While you’re not wrong, it is many fewer than you’ve been led to believe, and fewer all the time. Normies are waking up, a little, to how much they’ve been lied to.
Did that thing even have a heat shield? Seriously, it doesn’t look like it saw any re-entry heating, the nice white paint job looks pristine after landing.
Designating them as “crew” and not “passengers” is an important legal distinction for liability and certification reasons, nothing more. Your designation as payload is correct from a practical accuracy standpoint. Nothing any of them did was going to materially affect the carnival ride.
Going up into the edge of space was significantly more risky in 1961 than in 2025. This matters.
This was not stunning and brave. It was a cunning publicity stunt involving a glorified 6 Flags ride. Completely ignorable by serious people, other than as a target of derision.
Here's a graphic you will not see from our fake media. Is there a name there notable by its absence? If you said Blue Origin, you win!
It was a glorified 6 Flags ride publicity stunt. And “crew” implies for many they had some vital part in the proceedings, which they did not. “Crew” just lets them sidestep some legal issues that would result if they were deemed “passengers”.
Chris was basically a do-nothing in The Steal of 2020. The grassroots of most of the county parties of the state is now full of MAGA Patriots who are keenly interested in election integrity and are highly suspicious of Kemp and Carr over their non-action, and who cannot stand Raffensberger.
This does not particularly help Carr with that group.
Wow, fake women aren’t women. This isn’t that hard, but it is still amazing a UK court made such a determination. Now if only our SCOTUS could get there.
The West Point kids were bussed to E-town High School where I finished up the last year and a half of high school. They were colloquially known as the River Rats.