters can take care of that gringo for you?” – La Raza“Move along” (while we watch and do nothing.) – San Jose PD.
“America has always been great” (a great place to steal from tax payers through bogus organizations) – Hillary
NASA has the best PR department of any government bureaucracy. Including it’s own cable channel.
NASA Channel is proof it takes a bureaucracy to make space boring. Haven’t missed a SpaceX broadcast yet, haven’t watched a NASA broadcast in ages.
You would think that with all of those Power Point whiz’s on the payroll they could come up with an original style:
http://russiatrek.org/blog/art/propaganda-posters-of-soviet-space-program-part-2/
Or maybe the point was not to be original?? Why change what works:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/562598178423252725/
Perhaps one day Martian hipsters will ironically display these posters in their artisan retro-themed habitation modules. But they certainly won’t be the descendants of anybody who was sent there by NASA.
Celebrated our 25th anni with dinner high atop the Devon router bit in downtown OKC last year. Want to spend our 50th at the Ceres Marriott Residence Inn. I cast down the marker, pretend I’m named Kennedy. 😉
These posters eerily resemble a lot of Soviet space art, particularly from the youth magazine Tekhnika molodezhi.