Bezos sends his fiancé and five other women into non-orbit. Let the jokes begin.
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This is such a target-rich environment. Sadly, most are not family-friendly — not that this makes them any less funny. Instead, I’ll share Megyn Kelly’s amusing discussion (8-minute video) of the “nipple-shaped rocket ship” launch. Frankly, “nipple-shaped” wouldn’t be my first choice but that’s just me. One of the other people on the podcast called it a “giant vibrator”, which seems a bit closer to the mark.
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It brings up a point. Musk has not yet gone up in one of his own rockets. Ironically, if he were to send one of his kids it might be the same one the Left would choose.
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This is just embarrassing. I remember having to sit on the floor of the gym in our 12-grade school, watching when John Glenn went up. As I understand it, these chicks didn’t even go as far as he went. Oh I guess you could say it’s harmless. But it musta cost a lot of money which coulda been better spent.
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It was advertising. New Shephard is a tool to get very rich thrill-seekers to help pay for the development of Blue Origin’s future generation reusable rocket. Got to drum up business somehow – and that means advertising. As the saying goes, 90% of advertising is wasted, but nobody knows which 90%.
Time will tell if sending up a passel of female semi-celebrities was a successful advertising gimmick. At least Blue Origin did not demand that they wear bikinis.
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Not sure about the advertising angle but if it could be arranged for them to stay up there, that would be a great service to humanity.
Just as well given that most of them hit the wall years ago, extensive plastic surgery notwithstanding.
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Blue Origin door opening goes viral after the door was opened from the inside before being closed so Jeff Bezos could wrench it open on camera. pic.twitter.com/xkIZRfbeV6
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 17, 2025
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For anybody who remembers the Challenger disaster, and poor Christa McAuliffe the elementary school teacher who probably didn’t realize she was riding a bomb, all this preening by the “crew” is…shall we say “bittersweet”? Shall we say “bitter”? We SHALL say bitter.
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I’ll never forget the look on her father’s face.
Although not in retrospect, it was rather ironic at the time that I’d put together this award at a critical juncture in the history of “space activism” and came in dead last in the popular vote for a position on the board of the NSS. NASA had a strangle hold on the soul of The Nation of Settlers – so desperate were we all to escape from what is now upon us.
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Oh God yes. I remember her family were all invited to watch the launch. They didn’t know what had happened,thought maybe that’s just the way the first stage looks.
Remember Reagan reading Magee’s poem, “High Flight”?
0 I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings,
Sunwards I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, nor even eagle, flew.
And as with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
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This reminds me… my wife watches the show with the despicable woman named Jane Fonda and the few glimpses of her give me the uncanny valley vibe. Anyone else get the same creepy feeling when they see her/it?
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At least second generation Hollywood and a real looker in her day. She never had a chance with irresponsible pimps like that. Any decent pimp will at least have their bottom woman advise their b****** the standard: “better have looks when you’re young personality in middle age and money when you’re old.” One cannot of course expect a father like Henry Fonda to step in and say “better have kids when you’re young grandkids when you’re middle-aged and great grandkids when you are old.”
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