We are all biased, and little can be done about
this.
Communication is the only way, but by its nature tends
to hurt people's feelings in cases like this. I
applaud your courage, Anthere for raising the subject.
They were amused however, of that situation.
They are in no way anti-American, but they laughed
at > our non bias policy in
this case.
This hurts my feelings. Huygens is about 20% of the
Cassini-Huygens mission, and has been well represented
in the English article (going back to before the
spacecraft and article separation).
What you report fits exactly into the worst
stereotypes of
the French; sneering at other people's work, but
not taking any responsibility for having let this
perceived problem go unmentioned for years.
Language like this is not helpfull, Stan.
nationalistic pride?
Not always a bad thing, now is the time to applaud
Europe's fantastic success; space craft seperation,
deploying multiple parachutes, ejecting heat shields,
and functioning instruments working flawlessly after
billions of miles and years of cryogenic hibernation.
Well done, Europe, ESA and ASI!
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