inspired to find a man to take you for a ride to space
inspired to find a man to take you for a ride to space
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Celebrating 5 women giggling as they ride around in a rich man's vehicle while the rest of the world burns is the perfect 2025 moment. I'm reeling from the fact that their "motto" was "taking up space!"
The layers of irony are so thick they are collapsing upon themselves....
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The layers of irony are so thick they are collapsing upon themselves…
The era of irony has ended; we have entered the era of farce.
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The first 'female-only crew' in space is technically Valentina Tereshkova (she went alone). Not these women.
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Evil Russian Communist so she doesn't count
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Communists aren't evil. That stinks of red scare propaganda. Though apparently she did vote for the Ukrainian invasion, which sucks. And no, that doesn't devalue the achievements of the Soviet Space program. It does count.
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Also she actually had to do some work. Where's the fun in that?
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inspired to do what?
inspired to do what?
insert duck chasing meme
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Buy things, and receive cosmetic surgical treatments from Jeff Bezos
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Oops, all ads
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is this supposed to show people everything is alright, there is no sexism and misogyny? wow billionaires are really so out of touch with reality
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"Inspire Women"
Yea... so you mean like... checks notes
Electing the criminal con-artist that failed casinos multiple times, simply because he is male, over the qualified* women that ran against him? On TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS, BY TWO DIFFERENT CANDIDATES? One of the times the woman is even a prosecutor, and the con-artist have been convicted of 34 felonies, but apparenly being a morally-bankrupt criminal doesn't matter since he's male. So this is the "Inspiring Women"? 🤨
(*yes I know they are shitty in their own ways, but like at least they wouldn't fuck up the economy and cause people to be unemployed and fuck up the climate)
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The convicted rapist
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Trump is over 35 and a citizen. He's qualified. I know you want a female president just to have one.
Kamala was installed without a primary, which I know isn't necessary per the DNC rules, but apparently that mattered. And after admitting Biden isn't fit to run while Biden himself was determined to run, wasn't a good look.
DNC fucked your party over. It was a shit show for everyone. We're ready for the RIGHT female president. Not just a president just because they are female.
May I add, that Tulsi lasted longer in the 2020 primary than Kamala. What if it was Tulsi vs Trump? That would have been interesting to watch. (2020)
Perhaps the DNC will be better prepared in 2028 with a viable candidate.
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DNC fucked your party over. It was a shit show for everyone. We’re ready for the RIGHT female president. Not just a president just because they are female.
I gotta ask the "America is too misogynistic to elect a woman" crowd how Tammy Baldwin, Gretchen Witmer, Kristen Sinema, and Jodi Ernst were winning all those Trump states.
Hell, imagine if Witmer had run in the 2024 Dem Primary. She was a solid contender and she clearly has a reputation and platform that Midwesterners vibe with. She's not a fringe radical BernieBro, so Wall Street can stomach her. But she's also not a lightning rod like Hillary.
If you don't like Witmer, consider that Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobacher both significantly outperformed Harris during the 2020 primary.
All of them were fundamentally stronger candidates. But none of them were "in line" thanks to the whims of the 2020 Biden VP selection committee.
Crazy that Biden ran virtually unchallenged, then dumped the whole campaign in Harris's lap after a bad debate performance.
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It’s funny you think there will be a 2028 election.
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I found that this candidate’s campaign made a mistake. See? They jaywalked to reach their stage for a rally.
Now, raise your hand if you actually find that mistake to be important. That is an important and personal decision. By any normal standards, every candidate in every election has made mistakes. Just that the mistakes of the opponent were rape, insurrection, and repeated business failures.
Campaigns are short in some other countries; people aren’t often helped by getting signals about someone 8 months before elections.
In short, I accept basic adult criticism of Kamala, but not nearly enough to forgive people who voted against her. Yes, AIPAC has staggering influence in US politics, and sadly we couldn’t fix that with an election.
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The right candidate for the DMC probably ain't the candidate for you and me
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What would Katy Perry going to space even inspire girls to do? Get popular writing queer-bait songs and release mediocre pop albums? Become a dark horse? Look at that girls, if you can write mid-tier songs and wear skimpy outfits you too someday can become a passenger on a billionaire's cock rocket!
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can become a passenger on a billionaire’s cock rocket
for 10 full minutes, no less
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I encourage anyone who doesn’t already know who Max Martin is, to google him. He is a sweedish producer and songwriter. He has written a staggering amount of pop hits from 2000 on and a massive chunk of Katy Perry’s most well known songs. This girl boss owes her success to a man.
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It’s just more about letting your entire career be dictated by men even down to the “queerbait” as a very generic pop diva that’s truly uninspiring to women (and everyone in general if I’m honest). She’s a plant and it’s beyond obvious.
Which is why it makes it all so cringe.
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she went with jeff bozo's fiance. they basically polluted the fuck out the planet for no gain other than the egos of few ultra wealthy twats.
very inspiring to anyone who has $500,000 to ride a dick-shaped rocket to the outter atmoshphere instead of going to disney land-
Disney has increased their prices so much, that only rich people can afford it anymore. The really rich pay for private tours and special access. So what do they have to do to show that they are even better than the "average" rich person?
Go to space.
I hope this becomes the new staus symbol of the wealthy, and they start shooting up larger and larger tourist rockets, until one explodes and wipes out 100 Sociopathic Oligarchs at once.
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Are you guy caring after pollution now after encouraging people to burn electric cars for months
Really now
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no and any sane person should agree with you. anyone who damages a random person car just because its brand is psychopathic and evil pos. I never even scratch someone's else door in tiny parking lots because I wouldn't like it to happen to me. You remember when conservatives boycotted the shit out of budlight and started shooting it and wasting it? Yeah that's stupid too. I get what the boycotts accomplish but wasting something you already have is a negative. now imagine if they went out and destroyed/shoot someone's else beers who just bought it in his shopping cart? scummy hurtful shit no sane person disagrees
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Of course, they want Women In Space to be billboards, pretty things to look at and nothing more. Women are for procreation and decoration in their world.
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I bet those women working in Amazon fulfilment centers will be inspired by this as they work with a full bladder for fear of losing their jobs if they take too many bathroom breaks.
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Katy Perry was in space longer than those women are allowed to leave for piss breaks. Inspiring! /s
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Serious question: I Blue Origin actually doing anything else but celebrity joy-rides? If not, this has to be the most grotesque waste of resources I can think of.
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They haven't contributed to spaceflight advancement in truly innovative ways. At least SpaceX manages to catch some of their rockets when falling back to Earth. Blue Origin's only claim to fame is that it's a slightly more advanced vomit comet, which we've had for decades at this point.
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Their first orbital rocket, New Glenn, had its inaugural flight earlier this year. IIRC, it performed rather well in the "launch to orbit" aspect, but they lost the booster as it was coming back to land on a drone ship. It'll take them time to iron out the kinks, but as long as they don't scrap the project, I don't see why it couldn't become a contender in heavy lift.
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At this point they seem like joy rides. To start I remember them claiming they were using the data from New Shepard to learn how to best control and land the much larger and more expensive New Glenn rocket, which made sense. It's not like SpaceX is going to share how they manage to nail the landings so repeatedly, it's the secret to their success.
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If it pulled a Challenger, baby would have been a firework.
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I understand a trip into orbit is hard to pass up, but how could you not know what riding on Bezos' rocket would look like to the rest of us. It's just so gross.
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It wasn't even a trip into orbit. Their rather short voyage was a sub-orbital hop. A low orbit of Earth requires a speed on the order of 8 km per second - Blue Origin can make about Mach 3, from what I read, which is circa 1 km per second. You go up, you go down. That's it. They don't even go particularly high (~100 km), and the apogee doesn't keep you "above the atmosphere" (LOL) for long. Given the risks, I'm not sure it's worth it, personally.
If we really want to inspire people by pointing out women's accomplishments in spaceflight and space exploration, maybe we should be talking about people like Eileen Collins (astronaut on key shuttle/station missions), Lindy Elkin-Stanton (science lead for Psyche, the first to a metallic asteroid), Maria Zuber (lead the GRAIL mission to the Moon, co-discovered the rifts in the Ocean of Storms), or Mimi Aung (lead engineer for the Ingenuity 'copter on Mars 2020). And I've only mentioned a few Americans with recent work here; the rest of the world has plenty of enterprising female space scientists and aerospace engineers.
I share the general distaste in this thread and on Lemmy generally for this sort of celebrity stunt, and I'm glad to see the criticism. I do sometimes think, however, that for a certain kind of person, Bezos and Musk are becoming associated or even synonymous with spaceflight/exploration generally, which is a dangerous association to make. People have many, diverse and very legitimate reasons for going to space - there's a lot more going on than joyrides and ego trips.
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The funny thing is news sites are barely, if not at all, talking about the only two female scientists on board. If you don't know their names, you will not even be able to find it in most articles because all they care about are Katy Perry and Laurent Sanchez. lol truly a historic victory for the common female
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I do sometimes think, however, that for a certain kind of person, Bezos and Musk are becoming associated or even synonymous with spaceflight/exploration generally, which is a dangerous association to make. People have many, diverse and very legitimate reasons for going to space - there’s a lot more going on than joyrides and ego trips.
I do want to elaborate on that, if you don't mind.
I'm all for spaceflight and mars settlement because it has many advantages. One of the most relevant ones is that it can stimulate the economy. Think about what the 1960s Moon mission did to the US: It inspired people and created jobs. Now think mars settlement could do something similar, but bigger. That in itself is a big win for the US, though there are more reasons to go, such as technological breakthrough and getting rid of the billionaires from Earth. There are more reasons to go, ofc, such as distracting Trump from wreaking havoc on the environment and minorities (remember: trump bashes against minorities because he needs to keep his voters voting for him by demonstrating power. If he can do something less destructive to demonstrate power, such as helping make settlements on mars, that hopefully is enough to satisfy his voters and makes it easier to shift his focus away from minorities).
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I'm waiting for one of these propaganda stunts to end like that submersible that imploded and turned all those rich bitches into goo.
And I'll laugh.
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“Look girls, IM REALLY RICH! Bezos might have destroyed thousands of women’s lives, but he sent ME to space! Idolize me for being so rich I get everything for free! Bow down peasants!”
I wish it would have exploded and so people could dance in the rain of her blood.
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I don’t even pay attention to that vapid idiot anymore, and I’ve got full-blown Katy Perry fatigue from all this bullshit being blasted in everyone’s face. What a bunch of pretentious, gross assholes who failed to read the room at a time when it seriously needs to be read.
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are you saying it's not inspirational for women to have your filthy rich husband pay for your unnecessary trip in a rocket? i would feel so empowered and self-reliant!
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It's gross enough to have them be completely unqualified and just pay for a joyride in space while marketing it as some feminist achievement. Why add the stuff about husbands paying? I'm sure Katy Perry is rich enough for several trips to space.
Bashing women by claiming that they're only worth what their husbands give them is outdated and stinky. We can do better than that... Let's hate people in new and improved ways!
Perhaps for the gross things they actually do and say, like choosing to participate in this expensive PR-stunt to cover up the erasure of actual astronauts, regardless of who is paying..?
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Alternative title: Inspired to find a man to take you for a ride in his space penis
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🎵 now I ain’t sayin she’s a gold digger
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You just know Bezos' in new pickup line is "hey baby, you wanna ride my dick into outer space?"
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Katy + Lauren = Space Karen
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It’s telling that even Russel Brand divorced her. He’s insufferable. Guarantee she is too.
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If you read up on it it's pretty clear he was entirely shit to her and she wasn't quite full on persona-fied.
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They also removed the comic they hosted about women astronauts...
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Can you post it here?
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Here is the archive.org page for it. It only got 2 issues out before they deleted it, but you can download them there.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250314045755/https://www.nasa.gov/calliefirst/
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Great, now we'll get shitty pop music based on "4 minutes in space"™
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I've looked back at the Earth, it's quite a view.
A new height for me to look down on you,
I'm the Queen of space and you are a peasant.
Stuck to the ground, it's so unpleasant.I've been to space and I'm better than you,
I've been to space and I'm better than you,
I've been to space and I'm better than you,
I've been to space and I'm better than you. -
written by 50 producers, focus tested over 100 iterations, lip synced to when "performed" live, and scores a bajillion dollars.
And people hate AI for some reason. Obviously this shit will be overflowing with "SoulTM "
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Pop music is ai v0
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I don’t understand why Katy Perry. Janelle Monáe has songs about space, has talked about wanting to go to space, and is a competent musician. If you are doing this stunt, why do you want the “artist” behind E.T.?
It feels like a weird attempt to do some fake “girl power” feminism to distract from the fact that NASA is seriously purging female employees, probably going to retool Artemis to not focus on female astronauts as part of this anti-DEI program - while at the same time this kind of news story puts the reactionary chodes into overdrive, because this is presented as a “feminist” action. (And like no - this is tourism. It’s almost gross to brag about having an “all female crew” when this is just a tourist stunt. If you wanted to do a badass “first all female crew since the Soviets!” thing, then maybe show off women doing science?)
Like it’s Bezos wife, and a couple of women with industry credentials. The engineers I met who were working on Psyche would deserve that opportunity and might benefit from it - this is no different than someone “climbing Everest” on the back of a Sherpa.
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Two things can be shit at the same time. Still more human input than suno ai slop
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And it will win a Grammy for "Song of the Year."
We've come a long way from that woke song "We Are The World."
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You made the celebrity culture. You love it so much you've elected celebrities to the highest offices in your country multiple times watched them rear apart your institutions and then elected them again. Just happened recently again if you hadn't noticed. You've done this to yourselves. Only you can change it.
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tear*
and no I didn't. :) fix your typo please, it's embarrassingly hypocritical to criticize someone's intelligence while misusing your language
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and no I didn’t.
This is not a complete sentence and you failed to capitalize the first letter.
fix your typo
You failed to capitalize the first letter here as well.
while misusing your language
You also failed to add punctuation to the end of this sentence.
Everyone makes mistakes. I know I certainly do. I probably made a few in this comment. It was probably a mistake to even type this comment out, but I just wanted to point this all out.
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How American of you. Not my first language. The exception is my country won't deport me to a death camp for it. Now go fight your dictator instead of bitching at me. Criticize your intelligence. I didn't but I am happy you think I did. It just proves my point further. Keep those blinders on and try an English class. I have a feeling my understanding of the language is more advanced than yours. <This is me actually insulting your intelligence.
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circus & bread, ah yes look the pretty famous girls and remember this stunt and not the shit we're doing
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Soon, even the bread will become scarce.
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There will be no bread but we will still be surrounded by clowns
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Sounds like a fun ride, but there was no orbit, nor were they flying the ship. I feel more inspired by the women who have went into orbit far above the Karman line and have flown spacecraft.
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Inspiring “rich” women
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Incorrect use of "checks notes" but yeah the removal of any and all reporting of accomplishments from every minority on every government website is something we should all be very aware of
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“…Astrology…”
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Suni Williams would like a word.
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something something Circuses
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Inspired to be a rich woman like Katy Perry. She has 350 million USD net worth.
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This post makes no sense, they launched with Blue Origin. It has nothing to do with NASA.
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I think you're misunderstanding, but it's an easy one with the phrasing.
It's not that women are being inspired by Blue Origin to go into aerospace. Its that this intangible PR stunt of "Inspiration" does little good for women who work/worked for NASA that are being scrubbed away.
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In fairness to Katy Perry, it's not her fault women at NASA are getting sacked and deleted from history.
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Is she using her celebrity to speak out against it?
No.
But why would we expect any better from someone who got her start in Christian entertainment, and later married MAGA Mouthpiece (and rapist) Russell Brand?
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Any woman who receives something good, did it by trading sexual favors
Aisha Bowe is an actual aerospace engineer, Amanda Nguyen an activist for sexual assault victims, and the rest are either rich, powerful, celebrity, or combination. Except Sanchez.
A PR stunt to deflect from Bezos’ permanent duck-faced fiancée getting a free ride does not mean the rest are strumpets who blew their way to the top. Exceptionally poor judgement yes, and they deserve derision for that.
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