Watch Capt. Kirk live boldly goes were Bezos has been before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhmp8CtROlE
Captain Kirk Blue Origin Space Flight (Live at 15:50 UK Time)
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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!
Amazing!
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.
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.
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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.greenmark wrote: ↑Wed Oct 13, 2021 6:52 pm.
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.