For the uninitiated, the actual context was Naomi used celebratory expletives, the man overseeing the NASA internships asked them to maybe calm down, and the user then told him to “suck my dick I’m going to NASA” before being informed who they were talking to.
Apologized to Hickam, said no biggie, he was a Vietnam vet, and is 75 has no real idea on the whole Internet thing. And was just trying to tell her to watch out, cause nasa looks at social media.
Writes blog post detailing that he thought it was no biggie.
NASA calls, askes if she wrote the tweets, she lies, says no. Then loses internship.
Hickam tried to get her the internship back but no dice.
Speculation that 4chan or kiwifarms mass reported it to NASA and this helped get her fired. (She is a furry and trans). If you don’t know about KW farms…just know it’s literally a bunch of nazi fucks…
Thank you for those links. I hadn’t heard of this before and it was a hell of a ride.
For everyone else, the TL;DL of the podcast (which you should listen to!) is that Naomi is good now, she works in the aerospace industry (“commercial jet engine stuff”), and she still cusses a fuckton. She did not get back her NASA internship after that incident. I don’t think she mentioned in the interview exactly how she got back in the industry, all she said is: “I took such a roundabout way to get back into it”, and then the conversation was sidetracked by BOEING KILLED A GUY!
For the uninitiated, the actual context was Naomi used celebratory expletives, the man overseeing the NASA internships asked them to maybe calm down, and the user then told him to “suck my dick I’m going to NASA” before being informed who they were talking to.
I’m paraphrasing a lot here, going off memory.
Also the guy warning her is not only not the one who got her canned for the tweets but he actually went to bat for her.
How did she manage to land a job as an MLB team manager after a NASA internship?
LOL, genius move, Naomi. Do we know how it ended?
In-depth update from last year: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sixteenth-minute-of-fame-172216473/episode/suck-my-dick-and-balls-i-198420059/
lord knows I tried reading that, but I lack the brain damage required to read any more.
I fuckin hate podcasts. they say a whole lot of bullshit with near zero content.
it’s 45 minutes of pretentious dumbasses reacting to the smell of their own farts while locked in a tiny recording studio.
Well geez, ok. It’s a podcast I enjoy listening to.
Ok I get, that listening to it is differently than reading, but I tried to read it to get information.
And I fucking scrolled through and missed no important part. They stray off from the topic and no real information is given.
And by reading I don’t even know who is who and if they are even someone who is involved in the story.
After 5 minutes I am pretty sure they are just speculating.
For real though, it’s basically 45 minutes to say “yes she got fired”
Lost internship.
Apologized to Hickam, said no biggie, he was a Vietnam vet, and is 75 has no real idea on the whole Internet thing. And was just trying to tell her to watch out, cause nasa looks at social media.
Writes blog post detailing that he thought it was no biggie.
NASA calls, askes if she wrote the tweets, she lies, says no. Then loses internship.
Hickam tried to get her the internship back but no dice.
Speculation that 4chan or kiwifarms mass reported it to NASA and this helped get her fired. (She is a furry and trans). If you don’t know about KW farms…just know it’s literally a bunch of nazi fucks…
That’s the TL;DR or TL;DL
Yes, the aftermath was covered in a lot of news articles.
“Suck my dick and balls”
There’s an episode of Sixteenth Minute of Fame about it.
Background info
💌 A paragon of proper Internet behaviour right here.
Thank you for those links. I hadn’t heard of this before and it was a hell of a ride.
For everyone else, the TL;DL of the podcast (which you should listen to!) is that Naomi is good now, she works in the aerospace industry (“commercial jet engine stuff”), and she still cusses a fuckton. She did not get back her NASA internship after that incident. I don’t think she mentioned in the interview exactly how she got back in the industry, all she said is: “I took such a roundabout way to get back into it”, and then the conversation was sidetracked by BOEING KILLED A GUY!
To be fair, she’s more famous now than the vast majority of NASA employees
If she’s anything like me that consolation holds no value at all.
Right? I genuinely do not understand the desire to be famous. Like, it just does not compute for me and my personality.
Notoriety for notoriety’s sake seems a bit shallow but I can certainly get the idea of making a mark in something that you hold dear. Recognition.
Pretty fucked up they harassed Hickam to the point that he removed his own blog page defending them.
Thanks for the pod-recommend. Never heard of this one.
Before this happened, I actually knew who Homer Hickam was because I had read October Sky, made the whole tweet chain just that slight bit funnier.
The book was called “The Rocket Boys”. The movie made from the book was “October Sky”. (I honestly like the movie name better, though).
While you’re correct, since 1998 the book has been published as October Sky for that very reason. Fun fact, October Sky is an anagram of Rocket Boys
No way
I was just googling him to see if he was the October sky guy.