i know it’s supposed to be like a “feminist” “first all female crew in space” thing and all but i mean did they even do anything of note or of any importance, like, scientifically i guess or were they just there for a few minutes and went back down just for the photo op and to say they did it?
i mean surely it would be more significant and historical from a feminist point of view if they actually did anything up there? like it doesn’t seem like it holds any importance whatsoever other than virtue signaling lol…i’ve seen articles calling it “historic” but i don’t think anything warrants it being called historic at all
like don’t get me wrong i’m not trying to criticize womens’ accomplishments but it just doesn’t seem like much of an accomplishment to me to be allowed to fart around in space for 10 minutes by a billionaire currently trying to ruin the world
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I just hope she doesn’t blow up in the sky like a firework.
It’s a publicity thing for Bezos and Blue Origin.
I’m sure there are plenty of people who have a scientific interest in seeing video of Katy Perry in freefall but that’s not why they did it.
She’s a celebrity. They were trying to get attention from people who might otherwise not pay attention to a space mission. That’s all.
It’s a stunt/publicity thing for Blue Origin and for her.
I think it’s also possible she just wanted to. Like, as a person. She was asked if she would go to space and it was offered to her to buy a ticket, and she wanted to experience that. Outside of whatever publicity and so on, she’s rich and maybe she thought it would be interesting to do.
Some other actors like Tom Hanks have talked about being offered to go on Blue Origin, but didn’t want to pay the cost. In Hanks’ case it’s clearly due to his role on Apollo 13. He also said they wanted money for the trip. Perry has used space related imagery before in her work, so maybe it’s why she was offered the chance to go.
What’s the point of anyone doing anything of leisure/adventure?
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Right now Blue Origin is primarily a space tourism company. The trip they did today – as well as all the other celebrities they’ve taken into space recently – are for the purposes of tourism, and promoting their tourism offerings. They serve no scientific purpose.
For funsies
PR.
Nothing but that.
I mean…if I had the money I would. Blue Origin is space tourism and at the end if the day that was the point.
Looking at it and what Blue Origin has been primarily been doing, I don’t really think there is a point. Blue Origin was likely given a sum of money to take some people up, and Katy Perry just happens to be part of that payload.
It’s not feminist, it’s advertising for Bezos.
She’s rich
It’s space tourism and rich people want to do it
This is not a hard concept to understand
Theres this thing called capitalism where corporations want money so they offer services, and other people give them money for said services. Katy Perry paid for a seat on the rocket, so they flew her to space.
Theres literally no point
Its just Jeff Bezos trying to safe face… and Katy Perry let him use her for a publicity trick
I held my breath thinking it was gonna be like the submarine last summer five rich people going into the ocean that don’t come back.
Not feminist- they aren’t brainiacs
$$$
It can get both very hot and very cold up in space so they needed an expert in that field.
It’s a private company. They aren’t doing things for the betterment of mankind. Nor do they need to if it’s private money.
They wanted to study how boobs work in anti-grav, I reckon!
Publicity is the only feasible answer. I doubt any real feminists cared about this.
It’s as pointless as when the guys do it. The point was press for Blue Origin and Perry.
“In Space, no one can hear how badly you sing!”.
They can’t sell the seats so they are giving it away as advertisement
because she fuckin can??
It’s historic in the same way that a movie poster called the Emoji movie historic; for the purposes of marketing sure but in reality? Nah.
No point aside from promoting a thing for rich people. Billionaires and the US government have made it clear that space is not for the poors or the people.
Billionaires are beyond gender. They are all just wealth-hoarding garbage nets. You childhood space dreams have been devoured by the same dragons that eat everything else.
The word “crew” seems inappropriate. So the next time I fly, I plan to ask for ask for a crew discount.
Just rich people doing rich people shit.
She went to space? Good for her.
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The flight was suborbital. They went up, and then gravity took them back down. The craft didn’t have anywhere near enough fuel to circularize the orbit and stay for any length of time.
Cuz she’s rich. Ya telling me if you had the cash you wouldn’t go to space?
First female astronaut/s?
The Russians did that in the 60`s!
That Was historic, todays launch was ..
erm? just a rocket launch, theres been thousands.
is this your first time seeing a celebrity used as a prop or stunt for some ulterior purpose or cause?
Also, it’s not hard for anything to do with public space travel to be “historic” since it’s still a brand new thing. Historic is an over-used word if you ask me and doesn’t even mean “good” much less more than that.
People can say what they want about any event in the form of quotes or news stories or however… I wouldn’t cling to them too much.
So they could stay relevant in the media.
Squirrel!
Same as the point of sending any human into space any more.
1000% optics.
Can we just leave her out there?
There’s no point, it’s just cool to go to space and they have the money to do it
They wanted to see what them thangs did in zero gravtitty, for science
All these women propping up Bezos is the antithesis of feminism. Instead they all should have cancelled, called out Bezos as the criminal traitor he is, and urged a boycott of Amazon and all Bezos companies. Instead they said fuck everyone else, we want to go on his penis rocket.
The “point” is probably just that she wanted to if I had to guess
Seems to me, the whole point was publicity. To get people talking about it. You fell right into the trap!
And this released how many hundreds of tons of CO2 and other noxious chemicals into the atmosphere? And for what purpose? A shiny, new thing for rich people to destroy the Earth with. Yay!
She’s become irrelevant and now her name has been in the news all day. Celebrity win.
So she could jump of the steps like a child, then dramatically kiss the ground for attention
Because she rides Harleys in Hawaii.
The whole thing was a publicity stunt. The flight was automated and controlled on the ground. Anybody could have done it. They could have sent a dog into space and achieved the same result. They went for a fun ride. There was nothing special or historic about it.
Maybe she just wanted to give E.T. more street cred
So I don’t disagree that this is all a silly stunt and is absolutely meaningless in terms of science. But to give the statements a little bit of credit… It’s just barely been 50 years since laws changed to allow women to have their own bank accounts in the US, and it was another almost decade before Sally Ride became the first American woman in space. The fact that women could be independently wealthy enough to buy a trip to space is… an indicator of growth, at least.
jeff bezos probably gave her a lot of money to advertise space-tourism. at the same time she was hoping to make some headlines, since she isn’t doing too well currently (afaik).
there a line in a movie where someone says they shouldn’t send a scientist to space, they should send a poet
I had no idea this happened, I thought at first you were complaining about the video she was with Kanye lmao.
Hoping she won’t come back is my assumption??
she a firework
Listen, I’m a woman and I could give a shit who the crew is but if I had a chance to go to space I’d go. There’s nothing in this world I’d want more than to do that. I’ll never have enough money to do it but if I could, that would be something I’ve already probably done multiple times. The real question is, if you have that kind of money, what’s the point of not going to space?
The point was her wanting to go to space
So this is how I find out that Katy Perry’s in space right now.
Huh.
I’m pretty sure nobody cared at all and no real person is claiming it as a win for anything except publicity.
Same for that old guy….
William something
It’s just a celebrity doing something, and that’s the point.
Just don’t understand why she needed to kiss the dirt when she got back.
I mean if I had fuck you money I’d probably go to space
More publicity for her E.T. song hehe, also Kanye’s influence.
It’s like when that submarine guy was inviting celebs to visit the titanic. It’s marketing. Fortunately that rocket ride is safer than the sub ride.
Not crew, passengers.
None.
This isn’t “feminist.” She’s no astronaut. The whole flight is automated. She was cargo.
If you had fuck all money, and if you were offered a ticket to go to space, would you say no?
That flight was 80% silicone and 20% women.
Shinny keys to distract.
Propaganda
To piss me off and prove that rich people can have way more fun, and live out my life dream, while I just reboot computers for a living and struggle to even do something that makes me remotely happy.
I’d guess none of them paid for it themselves and this is a publicity stunt by Bezos.
it isn’t historic. none of the passengers did anything but sit there.
It’s just an advert for Blue Origin and a way for Bezos to pretend he gives a shit about feminism by pretending to have put the first all woman crew into space. Nevermind that the thing is autonomous/remote controlled from the ground when necessary and that the woman did literally nothing but look out the window and take photos of each other. It’s like me claiming I flew to China as part of the crew because I once paid to be a passenger on a plane there.
Money. The point is only money.
Kary going into space means that we can talk about Katy going into space.
Before now was the no Katy in space drought 😪
How soon we forget.
Personally, I would like to take away from the historical importance of this being the first all female space flight. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space in 1963 and there weren’t any men on her mission, so Vostok 6 was the first all female space flight 60 years ago, this is just a tourism flight that happens to be all female, nothing particularly notable about it
It was a tourism and publicity flight. If Bezos asked me, I’d go too.
The irony of a gaggle of women going to space in a penis shaped rocket will stay in my memory forever. They rode that rocket like a champ and screamed weeeee weeeee weeeee all the way home.
To show how rich she is
How much does 4 minutes of zero G cost anyway?
I just wanted to hear Amazon play her firework song at the launch
Idk, I was kinda hoping for another accident
Nothing feminist about Katy Perry.
She needed to distract from her flop album
what was the point of Shatner going into space
It’s nothing but a photo op. Has fuck all to do with science.
She had money. They had a carney ride. She paid to gone on the ride. Whee!
The implication.
She’s rich enough to go. That’s all.
It might have been a good exercise of going into space, and it didn’t matter who was actually inside. So they chose famous people for the publicity value, but the real purpose of the flight was simply to practice the technology.
Making rich idiots pay for space technology development seems a good deal to me
So people will talk about her, but not her album.
I know the answer to this one!
She needed to do something to get her name in people’s heads again and she didn’t want to put out a sex tape.
Keeps the aliens away
To get you to talk about it
Distract you from the crumbling economy
I really feel like I need to ask who the pilot was or if it was remote controlled or what. Lauren Sánchez is a helicopter pilot..was it Aisha Bowe?
Ninja edit / have since discovered that the flight is autonomous.
This is not the first all female space flight. The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, flew solo in the Vostok-6 in 1963.
https://www.space.com/21571-valentina-tereshkova.html
How would you even know what she’s upto? What kinda nonsense are you watchin?
To get people who normally don’t care about space to care about space.
No point, she paid money and got to go. No historic moment when six female celebrities paid probably a few million each at minimum for a ten-minute flight to still not be in “outer space,” just really high up in air space.
In space, no one can hear you roar.
Moments like this remind me that there’s a world for the wealthy – and a very different one for the rest of us.
They were not crew. Neither was William shatner etc. passengers
“do you ever feel like a plastic bag…”
Rich people doing rich people things
Publicity stunt because her career is in the dumpster.
She must be experiencing a middle age crisis.
The screaming they did made me think something was wrong at first. It was low key embarrassing.
Publicity for the company
Why the fuck not? If you have the opportunity to go to fucking outer space on a rocket ship, you take it.
This wasn’t the first all female space crew.
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