It wasn’t the trip itself thats particularly viewed as problematic, it was the atrociously patronizing marketing surrounding it and that Katy Perry is just a generally vile person. Nobody is begrudging Amanda Nguyen or Aisha Bowe being along on this trip, they’ve dedicated their lives to the celebration of science and supporting the work of legitimate astronauts (and I suppose arguably so has Shatner, though he’s not exactly a man of flawless character)
William Shatner was very much dumped on. Not by us, but by Mister Proper himself.
Shatner: “It was such a humbling experience, I just…”
Bezos:"Shut up man. Just pop some champagne and act like you’re celebrating with these cheap hookers I hired for you. "
Hooker:“WOOoOooOo!!!”
That’s stupid though. Why the fuck does some weird nerds try to gatekeep the title “astronaut”? Katy Perry’s role on the flight was about equal to Yuri Gagarin in terms of controlling the ship.
Anyways, it’s just a publicity stunt by the ultra rich marketing it as feminist achievement, that’s what you should be shitting on
in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created: the commercial astronaut.
Let’s not mix the people who saw colleagues die and put their own lives on the line for science with the human billboard receiving money to advertise a rich fuck’s commercial vanity project that’s already been deemed safe (in no small parts due to it being tested by actual astronauts beforehand).
I don’t understand the Katy Perry hate. William Shatner took the same space trip and wasn’t dumped on.
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It wasn’t the trip itself thats particularly viewed as problematic, it was the atrociously patronizing marketing surrounding it and that Katy Perry is just a generally vile person. Nobody is begrudging Amanda Nguyen or Aisha Bowe being along on this trip, they’ve dedicated their lives to the celebration of science and supporting the work of legitimate astronauts (and I suppose arguably so has Shatner, though he’s not exactly a man of flawless character)
At least Shatner’s a professional fake astronaut?
William Shatner was very much dumped on. Not by us, but by Mister Proper himself.
Shatner: “It was such a humbling experience, I just…”
Bezos:"Shut up man. Just pop some champagne and act like you’re celebrating with these cheap hookers I hired for you. "
Hooker:“WOOoOooOo!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GQoHIBDogU
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That’s stupid though. Why the fuck does some weird nerds try to gatekeep the title “astronaut”? Katy Perry’s role on the flight was about equal to Yuri Gagarin in terms of controlling the ship.
Anyways, it’s just a publicity stunt by the ultra rich marketing it as feminist achievement, that’s what you should be shitting on
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Let’s not mix the people who saw colleagues die and put their own lives on the line for science with the human billboard receiving money to advertise a rich fuck’s commercial vanity project that’s already been deemed safe (in no small parts due to it being tested by actual astronauts beforehand).