The first 'female-only crew' in space is technically Valentina Tereshkova (she went alone). Not these women.
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Evil Russian Communist so she doesn't count
Also she actually had to do some work. Where's the fun in that?
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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....
The layers of irony are so thick they are collapsing upon themselves…
The era of irony has ended; we have entered the era of farce.
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 land
Disney 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.
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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.
inspired to do what?
inspired to do what?
insert duck chasing meme
Buy things, and receive cosmetic surgical treatments from Jeff Bezos
Oops, all ads
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!
It’s just more about letting your entire career be dictated by men even down to the “queerbait” as a very generic pop diva that’s truly uninspiring to women (and everyone in general if I’m honest). She’s a plant and it’s beyond obvious.
Which is why it makes it all so cringe.
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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
"Inspire Women"
Yea... so you mean like... checks notes
Electing the criminal con-artist that failed casinos multiple times, simply because he is male, over the qualified* women that ran against him? On TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS, BY TWO DIFFERENT CANDIDATES? One of the times the woman is even a prosecutor, and the con-artist have been convicted of 34 felonies, but apparenly being a morally-bankrupt criminal doesn't matter since he's male. So this is the "Inspiring Women"? 🤨
(*yes I know they are shitty in their own ways, but like at least they wouldn't fuck up the economy and cause people to be unemployed and fuck up the climate)
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Alternative title: Inspired to find a man to take you for a ride in his space penis
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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.
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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!
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is this supposed to show people everything is alright, there is no sexism and misogyny? wow billionaires are really so out of touch with reality
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.
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
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“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.
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.
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written by 50 producers, focus tested over 100 iterations, lip synced to when "performed" live, and scores a bajillion dollars.
And people hate AI for some reason. Obviously this shit will be overflowing with "Soul^TM^ "
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The orbit is a great place for all celebrities but they can skip the capsules.
Sociopathic Oligarch propaganda. Which is why I made sure to pay no attention to it at all. That's why I didnt even know it went up until I got home and saw it on the news.
Not my UEFI!
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You made the celebrity culture. You love it so much you've elected celebrities to the highest offices in your country multiple times watched them rear apart your institutions and then elected them again. Just happened recently again if you hadn't noticed. You've done this to yourselves. Only you can change it.
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I don’t even pay attention to that vapid idiot anymore, and I’ve got full-blown Katy Perry fatigue from all this bullshit being blasted in everyone’s face. What a bunch of pretentious, gross assholes who failed to read the room at a time when it seriously needs to be read.
It’s telling that even Russel Brand divorced her. He’s insufferable. Guarantee she is too.
If you read up on it it's pretty clear he was entirely shit to her and she wasn't quite full on persona-fied.
circus & bread, ah yes look the pretty famous girls and remember this stunt and not the shit we're doing
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Sounds like a fun ride, but there was no orbit, nor were they flying the ship. I feel more inspired by the women who have went into orbit far above the Karman line and have flown spacecraft.
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