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Daybound's avatar

[King] continued: “So I wish people would do more due diligence. And then my question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'”

Yes, Gayle, I'm the problem. The non-space traveler. You absolute bellend.

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Buzz's avatar

It was fun to scroll through the timeline and figure out that this was probably the reference point for the "Let them eat space" skeet I saw.

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J_'s avatar

I mean, it’s one trip to space Daybound. What could it cost? Ten dollars?

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defective dynast's avatar

the planet is boiling and a billionaire 'roid freak is sending his girlfriend to "space" to listen to katy perry butcher a classic song. I think I'll go play in traffic

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J_'s avatar

Whole thing really does reek of end times.

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Stephen Breyer's Ice Cream's avatar

This is all hilarious, to me at least. Gayle King being The Most Oblivious Person? Katy Perry doing stuff that would have impressed the 1950s films at 11? Kardashians making an appearance? Just hook this shit to my veins.

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Timst's avatar

Fun article, and also yeah, even without intellectualizing it, it doesn't "feel" like space. They've just been on a very high altitude flight. Honestly even going up on the ISS feels borderline. You're still in Earth's atmosphere (a tiny bit) and very much subject to its gravity (if it didn't go as fast as it does, it would plummet to Earth in short order). Going by the article's metaphor, it's the "Holiday Inn and Burger King" metric of visiting a place. I think you'd need to fly to another planet/moon to really qualify as a true Space Person.

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J_'s avatar

It definitely flunks the “feel” test. The whole thing was shorter than a Saturday morning cartoon episode. Idc what line they crossed, that ain’t space.

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Peter Wong's avatar

I watched "Sally," Cristina Costantini's wonderful documentary on Sally Ride. That film gave me both a greater sense of wonder and empowerment than anything this hopped up publicity stunt for rich people could deliver. This Blue Origin trip was the space version of Gal Gadot and friends singing "Imagine" (badly) during the early days of the COVID pandemic.

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salycionial's avatar

agree with this except I actually don't care about space that much and I would be okay if we spent less on it. Also, NASA people give the worst conference talks.

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