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
They were passengers on a joyride.
They aren’t actual rocket scientists.
When is Bezos going to make this more than a vanity project. So far I don’t think he has added anything to space flight other than a really expensive amusement park ride.
Only a Boomer will get it.
Like I LIVE LUCY playing somewhere in the world right now, I am sure the HONEYMOONERS is also being played somewhere in the world right down.
Spam in a can.
Next up, a free submarine ride to visit the Titanic. Bring a change of clothes.
Just a billionaire having fun. It’s not news and not important.
There were six of them.
“knowing her young daughter would be watching her”
The media women of today might “love” their children but the children aren’t a priority. There’s not much entertainment value in children. Time with children is time away from their profession.
IMHO, Woods’ post is a back-handed compliment, pointing out that they were in space for just a few minutes. Basically saying it was nothing but a really high joy ride by today’s normal space flight standards.
Laika the space dogs
The media keep referring to them as “crew.”
Does this mean the next time I fly on American Airlines I can say I am part of the crew?
Is anyone running Amos N’ Andy?
...and just a reminder, the Challenger flight lasted 73 seconds...
Here's the text from Woods' post (which is in the screenshot of your post): "I don't care if it lasted one minute..."
IMHO, that statement undermines the rest of his comment, as a way of indirectly saying that everyone shouldn't start building statues of them.
The “Spacesuits” for the 11 minute flight were haute couture - made without pockets for a “streamlined look” that wouldn’t let them look big through the hips.
Actually, yes. I saw a clip of the capsule as it was descending. They played audio from inside the capsule. They sounded like they were on a roller coaster.
I think you are wrong... Very wrong!!
Good day to you Sir!!
Yep, ‘spam in a can’.
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