she went with jeff bozo’s fiance. they basically polluted the fuck out the planet for no gain other than the egos of few ultra wealthy twats.
very inspiring to anyone who has $500,000 to ride a dick-shaped rocket to the outter atmoshphere instead of going to disney landDisney has increased their prices so much, that only rich people can afford it anymore. The really rich pay for private tours and special access. So what do they have to do to show that they are even better than the “average” rich person?
Go to space.
I hope this becomes the new staus symbol of the wealthy, and they start shooting up larger and larger tourist rockets, until one explodes and wipes out 100 Sociopathic Oligarchs at once.
Are you guy caring after pollution now after encouraging people to burn electric cars for months
Really now
no and any sane person should agree with you. anyone who damages a random person car just because its brand is psychopathic and evil pos. I never even scratch someone’s else door in tiny parking lots because I wouldn’t like it to happen to me. You remember when conservatives boycotted the shit out of budlight and started shooting it and wasting it? Yeah that’s stupid too. I get what the boycotts accomplish but wasting something you already have is a negative. now imagine if they went out and destroyed/shoot someone’s else beers who just bought it in his shopping cart? scummy hurtful shit no sane person disagrees
The first ‘female-only crew’ in space is technically Valentina Tereshkova (she went alone). Not these women.
Evil Russian Communist so she doesn’t count
Also she actually had to do some work. Where’s the fun in that?
Communists aren’t evil. That stinks of red scare propaganda. Though apparently she did vote for the Ukrainian invasion, which sucks. And no, that doesn’t devalue the achievements of the Soviet Space program. It does count.
I understand a trip into orbit is hard to pass up, but how could you not know what riding on Bezos’ rocket would look like to the rest of us. It’s just so gross.
“Look girls, IM REALLY RICH! Bezos might have destroyed thousands of women’s lives, but he sent ME to space! Idolize me for being so rich I get everything for free! Bow down peasants!”
I wish it would have exploded and so people could dance in the rain of her blood.
It wasn’t even a trip into orbit. Their rather short voyage was a sub-orbital hop. A low orbit of Earth requires a speed on the order of 8 km per second - Blue Origin can make about Mach 3, from what I read, which is circa 1 km per second. You go up, you go down. That’s it. They don’t even go particularly high (~100 km), and the apogee doesn’t keep you “above the atmosphere” (LOL) for long. Given the risks, I’m not sure it’s worth it, personally.
If we really want to inspire people by pointing out women’s accomplishments in spaceflight and space exploration, maybe we should be talking about people like Eileen Collins (astronaut on key shuttle/station missions), Lindy Elkin-Stanton (science lead for Psyche, the first to a metallic asteroid), Maria Zuber (lead the GRAIL mission to the Moon, co-discovered the rifts in the Ocean of Storms), or Mimi Aung (lead engineer for the Ingenuity 'copter on Mars 2020). And I’ve only mentioned a few Americans with recent work here; the rest of the world has plenty of enterprising female space scientists and aerospace engineers.
I share the general distaste in this thread and on Lemmy generally for this sort of celebrity stunt, and I’m glad to see the criticism. I do sometimes think, however, that for a certain kind of person, Bezos and Musk are becoming associated or even synonymous with spaceflight/exploration generally, which is a dangerous association to make. People have many, diverse and very legitimate reasons for going to space - there’s a lot more going on than joyrides and ego trips.
The funny thing is news sites are barely, if not at all, talking about the only two female scientists on board. If you don’t know their names, you will not even be able to find it in most articles because all they care about are Katy Perry and Laurent Sanchez. lol truly a historic victory for the common female
I do sometimes think, however, that for a certain kind of person, Bezos and Musk are becoming associated or even synonymous with spaceflight/exploration generally, which is a dangerous association to make. People have many, diverse and very legitimate reasons for going to space - there’s a lot more going on than joyrides and ego trips.
I do want to elaborate on that, if you don’t mind.
I’m all for spaceflight and mars settlement because it has many advantages. One of the most relevant ones is that it can stimulate the economy. Think about what the 1960s Moon mission did to the US: It inspired people and created jobs. Now think mars settlement could do something similar, but bigger. That in itself is a big win for the US, though there are more reasons to go, such as technological breakthrough and getting rid of the billionaires from Earth. There are more reasons to go, ofc, such as distracting Trump from wreaking havoc on the environment and minorities (remember: trump bashes against minorities because he needs to keep his voters voting for him by demonstrating power. If he can do something less destructive to demonstrate power, such as helping make settlements on mars, that hopefully is enough to satisfy his voters and makes it easier to shift his focus away from minorities).
I bet those women working in Amazon fulfilment centers will be inspired by this as they work with a full bladder for fear of losing their jobs if they take too many bathroom breaks.
Katy Perry was in space longer than those women are allowed to leave for piss breaks. Inspiring! /s
are you saying it’s not inspirational for women to have your filthy rich husband pay for your unnecessary trip in a rocket? i would feel so empowered and self-reliant!
It’s gross enough to have them be completely unqualified and just pay for a joyride in space while marketing it as some feminist achievement. Why add the stuff about husbands paying? I’m sure Katy Perry is rich enough for several trips to space.
Bashing women by claiming that they’re only worth what their husbands give them is outdated and stinky. We can do better than that… Let’s hate people in new and improved ways!
Perhaps for the gross things they actually do and say, like choosing to participate in this expensive PR-stunt to cover up the erasure of actual astronauts, regardless of who is paying…?
Pretty sure they are talking about bozo’s wife not the others
Celebrating 5 women giggling as they ride around in a rich man’s vehicle while the rest of the world burns is the perfect 2025 moment. I’m reeling from the fact that their “motto” was “taking up space!”
The layers of irony are so thick they are collapsing upon themselves…
inspired to do what?
inspired to do what?
insert duck chasing meme
What would Katy Perry going to space even inspire girls to do? Get popular writing queer-bait songs and release mediocre pop albums? Become a dark horse? Look at that girls, if you can write mid-tier songs and wear skimpy outfits you too someday can become a passenger on a billionaire’s cock rocket!
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Of course, they want Women In Space to be billboards, pretty things to look at and nothing more. Women are for procreation and decoration in their world.
Alternative title: Inspired to find a man to take you for a ride in his space penis
If it pulled a Challenger, baby would have been a firework.
Great, now we’ll get shitty pop music based on “4 minutes in space”™
I’ve looked back at the Earth, it’s quite a view.
A new height for me to look down on you,
I’m the Queen of space and you are a peasant.
Stuck to the ground, it’s so unpleasant.I’ve been to space and I’m better than you,
I’ve been to space and I’m better than you,
I’ve been to space and I’m better than you,
I’ve been to space and I’m better than you.
They also removed the comic they hosted about women astronauts…
Can you post it here?
Here is the archive.org page for it. It only got 2 issues out before they deleted it, but you can download them there.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250314045755/https://www.nasa.gov/calliefirst/
Serious question: I Blue Origin actually doing anything else but celebrity joy-rides? If not, this has to be the most grotesque waste of resources I can think of.
They haven’t contributed to spaceflight advancement in truly innovative ways. At least SpaceX manages to catch some of their rockets when falling back to Earth. Blue Origin’s only claim to fame is that it’s a slightly more advanced vomit comet, which we’ve had for decades at this point.
vomit comet
I’m gonna pirate this.
It’s the old nickname for an airplane that basically flies up high, then nosedives for a while. They originally set it up so astronauts could train in free-fall (since they’re, y’know, falling for a few minutes), though it seems like you can just hire them for whatever now. OK Go did a music video featuring a ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGJA9i18Co
