Who would do that much work just to be a US citizen?
I feel like it’s just her piling her work (unrelated to the green card) to demonstrate it and not necessarily the process itself?
But in all honesty, that’s just my understanding of the picture, I have no idea how that process works.
I needed more than a binder’s worth for a student visa turned spousal visa in Germany, I can believe a hyper specific visa needing this much documentation.
Most of the world if that’s all it took (circa 2024 at least). The US isn’t the best place to live, and it’s worse than places like Western Europe or the Nordics, but to someone from a third world country it’s still much better than what they can get at home.
She is from North Macedonia, deep balkan. Most places of the world are better than there, if you are looking for a professional carreer
If most places of the world are better, the question still is why the US?
She could just used the open borders of the EU and moved by car to an even better place.
Space infrastructure is the biggest there. Next may be Russia and China, Russian economy doesn’t look good nowadays and the Chinese language barrier is huge. EU and others are much more behind those 3.
There is also that thing that, unlike Russia or China, US is a democracy
EU software engineer here: at least until recently, I would’ve preferred to work in the US too. Significantly better pay.
Lady on the photo apparently is an astronaut. I’d wager NASA opportunities at the time were better than ESA.
Edit: apparently an “analog” astronaut, so she does practice missions on Earth. Still, probably better opportunities in the US.
Believe it or not, the US was at one point considered a nice place to live.
They still pay the highest.
Unfortunately, the mental cost is catching up.
US has good advertisement with “the american dream.” And hollywood.
Also if you find out that’s bs through asylum you get an electronic bracelet and can’t leave until you after you settled down. So no Canada.
Wow these are huge…
Huge stacks of paper I mean.
^ humanity at its best
Very stacked indeed
This looks like some serious cosplay shit. 5 seconds of an image search is just duckface headshots.
Do yourself a favor and read the Wikipedia page on Margaret Hamilton. She is an exceptional person.
This is stupid and boring. A person’s academic prowess should not enable them to migrate and this feels tangentially related to present anti immigrant sentiment while being unable to rebuff prejudice of the masses. A single person is always meaningless.
Edit: Also appealing to the laurels of the past by producing a stack of papers is just… Weird.
i truly see no way to interpret this image as “anti immigration”, it is comparing paper stack size to show how ridiculous it is just to enter one part of the earth.
also, academic prowess (when thinking about immigration through a bourgeoisie perspective) is one of the best measures of immigration status due to percieved financial gain.
how tall is she? seems like some distorted perspective
If anyone is curious you can see what was written on those volumes here https://github.com/philspil66/Apollo-11/tree/main
Margaret Hamilton didn’t write the code by hand and it was written by her and her team. She is still an amazing engineer, but let’s not make stuff up.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)
But she did review the code. It was all in one PR so her only comment was “LGTM”
Too bad emojis hadn’t been invented, else it would have been “LGTM 👍”
(and the mainframe would have exploded, for lack of unicode support)
Let’s Go To Moon
Point is that rge code to get us to the moon is not much longer, not how awesome she was.
Fetish model and “analog astronaut”
You had me at anal
What does the International Space Agency do? They don’t seem to be listed on wikipedia, and I just see things calling the woman on the left an “analog astronaut” with her in a spacesuit on earth
I don’t see anything in the image or FB post that mentions an International Space Agency?
search her name, then you get the stuff I’ve been seeing. I don’t go on facebook for obvious reasons.
Yes, wtf is an analog astronaut. I used to play a lot of Kerbal Space Program, am I a digital astronaut?
All I can find about her is interviews with her, no secondary sources. In one she says she is the founder of International Space Agency. Sounds like a media hack to spice up her resume.
It says it right there, they do simulations and fun little LARPs on Earth to figure shit out.
I found that later, forgot to add some “edit:”.
But she tries to present herself as someone on the levels of Einstein, but she is just a university student who got some internship in a nasa project.
Analogue missions are missions that simulate some aspect of the off-planet living conditions here.
I talked for a while with these guys (who are students, but still seem pretty serious), they had a stand at a convention I visited, they use a tunnel in the alps to simulate a habitation module:
https://make.epfl.ch/projects/25/association-asclepios-mission-25
Analogue missions seem like a legitimate contribution to the success of real missions to me, you gotta test both psychological effects and the functionality of prototype devices somehow.
