I have an uneasy feeling about this. It has simulation hypothesis written all over it.
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Who?
The original Captain Kirk from Star Trek. And he is 90, this is a stunt by Bezos because Elon Musk, his competition, passed him in total wealth. I hope that Shatner survives the experience because it is a lot of gravity pull to overcome for an old heart.
I tuned in just in time for the touch-down, that was a pretty solid jolt, too.
Publicity stunt, or not, who gives a shit. How awesome to see Cpt. Kirk reach space, and he beat any Vulcan, Klingon or Romulan there, too! I hope he sat in the captain’s seat.
Cpt. Kirk was my biggest childhood hero, it is almost inconceivable that I have now reached the age of 61 and William Shatner is still going strong. My other big childhood hero was Richard Petty, amazing that he is still going, too. My best wishes to both of them.
90 years old.
Gotta give him props for that.
At that age I’d probably be a drooling twat like the Turnip that currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
He’s almost old enough to run for Congress.
I wonder if he ordered warp factor 2 after liftoff?
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boldly go, right? i’ve had bowel movements that
lasted longer than this crass publicity stunt.
nice that billionaires have hobbies, huh?
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You seen one giant, flying white penis, you seen them all.
I seem to remember a space disaster where a teacher, untrained in space travel, was killed by unnecessary space flight decades ago.
These leisurely trips to space, will again, result in a tragic accident soon, and the same questions will surface.
Space travel is dangerous.
Indeed.
However what a wonderful way for Shatner to be buried … in space … going boldly where no corpse has ever gone before. I wonder whether THAT isn’t the REAL Mission? … speaking of simulation hypothesis.
If he wants his remains in space, he could always use this service:
One of its clients was James Doohan. Yup, a bit of Scotty is up there.
By the way, I’ve heard that Celestis launches are quite popular with friends and relatives of the deceased, having a festival atmosphere. The rockets go up with the crowds cheering and applauding.
As I recall, they lost his ashes so he never really made it into space…
One mission did go into the drink. I’m not sure which had Doohan’s ashes.
I want to go like Hunter S Thompson … blasted out of a cannon. Hopefully into the faces of Extinction Rebels … or similar group of know-nothings
Yeah, but Hunter had to shoot himself in the head, first.
I will dispense with that gruesome and depressing part …
Well, he wouldn’t be buried in space as they are not going into orbit. Not a bad idea though.
Actually, they would be in space if they are higher than the von Karman line, which is generally regarded as the boundary.
They won’t be. The US redefined “space” a few years ago explicitly so private launch companies could claim they’re getting there, but the US redefinition is a couple miles below the von Karman line.
What these private launches really are is high-speed ballistic suborbital flights. Which is a pretty impressive achievement and possibly the successor to the Concorde, but having to redefine what “space” means just so you can claim you got there is pretty pathetic optics.
Sheesh… talk about your proliferation of space junk …
My definition of being in space is gaining an orbit where you burn up on reentry without the proper ship. The edge of space is just more BS. You ain’t there yet no matter who’s definition you chose.
VOWG:
One reason for the definition was legal. Before Sputnik, Eisenhower wanted to know if orbital overflights of another country’s territory would be considered a violation of its airspace.
Beyond a certain altitude, one would be considered to be in space and, therefore, those flights weren’t within someone else’s boundaries.
So politics created an non-definition. Make no wonder we find ourselves in the shit we are in.
VOWG:
Keep in mind that there are several atmospheric profiles that are used, depending upon the jurisdiction or organization. Whichever one is used influences the design of hardware in such aspects as drag calculations.
Regarding Eisenhower’s concerns, remember that the space race was part of the Cold War. He had to make sure that an American satellite wasn’t seen as violating Soviet airspace as that could be treated as a hostile action. They wanted to make sure that any of their spacecraft were indeed in space, which nobody owned or could legitimately claim.
I remember the drink that they named after that flight – 7 up and a splash of Teachers.
Is he hoping to get it on with a green woman?
At his age, I’m sure he won’t mind if she’s green. ~:D
Star Trek – Orion Slave Girls
353,319 views14 Nov 2009 (good editing on this vid(several trek generations))
And going “green” is so trendy now. Go get ’em Cap’n Kirk!
(I’m so jealous.) 😉
He’ll be fine, even on Bezos’ Johnny-come-lately suborbital shitrocket.
Yeah … this “technical boundary of space” thing is … well … quite … boring. And the trips only slightly longer than the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland
It’s not going to happen. This is all a stunt by Bezos to take the focus off his unpopular first flight. Shatner will back out for some reason, but the flight will take place.
Well Johnny Boy, it turned out you are so wrong. Eat your hat.
I’m on the periphery of our Australian space community, such as it is; and while I despise Bezos almost as much as I do Musk, I rather like what I see of Blue Origin’s more cautious and more technological ‘slow and steady’ approach.
I’m not a great Shatner fan, either. But if they manage to kill him off in this somehow, it’ll likely kill Blue Origin off as well!!! “Blue Origin; the company that killed Captain Kirk”!
I think the term is “ I have a bad feeling about this”
Anyway….. yeah. One of these trips is going to go south. (Maybe will take news away from covid 24/7?). Hope all goes well for Kirk though.
How come there is no whining of the carbon and environmental impact of leisure space travel? Richard?
Never any “talk” , meaning widespread media criticism, of elite a-holes spreading green manure to the masses for us killing the planet, while their carbon footprint is benign.
We know that already, rich man, poor man. Pitchforks.
All the best William, go get Shatnerd.
Alan Shepard was unavailable for comment on what is basically a re-enactment of his 60 year old achievement.
Nor was Gus Grissom.
Remember Fred Ward playing Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff? Mr. Grissom died in that capsule fire though.
Shepard’s mission was already scheduled when Gagarin went up as was, I believe, Grissom’s. Both were sub-orbital. That ended after Titov’s 24-hour flight later in 1961. The next Mercury mission was John Glenn in Friendship 7.
Grissom went on to command the first Gemini mission and was the commander of Apollo 1, dying with Ed White and Roger Chaffee in the fire.
And, yes, I do remember Fred Ward’s portrayal in the movie The Right Stuff. I’m not sure how accurate it was, but Grissom was known for being surly at times. In the post-fire Senate hearing, Frank Borman described him as being an “ornery SOB” but also as someone he would trust with his life.
Shatner has reached that age where a lot of people see all their friends and peers gone and they don’t mind death. Maybe he figures this would be a great way to go.
He’ll be OK, as long as he doesn’t wear a red shirt…
“Expendable crew member please report to the transporter room.”
Shatner got 3-1/2 minutes of weightlessness …
The Space Mountain Ride at Disneyland is 3 minutes long.
And the cost of each ride are getting frighteningly close to one another.
Free admission to Disneyland is probably buried in that $3.5 trillion dollar infrastructure bill somewhere; although it might be exclusively for illegal aliens.
Yes, right after Disneyland is Nationalized. After all, the government should be the one controlling the Bread and Circus’s … Right?
Kenji, ++++
That is implicit in the concept of Bread and Circus’s.
I can’t stop laughing.
Naturally he’s on a ship shaped like that. Mike Myers would be proud, or something.
Yes, Bezos is pretty blatant about his space penis envy.
Meh. I have a ho hum attitude about the whole thing. Just another gazillionaire with a cool toy and he’s letting us watch. BFD.
Wait a couple of weeks and he’ll be pissing and moaning about how the rest of us are destroying the planet. Ok Jeff.
Good on Shatner though. Good to know we no longer need fitness tests for space travel.
It’s not just that. It establishes a new proven maximum age limit.
Amazing. Two Internet Billionaires put together organizations that are flying to space, but NASA, Boeing and SLS with its long and storied history cannot?
Meanwhile Elon Musk has flown how many dozens of rockets? Yes, Some blew up, usually after they flew the mission, and were landing to be reused. He even purposefully blew rockets up on the test stand to see how strong they were. And they learned from each and every flight, successes and failures both, and Musk is now launching satellites almost weekly AND flying supplies and people to the International Space Station.
The second SLS flight made by the experts at NASA and Boeing might launch sometime next year, after being delayed how many times this year?
Credentialed Experts? Lord, this sounds like like every failed corporation and Blue state
Bureaucracy is your friend.
Part of the problem with the SLS (which some wag dubbed the “Senate Launch System”) was that it was mandated by Congress. We can thank Senator Richard Shelby for that one as he made sure that it was built at the Marshall Spaceflight Centre in Huntsville….. which just happened to be in his congressional district.
NASA has moved on to … more woke … pursuits. Global Warming and Minority hiring. After all … once NASA stopped hiring the best and the brightest and instead rolled the dice of “suitable ethnicity” for their cushy government jobs … NASA needed to dumb-down their Mission to fucking with temperature data. Mission accomplished. NASA now declares we are all gonna DIE!! We are all killing the planet with each degree above ambient we heat our homes.
Nice work, if you have the ethnicity and bias to get it …
Don’t forget reaching out to Mohammedans, thanks to your former Mohammedan-in-chief, Barry O’Bummer.
Who?
The original Captain Kirk from Star Trek. And he is 90, this is a stunt by Bezos because Elon Musk, his competition, passed him in total wealth. I hope that Shatner survives the experience because it is a lot of gravity pull to overcome for an old heart.
I tuned in just in time for the touch-down, that was a pretty solid jolt, too.
Publicity stunt, or not, who gives a shit. How awesome to see Cpt. Kirk reach space, and he beat any Vulcan, Klingon or Romulan there, too! I hope he sat in the captain’s seat.
Cpt. Kirk was my biggest childhood hero, it is almost inconceivable that I have now reached the age of 61 and William Shatner is still going strong. My other big childhood hero was Richard Petty, amazing that he is still going, too. My best wishes to both of them.
90 years old.
Gotta give him props for that.
At that age I’d probably be a drooling twat like the Turnip that currently resides at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
He’s almost old enough to run for Congress.
I wonder if he ordered warp factor 2 after liftoff?
*
boldly go, right? i’ve had bowel movements that
lasted longer than this crass publicity stunt.
nice that billionaires have hobbies, huh?
*
You seen one giant, flying white penis, you seen them all.
I seem to remember a space disaster where a teacher, untrained in space travel, was killed by unnecessary space flight decades ago.
These leisurely trips to space, will again, result in a tragic accident soon, and the same questions will surface.
Space travel is dangerous.
Indeed.
However what a wonderful way for Shatner to be buried … in space … going boldly where no corpse has ever gone before. I wonder whether THAT isn’t the REAL Mission? … speaking of simulation hypothesis.
If he wants his remains in space, he could always use this service:
https://www.celestis.com/
One of its clients was James Doohan. Yup, a bit of Scotty is up there.
By the way, I’ve heard that Celestis launches are quite popular with friends and relatives of the deceased, having a festival atmosphere. The rockets go up with the crowds cheering and applauding.
As I recall, they lost his ashes so he never really made it into space…
One mission did go into the drink. I’m not sure which had Doohan’s ashes.
I want to go like Hunter S Thompson … blasted out of a cannon. Hopefully into the faces of Extinction Rebels … or similar group of know-nothings
Yeah, but Hunter had to shoot himself in the head, first.
I will dispense with that gruesome and depressing part …
Well, he wouldn’t be buried in space as they are not going into orbit. Not a bad idea though.
Actually, they would be in space if they are higher than the von Karman line, which is generally regarded as the boundary.
They won’t be. The US redefined “space” a few years ago explicitly so private launch companies could claim they’re getting there, but the US redefinition is a couple miles below the von Karman line.
What these private launches really are is high-speed ballistic suborbital flights. Which is a pretty impressive achievement and possibly the successor to the Concorde, but having to redefine what “space” means just so you can claim you got there is pretty pathetic optics.
Sheesh… talk about your proliferation of space junk …
My definition of being in space is gaining an orbit where you burn up on reentry without the proper ship. The edge of space is just more BS. You ain’t there yet no matter who’s definition you chose.
VOWG:
One reason for the definition was legal. Before Sputnik, Eisenhower wanted to know if orbital overflights of another country’s territory would be considered a violation of its airspace.
Beyond a certain altitude, one would be considered to be in space and, therefore, those flights weren’t within someone else’s boundaries.
So politics created an non-definition. Make no wonder we find ourselves in the shit we are in.
VOWG:
Keep in mind that there are several atmospheric profiles that are used, depending upon the jurisdiction or organization. Whichever one is used influences the design of hardware in such aspects as drag calculations.
Regarding Eisenhower’s concerns, remember that the space race was part of the Cold War. He had to make sure that an American satellite wasn’t seen as violating Soviet airspace as that could be treated as a hostile action. They wanted to make sure that any of their spacecraft were indeed in space, which nobody owned or could legitimately claim.
I remember the drink that they named after that flight – 7 up and a splash of Teachers.
Is he hoping to get it on with a green woman?
At his age, I’m sure he won’t mind if she’s green. ~:D
Star Trek – Orion Slave Girls
353,319 views14 Nov 2009 (good editing on this vid(several trek generations))
And going “green” is so trendy now. Go get ’em Cap’n Kirk!
(I’m so jealous.) 😉
He’ll be fine, even on Bezos’ Johnny-come-lately suborbital shitrocket.
Yeah … this “technical boundary of space” thing is … well … quite … boring. And the trips only slightly longer than the Space Mountain ride at Disneyland
It’s not going to happen. This is all a stunt by Bezos to take the focus off his unpopular first flight. Shatner will back out for some reason, but the flight will take place.
Well Johnny Boy, it turned out you are so wrong. Eat your hat.
I’m on the periphery of our Australian space community, such as it is; and while I despise Bezos almost as much as I do Musk, I rather like what I see of Blue Origin’s more cautious and more technological ‘slow and steady’ approach.
I’m not a great Shatner fan, either. But if they manage to kill him off in this somehow, it’ll likely kill Blue Origin off as well!!! “Blue Origin; the company that killed Captain Kirk”!
I think the term is “ I have a bad feeling about this”
Anyway….. yeah. One of these trips is going to go south. (Maybe will take news away from covid 24/7?). Hope all goes well for Kirk though.
How come there is no whining of the carbon and environmental impact of leisure space travel? Richard?
Never any “talk” , meaning widespread media criticism, of elite a-holes spreading green manure to the masses for us killing the planet, while their carbon footprint is benign.
We know that already, rich man, poor man. Pitchforks.
All the best William, go get Shatnerd.
“He’s dead, Jim”
Im a book seller not a rocket scientist
Hahahaha ha …
Let’s hope Shatner doesn’t “ … die in darkness”
In our hearts you’ll always be our Rocket man, Captain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I
nold – I made it through to “I miss my wife” then had to leave to preserve sanity. It was cool to see a young Bernie Taupin speak though…
“had to leave to preserve sanity”
..and miss the best part; the ‘had too much to drink so I’m dancing’ part?
I’ll go back and check that out…
Let’s just say that Bernie’s wife didn’t quite look like yours … I presume.
Indications that your life is over:
Speculating about how Captain Kirk burns his spare time.
Shatner knew it was always a gag.
In this one it was a quite a bit more obvious.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oEZVwQptvWw
Alan Shepard was unavailable for comment on what is basically a re-enactment of his 60 year old achievement.
Nor was Gus Grissom.
Remember Fred Ward playing Gus Grissom in The Right Stuff? Mr. Grissom died in that capsule fire though.
Shepard’s mission was already scheduled when Gagarin went up as was, I believe, Grissom’s. Both were sub-orbital. That ended after Titov’s 24-hour flight later in 1961. The next Mercury mission was John Glenn in Friendship 7.
Grissom went on to command the first Gemini mission and was the commander of Apollo 1, dying with Ed White and Roger Chaffee in the fire.
And, yes, I do remember Fred Ward’s portrayal in the movie The Right Stuff. I’m not sure how accurate it was, but Grissom was known for being surly at times. In the post-fire Senate hearing, Frank Borman described him as being an “ornery SOB” but also as someone he would trust with his life.
https://youtu.be/2bCwyzT0Z6E?t=30
Shatner has reached that age where a lot of people see all their friends and peers gone and they don’t mind death. Maybe he figures this would be a great way to go.
He’ll be OK, as long as he doesn’t wear a red shirt…
“Expendable crew member please report to the transporter room.”
Shatner got 3-1/2 minutes of weightlessness …
The Space Mountain Ride at Disneyland is 3 minutes long.
And the cost of each ride are getting frighteningly close to one another.
Free admission to Disneyland is probably buried in that $3.5 trillion dollar infrastructure bill somewhere; although it might be exclusively for illegal aliens.
Yes, right after Disneyland is Nationalized. After all, the government should be the one controlling the Bread and Circus’s … Right?
Kenji, ++++
That is implicit in the concept of Bread and Circus’s.
I can’t stop laughing.
Naturally he’s on a ship shaped like that. Mike Myers would be proud, or something.
Yes, Bezos is pretty blatant about his space penis envy.
Meh. I have a ho hum attitude about the whole thing. Just another gazillionaire with a cool toy and he’s letting us watch. BFD.
Wait a couple of weeks and he’ll be pissing and moaning about how the rest of us are destroying the planet. Ok Jeff.
Good on Shatner though. Good to know we no longer need fitness tests for space travel.
It’s not just that. It establishes a new proven maximum age limit.
Amazing. Two Internet Billionaires put together organizations that are flying to space, but NASA, Boeing and SLS with its long and storied history cannot?
Remember when the first SLS Launch was delayed for years until 2020?
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a13821538/nasas-sls-space-launch-system-delay-2020/
The first one didn’t even go where it was supposed to. Now the second rocket cannot even get off the launch pad?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/nasas-sls-rocket-will-not-fly-until-next-spring-or-more-likely-summer/
Meanwhile Elon Musk has flown how many dozens of rockets? Yes, Some blew up, usually after they flew the mission, and were landing to be reused. He even purposefully blew rockets up on the test stand to see how strong they were. And they learned from each and every flight, successes and failures both, and Musk is now launching satellites almost weekly AND flying supplies and people to the International Space Station.
The second SLS flight made by the experts at NASA and Boeing might launch sometime next year, after being delayed how many times this year?
Credentialed Experts? Lord, this sounds like like every failed corporation and Blue state
Bureaucracy is your friend.
Part of the problem with the SLS (which some wag dubbed the “Senate Launch System”) was that it was mandated by Congress. We can thank Senator Richard Shelby for that one as he made sure that it was built at the Marshall Spaceflight Centre in Huntsville….. which just happened to be in his congressional district.
NASA has moved on to … more woke … pursuits. Global Warming and Minority hiring. After all … once NASA stopped hiring the best and the brightest and instead rolled the dice of “suitable ethnicity” for their cushy government jobs … NASA needed to dumb-down their Mission to fucking with temperature data. Mission accomplished. NASA now declares we are all gonna DIE!! We are all killing the planet with each degree above ambient we heat our homes.
Nice work, if you have the ethnicity and bias to get it …
Don’t forget reaching out to Mohammedans, thanks to your former Mohammedan-in-chief, Barry O’Bummer.
Where’s Captain Kirk, indeed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1sju0GFJCA
Shatner’s comment afterward sound like Xiden Zhou drivel.
https://www.wnd.com/2021/10/oh-god-captain-kirk-awe-transcendent-spaceflight/