User talk:Ultraplus

Maybe I have an internal desire to put people down in one way or another, but you have an obvious desire to hide unconvenient truths under the rug. Ascans from all the following classes have been assigned missions, and what a surprise, two guys from 1996 have no mission and very probably will never get one. And what a surprise, they both belong to minorities, an African American female astronaut and a Hispanic male astronaut. And of course we should pretend we have noticed nothing ? Hektor 10:09, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Mr Hektor Good observations. Perhaps it bothers you that those two individuals have not flown. Perhaps you perceive so as discrimination or whatever other name it could be applied to. However in my humble opinion your well intended means could be interpreted as a put down. From what I have read in a few astronaut books (Dragonfly, Ridng Rockets) the nasa astronaut group is a very dysfunctional organization, they have very flawed internal politics. Take a look at who flew over and over while the rest sat waiting. Perhaps your two favorite individuals have taken the high moral ground and just plain said "to hell with this garbage, I will not sell myself for a rocket ride, I can do better things with my life, my education, and my career". Perhaps those individuals have a medical condition which is something considered very private. Having said so I would like to suggest you to leave such phrases behind because they help nobody unless you think that doing so will help those two individuals. Also, as an observation, you are in France and sometimes the choice of words used to make a sentence in a language does not guarantee the message that a writer from another popular culture is trying to convey. I personally considered them a put down, specially "the dubious honour" that you mentioned in previous posts. Give it a thought. Let me know.

Best wishes.