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
One small step for a woman....
A man sent them up there.
A truthful headline would read -
“Six women transported as useless cargo really high then returned safely, nothing of note occurring during the transit”
I for one didn’t need this display to know those 3 “celebrities” are space cadets.
To the moon with you Alice. Only a Boomer will get it.
“all-female flight crew...”
They didn’t FLY shit.....they were passengers along for a really expensive Six Flags ride.
“One small step for a woman....”
In form fitting space suits. Nice.
Lauren Sanchez made history as the first gold digger to suck her way into space.
Not true, technically Gen X here “one of these days...”
:)
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...
Low Earth orbit is NOT “space”.
Over the top in so many respects, and void of meaning. The (for now) ultimate ‘You Go Girl!’ moment. Not sure what it says about the passengers. I can’t imagine they were much more than that. I do know that I’d not have done it. Flight is serious business, especially of this sort. One can only imagine the hysterical chaos on board had something gone wrong.
And sitting in a roller coaster chair giggling with no responsibilities does not make one an astronaut.
I wonder how Gayle felt about sitting in a d!ck head. No wonder Orca was crying.
They accomplished nothing besides taking up space.
That cover looks like they sent a coven of vampires into space.
Woods would be right, if they knew the risks. Have them sit through 10 minutes of video of Apollo 1, the Challenger, Columbia and a few rockets exploding. Then see how many takers you get.
Kármán Line Useless Near-space Tourists (KLUNTs)
“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.”
Disaster never crossed her mind.
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