LPC-newb riles up DUmmies who are all pissed off at Blue Origin for making the womenz look silly. Apparently, it was on purpose that the vehicle was completely under automated control, and it was all done as a stunt to make the womenz look deficient and incapable.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220242175RJ-MacReady (343 posts)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 06:52 AM
unpopular opinion perhaps
I find the Blue Origin orbital flight with Katy Perry and the rest to be wholly out of touch and a gross flaunting of wealth. This needs to be condemned not applauded.
brush (59,516 posts)
56. Same here. Not even one woman astronaut aboard for appearance of command and control...
Reply to questionseverything (Reply #1)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 09:55 AM
appearance being the 'key' word because one was not needed for the brief sub-orbital, 10-minute joy ride.
Bastards! Oh wait, it's the same as every flight before it.
58Sunliner (5,609 posts)
3. I will say if they were men of industry, we wouldn't give this as much negative attention.
Reply to RJ-MacReady (Original post)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 07:04 AM
They are women with careers who have chosen to orbit the planet. Not a good use of resources, and the attempt by Bezos and his partner to use this as a pr stunt given that Bezos and his partner bent their knees to a fascist rapist, is nauseating. Katy Perry looks tone deaf and complicit for not understanding that she is normalizing them.
THERE it is...
LisaM (29,111 posts)
5. While slashing the NASA budget.
Reply to RJ-MacReady (Original post)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 07:16 AM
I agree completely and it lowers my opinion of Katy Perry and Gayle King.
BUT... you thought they were GENIOUS then they told you to save the world and vote for the cackling lunatic brown lady, right?
who would would have thought that the DUmmies would find a way to hate women going to space.