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[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s telling that even Russel Brand divorced her. He’s insufferable. Guarantee she is too.

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

If it pulled a Challenger, baby would have been a firework.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

something something Circuses

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sociopathic Oligarch propaganda. Which is why I made sure to pay no attention to it at all. That's why I didnt even know it went up until I got home and saw it on the news.

[–] ratel@mander.xyz 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I only just found out about it from this thread.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 77 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

That was my first thought too. Why can't they just flash a new one?

[–] cobn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What does bios firmware have to do with this?

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

getting their bios removed

:3

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] lena@gregtech.eu 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can put alt text directly in the image by putting it in the [] like so: ![alt text](https://infosec.pub/pictrs/image/0ccadefe-7add-44a1-a4e9-761f97645942.png)

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Corno@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 44 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

“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.

[–] SpecialSetOfSieves@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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