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Faking History: Six Women Take Up Space
Free Thinking Through the Fourth Turning with Sasha Stone ^ | 14 Apr, 2025 | Sasha Stone

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


TOPICS: Society; Travel
KEYWORDS: blueorigin; whocares
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To: sit-rep

“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.


41 posted on 04/15/2025 5:51:30 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder what the headlines would read if Musk had done it instead.


42 posted on 04/15/2025 5:52:58 AM PDT by econjack
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To: BBB333

Cool story...

BTTT!


43 posted on 04/15/2025 5:54:42 AM PDT by sit-rep
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To: philman_36

A sub-orbital doesn’t pour on the Gs like a burn to orbit, for sure.


44 posted on 04/15/2025 5:56:26 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: econjack

Musk would have considered it a total waste of money.


45 posted on 04/15/2025 5:57:42 AM PDT by volare737 (Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated.)
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To: MtnClimber

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.


46 posted on 04/15/2025 6:02:01 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: MtnClimber
It's a private company straightforwardly drumming up publicity. The ultimate goal is selling tickets.

I have no problem with that.

47 posted on 04/15/2025 6:12:35 AM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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To: MtnClimber
There's women I'd like to drive out of this world! Women I'd like to make the earth move for. And some women make you want to send them to the moon.


48 posted on 04/15/2025 6:12:58 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

Real spacesuits don’t display cleavage.


49 posted on 04/15/2025 6:13:28 AM PDT by Romulus ( )
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To: MtnClimber

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.


50 posted on 04/15/2025 6:14:11 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: MtnClimber

Nice legs.


51 posted on 04/15/2025 6:14:28 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Trump may be one of our greatest Presidents, if they don't kill him first.)
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To: MtnClimber

I’m disappointed that they didn’t go all the way to the space station and left them stranded there


52 posted on 04/15/2025 6:14:46 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier )
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To: MtnClimber

I’m sorry, this stunt was nothing more than a tribute to the still ever present wokeness in our society.


53 posted on 04/15/2025 6:18:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: philman_36
Low Earth orbit is NOT “space”.

And unbuckling to experience weightlessness for 2-3 minutes is not exactly any great accomplishment furthering space exploration.

54 posted on 04/15/2025 6:20:29 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: All
Their blinker was on the entire way....

I say good for them. It's their money and not our aerospace company.
55 posted on 04/15/2025 6:22:21 AM PDT by mmichaels1970 ( )
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To: up hermit

lol!!! Alice never looked too worried when he said that!


56 posted on 04/15/2025 6:23:09 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

LOL! That was a good one, and most likely quite true.


57 posted on 04/15/2025 6:24:30 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

LOL! That was a good one, and most likely quite true.


58 posted on 04/15/2025 6:25:08 AM PDT by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: MtnClimber

The Bezos girlfriend has a fish face. How much did she pay the plastic surgeon to achieve that?


59 posted on 04/15/2025 6:30:55 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: GreenHornet

Did they really scream?????


60 posted on 04/15/2025 6:33:54 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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