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
Its just a more expensive version of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFN5y_2O4vM
They just went along for the ride...
Traveling in space NEEDS to be as casual as this. We need to get rid of the extensive training crappola of what is simply taking a ride in an airplane. There is no longer any glamour to this.
We need to get to that point so that even the most stupid and worthless can tag along on our migration to the other planets.
What barf.
You know men were totally in charge and the women were just spectators along for the ride.
None of ‘em were driving.
This is Bezos ‘wanna ride in my lambo’ moment. Stupid simps like him do it all the time, just not on his scale of expensive stupid.
They were less than a crew of flight attendants are crew. They didnt even get up to serve drinks.
Elle should be renamed Woketopia
I saw the Challenger launch from just south of Cape Canaveral. I was close enough to hear the launch and the explosion after the time delay for the distance. When something goes wrong it can go wrong in a big way.
I agree with James Woods...
Sure they hammed up the whole all female crew thing, but it could have blown up and that’s a fact.
...and I was truly serious when I said I don’t think I would do it. and I’ve been the daredevil/radical sports type all my life!!
I wouldn’t do it and I have climbed some pretty dangerous mountains.
This is really a massive insult to refer to a group of space tourists as any kind of actual astronaut crew. Or even like air force crews. To try to use the same nomenclature and attempted coverage as a real crew is a huge insult to those that ARE part of real crews.
The encouraged proliferation of, as you say, stupid and worthless, is why we are where we are today. Maybe we don’t do that in the future places where we travel. Its bound to happen anyway, but we don’t need to actively subsidize it.
This, Airheads in Space and Coachella, are two things I can’t wait to disappear from the news.
Agreed. It took me nine months of blood and sweat to earn those dolphins. Proudest moment ever!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrFiKcBdCx8&list=PL-IGtTLDrUKRlI3T_TjA3EMXLeMyW4Iwm
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Search on YouTube and you will be surprised what you can find.
The space monkey actually had some training
I keep seeing that this “crew” that didn’t fly anything was on a “mission” - so what, precisely, did they accomplish? Oh. Selfies. And a good deal of squealing. Anyone care how Suni Williams is doing? Anyone remember her name?
Was this virtue signaling or was the crew really men and we just misgendered them?
What utter poppycock.
This is the world’s most expensive kiddie ride.
it didnt cost you anything so whattayoo b*tchin about...!!
Rock out and feel the momment!!
https://youtu.be/ELcTJZLxhFU?list=RDELcTJZLxhFU
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