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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
You know, I was confused when I heard about the "all women" crew. I was like, "how forward after all the craziness happening."
But it's just more rich fucks. And how fucking tone deaf. Read the fucking room. "You're all losing jobs and being denied rights? But what if a billionaire took a millionaire into space? Wouldn't that be inspiring!"
I mean, they're not wrong that billionaires going to space is just mocking people...
6 influencers going into space, not astronauts.
Rich people are the devil
Well, if this is some attempt at a virgin sacrifice, I don't think they're doing it right.
Yeah but practice makes perfect
if i were a deity, i’d rather have some fun people sacrificed than a bunch of boring virgins….
Pretty sure one of them ain't a virgin. Could be wrong but id bet a beer on it
These Mark Dice types are always behind the times. Baphomet was so 2010. DEI and Great Replacement are the cool thing now.
Just shooting rich people into space (and letting them return) for no particular reason is dumb enough. We really don't need you to make it even dumber.
Just think, they can take the Challenger express after they deregulate everything.
Any plans for that submarine company to go into rocketry?
I am, however, a big fan of shooting billionaires. Into space, or otherwise.
Saves a lot of money if you worry about the followup later.
This is a rich people's vanity project. Spinning it as some kind of victory for womens' empowerment is complete bullshit.
Especially when you're removing the names of women who actually achieved something.
It's just Jeff who wanted a bunch of famous women to have a ride on his giant dick shaped rocket.
just like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris running for president….
i very much want a woman president, but not just any woman and voting for them solely because they’re women with virtually no other accomplishments (i did vote for both of them, but just because trump is cheeto hitler)
Who is spinning it that way? I'm really asking. I keep seeing this story in memes but I'm out of the loop
From what I've seen, that's the spin coming from the participants themselves.
The news media
Society really fucking hates women
Not if we’re quietly having babies and keeping house.
Only 50 years has passed since a good effort has been made to make us equal under the law and people are still losing their damn minds. This is the minor side of it, the rise of the far right is the worst of it.
I anticipate MAGA going full force on declining birth rates once their done with their sledgehammers and bank account fill ups. Trump probably cleaned out Fort Knox.
I might just be seeing things, but do those flight suits have flared bottoms?
Bezos has gone too far, he must be stopped.
Omg, you are right! That is just the height of arrogance since the only way they could actually provide any protection in the case of a decompression, you know, the thing that is the only job of an extra atmospheric flight suit, would be if there was an air tight sleeve attached to the boots. That would make the pants just fashion and wasted weight being launched. The extra kg of fabric would not add a lot to the fuel costs, but it would be measurable.
One group of billionaires went squish under the ocean, another is going to end up finding out how they make astronaut food in space.
Somebody’s been watching Season 3 of Agents of SHIELD and thinking it’s a documentary
OKAY, sure, but the bottom two remind me a bit of...
...IA! fthagn!!!
Bezos and Musk are both the type to lazily rip off movie villains
That's a pretty great coincidence. Upright you're an astronaut, but flip and you're the agent of the devil
These super secretive world controlling organisations are not very good at not putting their symbols everywhere
Ah, yes, 'they'. I forgot about this secret group who jokingly use symbols and codes to hint at what they're really up to, like it's some rule that you can't be fully secretive and have to leave clues for the big-brains who are in the know.
I used to look into conspiracy stuff, and came out laughing at them after seeing the first tRump presidency, and realizing the government isn't even smart enough to handle actual problems, let alone a "NWO" ("New World Order"). Sorry guys, incompetence all the way up!
P.S. I never fully believed them, but some of the stuff was interesting to think about at the least. Now, I don't ever care about them because they make less sense than ever. Jewish space lasers, amiright?
They just want you to think they're incompetent...
I grew up loving The X-Files, so conspiracy stuff was always interesting to me. I never bought into any of it, but it used to be fun.
I blame reality TV for our current state. They took what was probably one of the best tropes in sci-fi, started talking about it in documentary form, and a whole generation of brainless fucking idiots took it way too seriously, ruining it for the rest of us. Shows like Ancient Aliens took the whole "just asking questions" tactic to insane levels, and it bled over into politics and social issues, providing cover for people to "question" if wildfires may have been started by Jewish space lasers. It's so infuriating.
I get that. I used to follow (not believe) conspiracy theories because it's so fantastical that I read them as like, life fanfic.
But these people don't share my type of interest in it. They're more like Christians pushing their beliefs.
The reality is that we're all just human. None better than the rest. But the thing is no individual or even group can say they 100% now how the full functions of the economic machine we've built even work. Let alone geopolitics or the myriad of other functions of the global society. We're all on a ship with no captain or crew, and while we try to get the smartest people in the right positions to figure it out and get us moving the right direction, it doesn't always work when we succeed and definitely not when we fail.
Man this would be so cool if true, but sadly it's just rich people showing off
Katy Perry was real life 30 Rock's Jenna Maroney. Here are some of her literal quotes while in space
"It's not about me, I'm here to talk about the world."
She then sings
"We're going to put the ass in astronaut."
"for the benefit of Earth."
That would be so much cooler than what it actually was.
having baphomet on the patch would have gone so hard and would have been 10x cooler though
This is the clearest case I have ever seen of pareidolia I have ever seen, and I saw people talking about sphinxes on Mars.