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 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
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.
can become a passenger on a billionaire’s cock rocket
for 10 full minutes, no less
I encourage anyone who doesn’t already know who Max Martin is, to google him. He is a sweedish producer and songwriter. He has written a staggering amount of pop hits from 2000 on and a massive chunk of Katy Perry’s most well known songs. This girl boss owes her success to a man.
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.
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
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
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
They also filmed some of the zero-g scenes for Apollo 13 in the Vomit Comet.
It’s a bucket list item of mine to fly on and folks reaction to the name is never not funny
Their first orbital rocket, New Glenn, had its inaugural flight earlier this year. IIRC, it performed rather well in the “launch to orbit” aspect, but they lost the booster as it was coming back to land on a drone ship. It’ll take them time to iron out the kinks, but as long as they don’t scrap the project, I don’t see why it couldn’t become a contender in heavy lift.
It’ll take them time to iron out the kinks, but as long as they don’t scrap the project, I don’t see why it couldn’t become a contender in heavy lift.
So in about 30 years at their current peace?
Suppose we’ll see. Not unusual to have a long gap between the early launches, lots of data to analyze for the first time. Was 8 months between the first and second launch of Ariane 6, for example.
At this point they seem like joy rides. To start I remember them claiming they were using the data from New Shepard to learn how to best control and land the much larger and more expensive New Glenn rocket, which made sense. It’s not like SpaceX is going to share how they manage to nail the landings so repeatedly, it’s the secret to their success.
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
I saw “women”, plural.
Just think it’s unnecessary to drag women for having rich husbands, when there is so much more relevant shit to drag these specific women for.
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
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’m waiting for one of these propaganda stunts to end like that submersible that imploded and turned all those rich bitches into goo.
And I’ll laugh.
Yeah if anyone had a rocket fragment dropped on their head and I wouldn’t mind it , it probably would be you
“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.
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/
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.
I only just found out about it from this thread.
I don’t even know what we are talking about
A classic case of the shenanigans, see.
Not my UEFI!
That was my first thought too. Why can’t they just flash a new one?
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.“I’ve been to space and fucked Legolas too.”
And also a MAGA Rapist.
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 "SoulTM "
I don’t understand why Katy Perry. Janelle Monáe has songs about space, has talked about wanting to go to space, and is a competent musician. If you are doing this stunt, why do you want the “artist” behind E.T.?
It feels like a weird attempt to do some fake “girl power” feminism to distract from the fact that NASA is seriously purging female employees, probably going to retool Artemis to not focus on female astronauts as part of this anti-DEI program - while at the same time this kind of news story puts the reactionary chodes into overdrive, because this is presented as a “feminist” action. (And like no - this is tourism. It’s almost gross to brag about having an “all female crew” when this is just a tourist stunt. If you wanted to do a badass “first all female crew since the Soviets!” thing, then maybe show off women doing science?)
Like it’s Bezos wife, and a couple of women with industry credentials. The engineers I met who were working on Psyche would deserve that opportunity and might benefit from it - this is no different than someone “climbing Everest” on the back of a Sherpa.
Pop music is ai v0
Corporations are slow AI that runs on people and paper. Not my original take - it was a term even before the LLM bubble.
Two things can be shit at the same time. Still more human input than suno ai slop
not really. I’d prefer listening to Pho Que by dadabots over any manufactured pop stuff anyday.
Maybe I joined at a bad time but this shit is probably the worst amalgamation of sounds I heard since middle school.
There is currently no pop song worse than this shit.
No, it’s meant to be like that. It’s mathcore mixed with saxophones and smooth jazz.
It’s an aquired taste for sure, but if you like stuff like that (Shining, estradasphere, john zorn) it’s cool.
EDIT : The idea is that you can make some pretty cool stuff with AI,and if you dislike that example, similar things made without AI will also be stuff you dislike.
EDIT2 :
Maybe I joined at a bad time
thanks for having a bit of leniancy, honestly. Your assessment on it being horrid is a valid opinion to have.
Well I now gave shining a listen and tbh, while it isn’t my jam, it sounds like music.
Pho Queue did not sound experimental to me, it was dissonant. Not in a good way, in an “I don’t know what the fuck im doing” kind of way. Shining sounds good because they know what they are doing. What kind of principles they violate. An AI has no idea what these principles even are.
In the end, we won’t agree here. I think that AI fundamentally lacks the one thing Music has: A miniscule amount of thought. Even the worst pop slop follows certain principles because they just work in some way.
And it will win a Grammy for “Song of the Year.”
We’ve come a long way from that woke song “We Are The World.”
