Is no one inspired by Katy Perry, Bezos’s fiancé/wife ?? and several other XX chromosome people boldly repeating Alan Sheperd’s May 1961 suborbital flight today?
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Good for them. They want to spend money on a thrill ride, they earned it, let them. This isnt political. Its also not that newsworthy except they made it safely.
The media is portraying this stunt as a mission, the celebrities as a flight crew. It’s as if these women not only built the ship, but used it to safely pilot half of humanity out of slavery.
Sort of see your point. What about Trump flying Air Force One to attend a wrestling match at taxpayer’s expense? That seems to cross a line (and it isn’t Von Karman’s)
It is an absolutely worthlesss stunt. On the other hand if Bezos, Musk and that ilk spent money keeping NASA, NOAA, NIH afloat I’d put a laurel wreath on their brows. They never will.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but they were still about 200 miles away from the ISS. They went 64 miles high. The SR 71 was hitting 16 miles high in the 1950s. So yea, they weren't in space. 😂
Alan Sheperd in Freedom 7, on a Redstone rocket (basically a ballistic missile) reached an altitude of 116 statute miles—much higher than they went. When Sheperd flew it was extremely dangerous and his flight served a purpose. Theirs was no more significant than Bezos popping a champagne cork
I saw you're an astronomer, so I figured you would give me a good answer. Thank you. Rich kids riding a rocket for 11 minutes. And everyone cheers like it's some kind of accomplishment.
Huh? Privileged people play time while bonzos assists in the gng bng azzrpes of the 1st Amendment, torching of democracy, and animation of our population? Really?
Yuck. New thought. ElSalvadore sucking up to Trump as he defies SCOTUS ( another yuck). Anyone remember how little pretext Regan needed to invade Granada in 1983
Moron rich folks who are irrelevant doing things that only moron rich folks do? No, no one cares. Except the media because covering actual news is against their lawyer's advice.
Just another attention seeker. Enjoy your 15 minute flight and 2 seconds of fame.
(Alan Sheperd did all this already on May 15, 1961. I’ve flown across the Atlantic a few times; does that make me Lindbergh?)
I doubt they had a choice. But Perry gave up and married Bezos? And now reaps the entitlements of the uber rich.
Here's a palate cleanser with a true hero: https://youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?si=dT067FYZ899SHbft
They are inspiring what?, nothing good, they are just having personal fun & inflating their own ego, to later land with more hate against fellow humans with less wealth, like bezos, musk, zucker-berg, trump bunch of psychopaths
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National Strike May 1st.
Inspires something
(Alan Sheperd did all this already on May 15, 1961. I’ve flown across the Atlantic a few times; does that make me Lindbergh?)
Here's a palate cleanser with a true hero:
https://youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?si=dT067FYZ899SHbft
More reason why we need to convince more ppl to say goodbye to Amazon & other companies it/Bezos owns (ex. Zappos, imdb, so many!!)
Why not be inspired by the many, many actual female astronauts who have achieved so much?