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JUST popped up on huffpo
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dall...tor-mass-shootings_n_64010e78e4b0d14ed6a6a545
n the ensuing years, the DeviantArt account became less active — a time that corresponds to a period of seeming turmoil in Humber’s life. Although hopelessfangirl boasted she had a 4.2 GPA and was part of a high school rocketry team that won a competition sponsored by NASA, her dreams of attending a prestigious college at 18 years old were apparently dashed when she briefly became homeless. In 2010, police raided her home and arrested her boyfriend for possessing child pornography. (He was later convicted.) And in 2012, Humber was arrested for possession of a controlled substance — methamphetamine — and sentenced to probation and a drug diversion program.
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The rocketry connection is just a tangential, random fact that the researcher found...and sadly chose to bibliograph with a hyperlink. but dam, it appears about an inch below a terrible cartoon she did.

Not 'a blow...' to anything; young women in the hobby are made of sterner stuff. But it's shi77y that 10s of thousands of people will discover youth rocketry this way.
 
It’s not great to have the hobby mentioned in this context, but I think maybe anyone potentially drawn into making associations based on this story might be more interested in connecting her to dildos than rockets.
 
There are crazy folks and extremists in all bastions, and they tend to be on the extreme of the right or left. You have them in white supremacy, black nationalists, environmentalists, pro-life, pro-choice, etc. I can keep going, but I will not. I am not saying they are all crazy, but movements tend to attract these folks because it gives meaning to their disordered life. Watch the discussion on this topic and try to avoid politics and adult topics.
 
ThirstyBarbarian said:
It’s not great to have the hobby mentioned in this context, but I think maybe anyone potentially drawn into making associations based on this story might be more interested in connecting her to dildos than rockets.
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Well, the context is a 4.2 GPA student connected to an awesome model rocketry program. The only bad press is no press???
 
Alan15578 said:
Well, the context is a 4.2 GPA student connected to an awesome model rocketry program. The only bad press is no press???
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I'd say that's generally true, although I think an exception applies when the bad press can lead to the ending of what's being discussed, ie making flying model rockets illegal.

This story won't do that on its own, but slowly connecting a particular hobby with negative associations can be the start of ending a hobby altogether.
 
It is shocking the paths that people's lives take that lead them into these terrible subcultures....

A couple of years ago I was wondering about a friend from high school, did some research, and found out she had died of a heart attack several years ago. Apparently she had gotten into a whole neo-Nazi movement while she was alive (I guess her husband was in that world but not sure of the context / backstory / history). I basically found out about this all from some websites posting the "good news" that she had died. It is pretty insane since we grew up in a really diverse town with friends from all different backgrounds so I cannot imagine how she wound up in that crazy world.
 
The one paragraph where the rocketry mention lies, if one reads it by itself, relates a really sad story. But reading further back reveals that by that time she was already radicalized. Which is also sad.

As for any bad impression about rocketry, I don't think it's an issue. I suspect that anyone so easily influenced to seeing our hobby as a threat will find plenty of other reasons to do so. And anyone who follows that link (I did) will be led to a much better impression.

hobie1dog said:
no different than saying she sang in the school choir.
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Yes, just so.
 
hobie1dog said:
no different than saying she sang in the school choir.
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unless it was a national award winning choir & there was a link to a news article there that showed a all beaming with pride & gave all their names.

I'm not concerned about this 'staining' rocketry...but I feel bad for all her team members & their adult mentors/teachers that are now getting calls/emails/texts from everyone that knew them back in '05 saying "OMG, what was it like working with Eva Braun?!?"

It WAS a special time for a good # of people, now those memories are a bit corrupted, which is sad. I'd be shocked if one or more regulars in this forum weren't involved in this '05 contest in one way or another.

I wasn't familiar with NASA's Student Launch Initiative...glad to see it looks like it's bigger & better than ever https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marsha...ms-for-the-2023-student-launch-challenge.html
 
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cwbullet said:
There are crazy folks and extremists in all bastions, and they tend to be on the extreme of the right or left.
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There is a disturbing similarity in the tactics, goals, and marketing efforts of all extremist groups.
Regardless of ideology.
The description of what this woman's neo-Nazi collective does is a carbon-copy of what one would read about goings on from ISIS or Islamic Jihad, in order to motivate their followers:

"Terrorgram collective produces propaganda — audiobooks, videos and memes — that travels across the web in hopes of inspiring the next Christchurch shooter, who killed 51 Muslims in two mosques; the next El Paso shooter, who killed 22 Hispanic people in a Walmart; the next Pittsburgh shooter, who killed 11 Jews in a synagogue; and the next Buffalo shooter, who killed 10 Black Americans in a grocery store. The Terrorgram Collective maintains a horrifying hagiology of these shooters, calling them “saints” and sanctifying their likenesses with medieval-style church drawings. "​

*sigh*
 
It really is a well done, IMPORTANT article, and I commend all the reporters, researchers and private citizens that devote their time & $$ to thoroughly vett, and then unmask/expose/doxx domestic terrorists of all political persuasions. And exposing American Nazis HAS to be the most rewarding of all!!!

But that dam hyperlink!!

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deandome said:
And exposing American Nazis HAS to be the most rewarding of all!!!
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We had a problem with a particularly bad gang called the outlaw hammerskins try to show up at our music scene in college. Shame was no deterrence, they only understand violence.
 
cwbullet said:
There are crazy folks and extremists in all bastions, and they tend to be on the extreme of the right or left. You have them in white supremacy, black nationalists, environmentalists, pro-life, pro-choice, etc. I can keep going, but I will not. I am not saying they are all crazy, but movements tend to attract these folks because it gives meaning to their disordered life. Watch the discussion on this topic and try to avoid politics and adult topics.
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These people are the result of mass psychosis.
 
afadeev said:
How so, do elaborate?

You are part of that scene, and feel the article is not representing it fairly?
:questions:
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Please don't. This is trolling to get someone to step into a bear trap. The Huffington Post and its leanings do not need to be discussed here. This will turn political too quickly.
 
Wally Ferrer said:
Is it wrong that I now think you could make a rocket out of a dildo..?
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Or even worse, the Jolly Green Giantess could... uh... the mind shudders!

There certainly is something phallic about both this and the Dragon/SpaceX booster combo. One doesn't even have to try to imagine it. And we've covered elsewhere that SpaceX could be pronounced as two words...
 

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