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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