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L’anti-intellectualisme de l’extrême droite. Ils voient l’école comme une usine à fabriquer des travailleurs obéissants, jamais comme un lieu d’émancipation. Surtout, ne réfléchissons pas !

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

L’Assemblée nationale a choisi de refuser le débat et l’examen du projet de loi constitutionnelle relatif à la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Cela prive les Calédoniennes et les Calédoniens d’une discussion parlementaire sur l’avenir du territoire. Face à ce blocage inédit, le Gouvernement prendra ses responsabilités : ni immobilisme, ni passage en force. Les signataires de l’accord de Bougival seront réunis la semaine prochaine, comme cela est prévu en cas de blocage.

Il faut arrêter de raconter n’importe quoi sur la Kanaky-Nouvelle-Calédonie Il y a un peuple premier : le peuple kanak. Un peuple colonisé, qui a un droit reconnu à l’autodétermination. Ça, ce n’est pas une opinion, c’est le droit international. Et s’il y a encore un cadre commun aujourd’hui, c’est parce que le peuple kanak a accepté de partager ce droit avec les autres. Ce n’est pas rien. On ne peut pas, d’un côté, bénéficier de ce compromis historique, et de l’autre, vouloir passer en force en ignorant ceux qui l’ont rendu possible. S’il n’y a pas de consensus avec les représentants du peuple kanak, alors il n’y a pas d’accord. C’est aussi simple que ça.