[HN Gopher] William Shatner is now oldest ever to go to space:'T...
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William Shatner is now oldest ever to go to space:'The most
profound experience'
Author : bryan0
Score : 27 points
Date : 2021-10-13 17:49 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| nightowl_games wrote:
| To me, space means orbit and this is just a PR stunt by a pretty
| nasty company: Blue Origin.
| hnburnsy wrote:
| I have no idea if BO is mean, but I laughed out loud at the
| camera shot today of mission control and they we all wearing
| identical tech bro Patagonia style vest with the corporate
| logo. It looked just like what a high-tech supervillain would
| have his henchman wear.
|
| https://www.google.com/search?q=blue+origin+mission+control&...
| AtlasBarfed wrote:
| It ensures there's no awkward moment where Bezos isn't the
| ONLY ONE one the room with a cowboy hat?
|
| The masks up the evil Bond villain factor too.
| whiteboardr wrote:
| If BO's PR-folks would be worth their money, mission control
| would have been wearing Star Trek clothing.
|
| This is just weird.
| jalk wrote:
| What, BO turned my highschool library into their control room
| - I thought the school had thrown out that brown particle-
| board-plastic-veneer desk ages ago.
| animal_spirits wrote:
| Can you elaborate on why you think Blue Origin is a "pretty
| nasty" company?
| culpable_pickle wrote:
| Ars has had a bunch of coverage lately on Blue Origin.
|
| https://arstechnica.com/tag/blue-origin/
|
| And this story specifically is revenant:
|
| https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/former-blue-
| origin-e...
| animal_spirits wrote:
| Thanks for the links
| passivate wrote:
| What do you think they're intending to achieve by this PR
| stunt? I'm not able to follow your rationale here..
| tmp_anon_22 wrote:
| I mean its very clearly a PR stunt to make Blue Origin and
| Bezos's space efforts more of a name brand like spacex.
| Making it a name brand likely has some benefits to Blue
| Origin's bottom line.
| t-writescode wrote:
| Even if true, I'm happy for Shatner being allowed to experience
| it. He's a major contributor to 10s of thousands of physicists
| and engineers choosing their career if not more; and this is an
| awesome gift most, if not all of us, would want, given the
| opportunity.
| Buttons840 wrote:
| This probably belongs on Reddit more than here, but I can't help
| but share William Shatner's rendition of Rocket Man on this
| occasion: https://youtu.be/HQnmLT1KbQo
| dinero_rojo wrote:
| I think this is the more definitive version of Shatner's Rocket
| Man: https://youtu.be/lul-Y8vSr0I
| [deleted]
| jazzyjackson wrote:
| I was trying to enjoy shatner's reaction on the blue origin live
| stream, but couldn't hear him over the hollering and champagne
| popping going on around him, which I thought was bizarre because
| I saw a dude with a boom mic running up to the capsule with the
| ground crew, it's like they didn't put any thought into the sound
| design of this very televised event
|
| also i felt the champagne popping was pretty gauche for a company
| that already has a "space is for billionaires" PR problem (I
| suppose Bezos wouldn't see the issue, since he interrupted
| Shatner to pour out a bottle himself, and iirc, tossed the bottle
| on the desert floor when he was done with it?? lol)
| BenFeldman1930 wrote:
| Sporting his red apparell.
| Kim_Bruning wrote:
| Captain Kirk actually went to space now.
|
| Welcome to the 21s century, I guess.
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