get them confused. Must be the 80's hair

KimNorth: "Her first flight came two decades after the Soviets sent a woman into space"

What shocked me is the Soviets were the first to send a woman into space...

Soviet/Russian female spaceflight appears to be rather transparently for propaganda occasions and otherwise hostile to female participation. Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya were the only two Soviet women in space. Tereshkova flew in 1963 and was one of the first human beings in space. Four other female cosmonauts retired in 1969 without flying. Savitskaya flew in 1982 and 1984, obviously in response to America's introduction of female astronauts around that time. Yelena V. Kondakova is the only post-Soviet Russian woman to fly in space, in 1994 and 1997. This was, again, suspiciously coincidental with American Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle pilot (later commander). Kondakova's second flight was aboard the space shuttle with Collins as pilot also on her second flight!

There will be NO inexpensive cures for cancer. No money in it.

/ RIP lady

yellowcat: cedarpark: I thought she died in the Challenger accident in the 80s.

At least she'll have elementary schools named after her.

Judith Resnick was the 2nd US Woman in space and was recruited to be an astronaut by Nichelle Nichols. She died in Challenger.

As did Christa McAuliffe, slated to be the first civilian in space.

Well shiat. I guess I am gonna die too one day.

/40

Scrotastic Method: IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T: Manon Rheaume would like a word:

Pfffffft. Not quite. Never played in a real game, and even if she had, goalie wouldn't count. It's like, how many times do you hear a story about a girl playing college football, and then you start reading and you're like, "yup...kicker."

I get what you're saying, but nobody said on par....OP asked for a pioneer, she was definitely a pioneer, signing a pro contract and playing in a few exhibition games. Equating a goalie to a kicker is a bit of a stretch though, kickers don't have frozen rubber flying towards them at 100mph nor a bunch of sticks whacking at them.

/Not to mention razor sharp skates
//Which Clint Malarchuk can attest to

BroVinny: consider this: Hagenhatesyouall: This....

howtogrowmarijuana.com

....has the potential to cure and prevent cancer.


HAHAHAHA no.

Indeed. If Mary Jane had the ability to fight the big "C", Carl Sagan would have been the most cancer-free man on the planet, next to Cheech and Chong.

farking filthy hippies will always try and shoehorn some made-up bullshiat about cannabis
into any conversation to further their filthy hippy agenda.

srtpointman: Shame. Wait...what did she do with her Mustang SUBARU?

/FIFY

Don't forget Sally Go 'Round the Roses

THC has been shown to inhibit some types of tumors, and that's about it. On par with cranberries in terms of being a documented "cure" for anything.

perhaps it can cure teen malaise syndrome, and insufferable in-law syndrome. More study is probably needed.

the only thing THC has a real medical success with is restoring appetite. most americans are not suffering in that regard.

RIP RIDER

BroVinny: yellowcat: cedarpark: I thought she died in the Challenger accident in the 80s.

At least she'll have elementary schools named after her.

Judith Resnick was the 2nd US Woman in space and was recruited to be an astronaut by Nichelle Nichols. She died in Challenger.

As did Christa McAuliffe, slated to be the first civilian in space.

There were assloads of civilians in space before her. Neil Armstrong had held a Naval Reserve commission but had resigned it years before he walked on the moon. Jack Schmitt had never been in the service. Most of the crews on Skylab were civilians. Deke Slayton resigned his Air Force commission after being selected to be an astronaut and then being grounded, but long long before he finally went into space aboard Apollo-Soyuz. There were plenty of others. Even among her crew-mates, Greg Jarvis had resigned his USAF commission in 1975, and Drs Ronald McNair and Judith Resnik (mummm, what a waste of one fine-ass JAP) were life-long civilians,

McAuliffe was just supposed to be the first teacher* in space. Even that requires an asterisk, as many astronauts had been TAs, adjunct faculty, assistant professors, taught various courses in the military, and so-forth.

So sad to hear and way too young. Physicist, Astronaut, Educator. Made us all look like abject underachievers.

WhyteRaven74: Quantum Apostrophe: , lumberjack,

There are female lumberjacks.

Lumberjennies?

Nem Wan: Sally Ride knew Tam O'Shaughnessy since they were 12. Ride married astronaut Steve Hawley the year before her historic first space flight. They were divorced when she left NASA following her participation in the Challenger investigation. He remained with NASA till 2008 and said in 1999 that the reason for their divorce was that she wanted to leave NASA and he didn't.

Sally's sister Karen "Bear" Ride has been openly gay for decades. In 1999, Bear said, "Sally knows Susan and I have lived together for quite a while and that we share a house. But she prefers not to talk about it."

Excellent L.A Times profile

So Sally was bisexual, then. Also the first REAL female astronaut. The women the Soviets sent up were untrained political dolls meant to embarrass the USA without really doing a damn thing. To this day, Russia hasn't allowed a woman to be a real cosmonaut.

England and Wales
3,400,000 civilian firearms - 6.2 for every 100 people
Ranked 88 in the world for civilian gun ownership

In the latest year, there were 41 homicides by firearm - 0.07 per 100,000 population. 6.6% of all homicides are by firearm

Interesting that they don't directly give you the homicide rate isn't it? (100/6.6)0.07= 1.061homicides/100,00

Switzerland
3,400,000 civilian firearms - 45.7 for every 100 people
Ranked 3 in the world for civilian gun ownership

In the latest year, there were 57 homicides by firearm - 0.77 per 100,000 population. 72.2% of all homicides are by firearm

So (100/72.2).77= 1.066 homicides per 100,000 population so according to their stats Switzerland has a slightly higher murder rate than the UK. Multiple sources around the internet starting with Wikipedia indicate that the UK murder rate at 1.23 per 100,000 is almost double that of Switzerland at .66 per 100,000 so somebody isn't telling the truth and given that this is an antigun site I'll bet it's them. Confiscating guns as opposed to giving them away for free doubles the murder rate.

Even if they were right then there is such a slight difference between Switzerland and the UK's homicide rate as to be completely meaningless unless you were looking to be murdered by being bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat then obviously the UK is the place to go for that. Clearly the presence of guns doesn't affect the murder rate because there are 7.37 times as many guns in Switzerland as in the UK.

WhyteRaven74: Quantum Apostrophe: , lumberjack,

There are female lumberjacks.

Only on the weekends

I stopped reading at:

FTFA: After her flight, more than 42 other American women flew in space, NASA said.

So... 43 then?

I can see "Over 50" or "More than 100", but writing anything like "more than 42" is just a sign of laziness and/or stupidity.

OscarTamerz: England and Wales
3,400,000 civilian firearms - 6.2 for every 100 people
Ranked 88 in the world for civilian gun ownership

In the latest year, there were 41 homicides by firearm - 0.07 per 100,000 population. 6.6% of all homicides are by firearm

Interesting that they don't directly give you the homicide rate isn't it? (100/6.6)0.07= 1.061homicides/100,00

Switzerland
3,400,000 civilian firearms - 45.7 for every 100 people
Ranked 3 in the world for civilian gun ownership

In the latest year, there were 57 homicides by firearm - 0.77 per 100,000 population. 72.2% of all homicides are by firearm

So (100/72.2).77= 1.066 homicides per 100,000 population so according to their stats Switzerland has a slightly higher murder rate than the UK. Multiple sources around the internet starting with Wikipedia indicate that the UK murder rate at 1.23 per 100,000 is almost double that of Switzerland at .66 per 100,000 so somebody isn't telling the truth and given that this is an antigun site I'll bet it's them. Confiscating guns as opposed to giving them away for free doubles the murder rate.

Even if they were right then there is such a slight difference between Switzerland and the UK's homicide rate as to be completely meaningless unless you were looking to be murdered by being bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat then obviously the UK is the place to go for that. Clearly the presence of guns doesn't affect the murder rate because there are 7.37 times as many guns in Switzerland as in the UK.

Pssst. Dude. Wrong thread.

HopScotchNSoda: BroVinny: yellowcat: cedarpark: I thought she died in the Challenger accident in the 80s.

At least she'll have elementary schools named after her.

Judith Resnick was the 2nd US Woman in space and was recruited to be an astronaut by Nichelle Nichols. She died in Challenger.

As did Christa McAuliffe, slated to be the first civilian in space.

There were assloads of civilians in space before her. Neil Armstrong had held a Naval Reserve commission but had resigned it years before he walked on the moon. Jack Schmitt had never been in the service. Most of the crews on Skylab were civilians. Deke Slayton resigned his Air Force commission after being selected to be an astronaut and then being grounded, but long long before he finally went into space aboard Apollo-Soyuz. There were plenty of others. Even among her crew-mates, Greg Jarvis had resigned his USAF commission in 1975, and Drs Ronald McNair and Judith Resnik (mummm, what a waste of one fine-ass JAP) were life-long civilians,

McAuliffe was just supposed to be the first teacher* in space. Even that requires an asterisk, as many astronauts had been TAs, adjunct faculty, assistant professors, taught various courses in the military, and so-forth.

The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, was also the first civilian in space. She was recruited out of a textile factory, given a crash course in science and engineering and beat her competitors in testing. She was made an honorary Soviet Air Force officer because the space program was military, and attended the academy after her spaceflight.

/odd last line at that

Hagenhatesyouall: spman: cold_war_relic: spman: RIP Space Lady

Pancreatic cancer is a biatch, ain't it? No symptoms until it's too late, generally no specific reason why you get it, and a prognosis of 6 - 12 months. That's some scary shiat.

We lost my wife's sister to pancreatic cancer last Christmas. She was 46.

That's awful. A cancer diagnosis is always terrible, but at least when you smoke your whole life and get lung cancer, or drink yourself into a stupor for 30 years and get liver cancer, you can at least point to a definitive cause. I couldn't imagine trying to wrap my head around a diagnosis like Pancreatic Cancer where the only real cause in most cases is just bad luck in the genetic lottery.

This....

[howtogrowmarijuana.com image 324x243]

....has the potential to cure and prevent cancer.

If you believe these guys: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/cam/cannabis/healthprofessional /page4

Too bad it's been criminalized for the past 70 some years due to ignorance and fear...

WOW! Is there anything pot can't do??

/friggin' pot-heads.

The 20th anniversary of her first flight also coincided with the loss of Columbia, a bittersweet time for Ride, who discussed it in a 2003 interview with The Associated Press. She acknowledged it was depressing to spend the anniversary investigating the accident, which killed seven astronauts.

"But in another sense, it's rewarding because it's an opportunity to be part of the solution and part of the changes that will occur and will make the program better," she said.

And less than two years later the entire space program was killed by Cheney, who that idiot Bush had given the decision on what kind of new space shuttle should be developed. His decision?

None. He had make believe wars to fund.
Which allowed Obama to later kill the program, because he had make believe items of his own to fund.

That decisions on the nation's future in Space (and undersea exploration) is taken out of the hands of a brilliant lady such as this and made by two faced lying punk politicians is one of the greatest tragedies of our modern era. The terrible decisions made in the last dozen years about science couldn't have been any more worse than if we had people dead set on the destruction of all the sciences in charge. Watching it play out without fanfare on the corporate news has been extremely disheartening.

RIP Sally Ride.

I would have bet money she died in Challenger. I thought for sure she was part of that.

Magorn: exick: After retiring from NASA, Sally used her high profile to champion a cause she believed in passionately--inspiring young people, especially girls, to stick with their interest in science, to become scientifically literate, and to consider pursuing careers in science and engineering.

Cheers to you, Ms. Ride. There aren't nearly enough like you in the world.

Ride is survived by her partner of 27 years, Tam O'Shaughnessy

And to add a little Fark style levity to this, holy crap is that not the most Irish name in history? haha

and tells me something about Miss ride I never knew before, apparently NASA never had the equivalent DADT restrictions, and Dr. Tam O'Shaughessy seems like a pretty cool lady in her own right

To bad that due to homophobic laws Dr. O'Shaughnessy won't be able to collect death benefits.

Dear Jerk: Until now, I never considered that there may have been someone more tired of Mustang Sally than I am.

No, not by a long shot. I hear that song maybe once a year and I hate it with a passion every time. If I never hear it again it will be too soon.

IamSoSmart_S_M_R_T: Are Astronauts at greater risk of contracting cancer?

/First thought I had when I heard she'd passed...even before I knew the cause of death
//NOT a snark
///RIP

The hard sci-fi anime series Planetes actually covered that issue This astronaut's fight with the big C took up an arc of a few episodes.



/Pretty damn good series

SquiggsIN: Hagenhatesyouall:
ignorance, fear, and for the sake of profit. If the pharm/insurance/medical industries weren't so afraid of losing patients it would be legal. They know that if it is legal they won't be able to make money from a plant anyone can grow in their backyard. They'd rather keep it illegal and keep selling you thing that don't prevent or cure disease but help maintain your condition. It's called residual income.

OMG. Listen to the Chong wannabes and they'll tell you all the miracle applications for hemp, how such and such is better, etc.

Now apparently weed cures cancer! At this rate it'll end all poverty and catapult the human race into godhood in less than 20 years.

/should have quit while you're ahead

dbaggins: the only thing THC has a real medical success with is restoring appetite. most americans are not suffering in that regard.


Cannabis is excellent for people with sleep disorders and anxiety. Glaucoma patients get legitimate medical relief as well. Enough MS and general pain relief claims show that it has at least some pain relief properties, though I think many potheads will agree it's no Advil or Vicodin.The government also decided it had significant enough antioxidant and neuroprotectant properties that they patented them - source.

Call it a relaxant, an intoxicant, a drug, a devil weed, it's a bit more useful than you claim.

dbaggins: SarcasticFark: It's a sad state of affairs that young women today have no one to look up to like my generation did with Sally Ride. True pioneers of the female persuasion are, sadly, too few and far between.


The USA has put up about 50 female astronauts (most of them for multiple flights). I don't think young girls are hurting for a role model to go into space.

What field are girls lacking pioneers/professionals in ?


Is there some frontier that is still no girls allowed ? honestly. what area is needing a female pioneer ?

I can think of a few fields that I've seen listed at 50 or 100 to one in gender ratio: heavy-construction-vehicle repair, locksmith, home-heating repair and installation. Not sure about electricians and plumbers, but that may be a pretty steep ratio as well.

Also: President of the United States.

Hector Felix: KimNorth: "Her first flight came two decades after the Soviets sent a woman into space"

What shocked me is the Soviets were the first to send a woman into space...

Why?

Truth be known, it was a stunt. If Khrushchev has not wanted yet another "first," they would have never have sent up Tereshkova. And indeed, once they had accomplished the "first" they utterly no intention of ever sending a woman up again. Of course progress happened even in the Soviet Union and they had their second women in space in 1984.

Sally Ride earned her seat. Her rides in space were not a stunt. And indeed she had quite a distinguished space career even ignoring her trips into space.

Great_Milenko: sleeping martyr: How doth the hero strong and brave, 
A celestial path in the heavens pave.

Go, Sally, Go

Perfect.

Indeed. Seconded.

One more from when we were little. Gone.

spman: cold_war_relic: spman: RIP Space Lady

Pancreatic cancer is a biatch, ain't it? No symptoms until it's too late, generally no specific reason why you get it, and a prognosis of 6 - 12 months. That's some scary shiat.

We lost my wife's sister to pancreatic cancer last Christmas. She was 46.

That's awful. A cancer diagnosis is always terrible, but at least when you smoke your whole life and get lung cancer, or drink yourself into a stupor for 30 years and get liver cancer, you can at least point to a definitive cause. I couldn't imagine trying to wrap my head around a diagnosis like Pancreatic Cancer where the only real cause in most cases is just bad luck in the genetic lottery.

This shows me how little you know of the disease.

TheMysteriousStranger: Hector Felix: KimNorth: "Her first flight came two decades after the Soviets sent a woman into space"

What shocked me is the Soviets were the first to send a woman into space...

Why?

Truth be known, it was a stunt. If Khrushchev has not wanted yet another "first," they would have never have sent up Tereshkova. And indeed, once they had accomplished the "first" they utterly no intention of ever sending a woman up again. Of course progress happened even in the Soviet Union and they had their second women in space in 1984.

Sally Ride earned her seat. Her rides in space were not a stunt. And indeed she had quite a distinguished space career even ignoring her trips into space.

Fair enough.

Pardon Me Sultan: I stopped reading at:

FTFA: After her flight, more than 42 other American women flew in space, NASA said.

So... 43 then?

I can see "Over 50" or "More than 100", but writing anything like "more than 42" is just a sign of laziness and/or stupidity.

Arguably the US has put the most females in space at least. A more exact number of US woman is 45 I believe, and total there have been 56? That includes the first Chinese female who flew last month. That's out of 526 or so total fliers?

wtfisthat: I"m late in the thread but wanted to say that usually I like the meanest most irreverent headline for death thread. This is the first greenlit death thread that brought tears to my eyes. Congrats subby you made a grown man cry (Girly man sure but still a grown man).

You seriously need to up your antidepressant dosage if that headline makes you cry.

I can't help but be unbelievably sad, 61 is too damn young. She was a real American hero who did her best to inspire the next generation and was still working at inspiring us with Moon Kam. May we all strive to do so much to make the world a bit better than we found it. Thanks Sally. :(

topcon: I would have bet money she died in Challenger. I thought for sure she was part of that.

She was part of it. But not as a victim, but as part of the commission that investigated the accident.

Indeed she was one of the only persons who supported that man who provided evidence that his employer's responsibility for the accident at the time.

Ah WTF. Now I have Lay Down Sally by Eric Clapton stuck in my head...

Oh yeah, and death sucks

My headline: Sally Rode

Oh, yeah, and RIP.

I farking hate you, cancer.

RIP space lady. Thanks for the memories.