Posted on 04/15/2025 5:17:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Today, six women decided to “take up space” by training for a couple of days, doing lots of publicity, squeezing into fancy spacesuits, and then taking a Blue Origin rocket into space for a few minutes before returning to Earth.
In the dreamscape of Woketopia, they made history as the first all-female flight crew ever to reach outer space. In actual reality, if you’re lucky, you are engaged to a guy with enough money and his own rocket to gift you with that experience.
To actually make history, you’d need real astronauts who worked all of their lives for that moment. Not those who grace Elle's cover as though something really important is happening here.
It was a joy ride—a luxury few can afford. Maybe there’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t know if I’d have the courage to try, so perhaps just that alone is worthy of praise.
It seemed to me like a wedding present—a thing the guy who has everything gives to the girl who is about to have everything. And in that way, it blows the lid off every other kind of gift. No diamond ring or yacht can top it.
Listening to all of them spout their new-age gobbledegook made me sad. How much more empowerment does a woman like Katy Perry need? She took that ride knowing her young daughter would be watching her, knowing something could go wrong, and her daughter would see her blow up into a million tiny pieces.
And she did it anyway.
We can all breathe a sigh of relief that tragedy didn’t ensue and that they landed safely. Still, I can’t help but see this as somehow symbolic of a world-changing. Bezos wasn’t rescuing stranded astronauts. He wasn’t trying to get us to Mars. He was simply making his bride feel like she mattered.
What feels so over to me, so obviously over, is the way the upper crust or the ruling elites have used virtue signaling to justify everything they do. You want to fly up in a rocket with some of your girlfriends because it’s fun? Do that. Don’t hide behind some phony intersectional female empowerment lie. This wasn’t that.
These billionaire tech bros have so much money and power they don’t know what to do with it. It’s good they didn’t choose tomorrow, April 15th, to launch that rocket. That might have tempted fate, as it was the day the Titanic sank 113 years ago.
Some said the sinking of the Titanic marked the end of the Gilded Age. Perhaps this vanity rocket could be one of the signs that our Gilded Age is nearing its end.
In the 1800s, the wealthy had so much money that they didn’t know what to do with it. They ended up building massive mansions on the Gold Coast....SNIP
“After seeing so many explosions, I’d agree with Woods on this. I don’t know if I would do it if offered the opportunity. Murphy hasnt always been in my favor...”
My old neighbor — they sold their house in Montana and moved to Arizona to be near their child and Grand kids — was a professor at our local college. He was an Astro physicist.
One day were were at their house having drinks and I noticed a few engraved beer mugs above a kitchen cabinet.
“What are those? I asked.
“Those are keepsakes.”
“From what,” I asked.
“The space shuttle Challenger, that’s the last time I went to space.”
Turns out he had been to SkyLab three times as well...
They were a nice couple as long as you didn’t talk politics.
I wonder what the headlines would read if Musk had done it instead.
Cool story...
BTTT!
A sub-orbital doesn’t pour on the Gs like a burn to orbit, for sure.
Musk would have considered it a total waste of money.
The women who have served for extended periods of time on the International Space Station are worthy of recognition. These babes took a ten minute ride requiring no skill or participation in the operation of the rocket. All they were required to do was sit in the capsule. You could hear them all screaming on the way down.
I have no problem with that.
Real spacesuits don’t display cleavage.
Hell of a bachelorette party.
At least in the vacuum of space no one else could hear them talk.
Maybe that’s why Bezos did it. He got a precious ten minutes of peace and quiet that he will never enjoy again, after he is married.
Nice legs.
I’m disappointed that they didn’t go all the way to the space station and left them stranded there
I’m sorry, this stunt was nothing more than a tribute to the still ever present wokeness in our society.
And unbuckling to experience weightlessness for 2-3 minutes is not exactly any great accomplishment furthering space exploration.
lol!!! Alice never looked too worried when he said that!
LOL! That was a good one, and most likely quite true.
LOL! That was a good one, and most likely quite true.
The Bezos girlfriend has a fish face. How much did she pay the plastic surgeon to achieve that?
Did they really scream?????
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