Captain Kirk Blue Origin Space Flight (Live at 15:50 UK Time)

[Dallas]

Watch Capt. Kirk live boldly goes were Bezos has been before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhmp8CtROlE

[Euler]

Captain Kirk has great hearing, why??

He has a left ear, a right ear and a final frontier.

[weemac]

What do the Starship Enterprise and a toilet roll have in common?

They both pass by Uranus and get rid of the klingons.

[Euler]

This thread has the potential to go downhill fast.

[Trader Pat]

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[paspuggie48]

Captain Kirk has great hearing, why??

He has a left ear, a right ear and a final frontier.

Traitor...fancy not putting it in the Jokes thread...shambles !

[Kai]

This thread has the potential to go downhill fast.

Already looks overbacked by dadjoke posts

Apparently there are far too many dadjoke enthusiasts around and not enough contrarians

[Trader Pat]

No matter how many times I've watched that rocket come back to Earth and land it still doesn't look real, it looks computer generated.

Amazing!

[Derek27]

There was a time when you had to be really fit to blast off into space. Even that 89-year-old woman looked pretty fit, but William Shatner, as well as being 90 is quite porky!

[Dallas]

There was a time when you had to be really fit to blast off into space. Even that 89-year-old woman looked pretty fit, but William Shatner, as well as being 90 is quite porky!

There's discussions now on what to call them

Real astronauts aren't keen on them being called this, so terms like 'Space Tourist' or even just 'Holiday Maker' are being banded around for them

[Derek27]

There was a time when you had to be really fit to blast off into space. Even that 89-year-old woman looked pretty fit, but William Shatner, as well as being 90 is quite porky!

There's discussions now on what to call them

Real astronauts aren't keen on them being called this, so terms like 'Space Tourist' or even just 'Holiday Maker' are being banded around for them

If Captain Kirk isn't worthy of being called an astronaut I don't know who is.

[Derek27]

BBC (Sophie Raworth) said William Shatner is the oldest person to be in orbit! It wasn't an orbit BBC, you should use the correct terminology for the news!

[greenmark]

BBC (Sophie Raworth) said William Shatner is the oldest person to be in orbit! It wasn't an orbit BBC, you should use the correct terminology for the news!

That's pretty awful in a trivial way. But then is lack of linguistic precision ever trivial.
What amazed me was Shatners discussion with Bezos. He was clearly overwhelmed by the experience.
I'm paraphrasing here, but what I heard was:
The planet is blue and equals life, space is black and equals death.
And the transition from one to the other happens way faster than you can imagine.
Maybe punting creatives into this echelon is a great way of getting them to come back down and persuade the rest of us that we live on a pretty special place and it's worth taking some inconvenience to protect the future generations.

[ShaunWhite]

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What amazed me was Shatners discussion with Bezos. He was clearly overwhelmed by the experience.
I'm paraphrasing here, but what I heard was:
The planet is blue and equals life, space is black and equals death.
And the transition from one to the other happens way faster than you can imagine.
Maybe punting creatives into this echelon is a great way of getting them to come back down and persuade the rest of us that we live on a pretty special place and it's worth taking some inconvenience to protect the future generations.

And ironically his space jolly dumped even more crap in the atmosphere of a planet he now cares about. You've got to be some sort of idiot to need a trip to space to comprehend our fragility and what a thin layer of atmosphere we all shelter under.

[andy28]

My voice must sound like William Shanter, every time he is on TV and asks a question my Echo Dot (Alexa) says " According to Wikipedi ........................" and answers his effing question