Not a big splash.
I'm trying to figure out what the purpose of the all female suborbital space shot was all about.
They had no control and were just passengers in an automatous rocket that basically went up and came back down.
What message were we regular people to take from this? That we could experience weightlessness if we should endeavor to become rich and/or famous?
Was this purely an exercise in PR to drum up space tourism to make a very wealthy individual even more wealthy?
When will your local travel agent be able to book you and your book club an 11 minute flight?
And at what costs?
I just read a piece saying a week at Disney world will set you back 8 to 15 thousand dollars per couple.
And there are people doing round the world cruises for less than 100k.
Could this be the market Bezos is going for?
I'm glad everything went well and no one got hurt and they all made it back alive.
But frankly, the best moment for me was when Bezos, giddy with excitement, tripped and faceplanted along side the capsule trying to peek inside the windows at the landing site.
Other than that, just meh.
Have seven days of no rain and moderate temps in the 70s coming, so I'm a plantin' like crazy right now.
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in a can, if "The Right Stuff" is to be believed. Apparently, Chuck Yeager really did say it...
But hey, if you have the cash, why not? Might as well flaunt it- people aren't in the street with pitchforks and torches, just yet. Party like it's 1999.
I just saw that the Chinese government has quietly told all their air carriers to cancel their Boeing orders, and moreover to stop buying replacement/service parts for the ones they already have. ~240 aircraft on order at ~$100 million a pop, and that's $24 *billion* wiped off the books at Boeing, all at once.
https://archive.ph/3b3Wj
Once again, I'm really glad that I don't work for Boeing. The upcoming bailout isn't going to make them very popular. And if the other international customers also look at the new tariffs and decide to go Airbus (or COMAC, the Chinese regional jet manufacturer), they could be in for a much *bigger* world of hurt.
85degF last weekend, snow Friday. Springtime in the Rockies.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Colorado weather is so fickle.
I'm fairly certain there will be no further frosts here in the Portland/Vancouver metro area.
I do keep some plastic covers handy though.
China is still flush with American dollars and they are spending it down as fast as they can.
The tariffs will help to not accumulate any more.
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I heard that Trump awarded the military contract
....for 6th generation fighter jets .... to Boeing. Does this sound right to you?
It sounds
utterly predictable.
That came out a couple of weeks ago, prior to the tariff thing. This just tells me that each of those 6th or whatever generation Boeing fighters will have really, really big price tags, will be years late, and since it will be a Swiss Army knife designed by committee, it probably won't work very well (see the F-35 for a shining example of that). But they'll make the ex-McDonnell-Douglas MBAs who now run Boeing very happy- no doubt lots of new houses and yachts are being purchased there, even as Boeing's commercial aircraft business circles the drain...
It is sad that Boeing swallowed so many other solid companies (like North American Rockwell) on their way to achieving financial glory and engineering incompetence at the hands of the McDonnell-Douglas management they "acquired" during that merger. It has been accurately described as "McD-D buying Boeing with Boeing's own money". Now, basically, the realistic choices are Boeing and Lockheed-Martin, and I suppose that it is now "Boeing's turn" after LockMart's Fat Amy (the F-35) won the last round over LockMart's own F-22 and Northrop's F-23...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Airbus...
I bet.
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
HI all
Hi E1,
I would sure like to see the highlight reel, in slo-mo, of the faceplant! That does sound
exciting.
What was a) the cost? and b) the carbon footprint?
For what?
I was glad to see NASA and the space force a couple years ago redefined 'astronaut' for the purpose of earning your wings. It is someone who participated in a mission critical manner in making the mission happen. Space tourists for a couple minutes are not astronauts.
The media, Bezos and his team can't call these amusement park riders astronauts enough. It is to me sickening. It devalues every astronaut on earth. Who do these egos think they are?
The whole thing is a vanity project to serve the vain. So they can have their fun while the world crumbles. It is more fun the solving real world problems.
happy trails all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
I think it was Bezos
putting on his salesman hat.
I mean, isn't this whole venture of his "flying penis" developed specifically for space tourism?
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Heh,
I wanna see that reel too!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
Heh, good morning e1. The purpose(s) and effect(s) can
be different things. The real purpose, I'm sure, was PR for Bezos and his projects, maybe some PR for some of the people involved and their careers, and then thrills, experience and "been there & done that" checklists for the passengers.
No science was done and nothing new was learned, but that's not what it was all about. However, there is a likely cultural impact, especially on today's kids, that a group of women can joyride into space just like rich guys have been doing. Women are, after all, still a minority in space, both as crew/astronauts and as tourists.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Is it the thrust they get off on?
.
I know this is not in good taste but
sometimes the jokes write themselves.
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
LOL
Manna for the late night variety shows. Carson would have had a field day.
Thanks for the tunes.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Morning EL
I think you are right on both counts.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
It definitely wasn’t the hooky poky
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
The Roaring Twenties Redux.
.
....There are many, many social parallels between the 1920s and the 2020s, leading up to Prohibition and the New Flu. Flappers or the 1920's Women performing a populsr dance, where they mimic airborne birds relishing the symbolic freedom of their emancipation. The flappers of the 2020's — the first women tourists in space — used a rocket.
On another note: My news crawl says that Trump is going to back off of automobile sanctions. Predictable.
The fact is American consumers desperately need to drive advanced EVs (imports) that they can buy at very low cost. For their own economic well being, US commuters need precision-built SUVs, with advanced batteries that can travel 500 miles on a five minute charge. Only a robot-based factory can produce vehicles like these at the right price. US auto makers know they will never produce EVs like these in the US — and failure to have them available in a nation with no modern infrastructure will doom the US economy.
I'm guessing US automakers, themselves, convinced Trump that it would be the ultimate fatal wound to the United States, if modern EV transportation were withheld from the American people. This is a known-known in the world, except in the US.
The fact that China's response to US 100+ percent tariffs on Chinese vehicles — resulted in China banning sales of airplane and automotive replacement parts to the US — might have been a factor in this decision.
I bet that this won't stop the companies from raising prices
to pad their bottom lines.
US company, Apple, flew their own phones
....from the Apple factory in China to the US, in order to escape US tariffs....
Neoliberal economics is malfunctioning.
American corporations
Will learn from Russia how to work around sanctions and tariffs.
Our own government will become isolated from the ROW.
Thanks for the links.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Obviously democracy is thriving in Europe!
The rest of the tweet:
Burner phones
don't visit the u.s.
Thanks for reminding me
I was planning on a trip to Canada this summer and will take a burner phone.
I keep a "little black book" in lieu of a phone book on my phone.
I give them as little as possible.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good afternoon, e1!
The big Girl Fly happened while I was busy sorting clothes to do laundry, so I knew nothing about it until it was over!
I would love to see the Bezos faceplant. When will he go spacing?
Good luck with the garden. Your weather sounds wonderful.
Thanks for the OT, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
There is a video circulating
showing him tripping over something and going down face first.
He did get back up and continued peeking through the windows, or maybe they are called portholes.
I guess you can't call them windows anymore than you can call the girls astronauts.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
And in the next self-own,
Trump has decided to screw Nvidia.
https://archive.ph/XYRP8
Nvidia Plunges After US Imposes License On H20 Chip Sales To China, Slaps Company With $5.5 Billion Charge
How to say "I have no fucking clue what I'm doing", without actually saying "I have no fucking clue what I'm doing".
Unless he actually *does*. Hopefully, somebody is watching to see if that SOB or any of his minions shorted Nvidia before announcing this. He seems to be playing fast and loose with the securities transactions. Well, they finally got Capone on income tax evasion, so I suppose that there's some hope...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
It would not surprise me
in the least his entire billionaire cabinet is "working" the market with him.
I wonder what junior is doing these days?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
It was a beauty product test
.
The CEOs wanted to know how well their products for false boobs, buttocks and lips will hold up under extreme conditions.
And it’s not just the amount of wasted dollars spent on the joyride, but also the damage it did to the environment. Seriously how many carbon credits did Bezos have to spend on it?
Where’s Greta when you need her?
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
Greta is somewhere
checking out plastic surgeons who can make bank on getting her fit and ready to go on the next super sexy women near space stunt.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Could be something to that
Gayle King held tightly to a console and didn't even experience free-floating. She said she didn't want to go upside down for fear of blood rushing to her head. She doesn't understand how zero gravity works.
What a wasted experience.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I don’t think she is the sharpest knife in the drawer
Why take the risk to ride into space if you don’t experience weightlessness? Every astronaut I see doing it look like they are enjoying it.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
Got lots of onions in today
@10
100 Walla Walla red and 50 Spanish whites. And a 20 ft. row of carrots.
Tomorrow will plant 50 corn and some peppers.
Then maybe some tomatoes.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Tomatoes get in my mouth
And then they come right back out. Even if one is hidden under lots of cheese and dough my mouth knows they are there and out they come.
My family knew I couldn’t eat tomatoes and yet my aunt made a tomato stew and tried to make me eat it. When she finally got tired of cleaning up my mess she brought me something else. Cruel woman. I never forgave her for that. I almost spew when I see someone bite into one. Ugh…..!
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
Me with eggs,
milk, and g'ma who beat me because the devil made me do that. 10 years later I told my parents, and my Dad wanted to kill her. We talked him out of it.
I am still unable to eat an egg or drink milk without some chocolate syrup in it. Thr Devil i in the details.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Very funny
"we talked him out of it".
Hi snoopy
At least your aunt relented and gave you something else to eat ; )
I just finished roasting the last of the tomatoes. You might find them more palatable, they are chewy and candy-like.
Please give Sam a hug from me.
I heard these rides cost $600K per person.
They just skim the border of what is defined as outer space. Not impressed.
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
If you say something bad about the women
.
who flew to space then you are a misogynist. Truly.
Good gravy…does she understand what it took Alan to prepare for his ride? There were so many risks back then and she just got to ride on 50 plus years of experiments. I’ve got knives more sharpen than her.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
Money and fame
.
does not endow one with intelligence
just expensive managers and agents
A mind that does not detest bad government is foolish.
Hear hear
Especially if you inherit the wealth.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I wemt to the pass
that was the place where 300 Spartans held off Persians until they all got killed.
Therefore, I Am Spartan.
I went to Ankor Wat.
Call me Buddha. Go ahead.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Yuri Gagarin orbited
the Earth and was up there 108 minutes. The first human in space.
Allen Shepard only flew 268 miles and didn't reach orbit.
We have always been behind the Russians in space.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
And lied to,
friend.
Lied to.
I have enjoyed the ot!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I’ve been to Yosemite many times
So I’m John Muir.
Spartacus and Muir should meet and share stories.
lol…the more King opens her mouth the more ridiculous she sounds.
Why not just talk about what an incredible experience she had being above the earth instead of what she’s saying?
Shatner’s response brought tears to my heart.
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
I looked up what Shatner said
That was dark, but profoundly correct.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Heh….
Reminds me of when my aunt and uncle went to NYC and while standing on the street a black man came up and told my uncle to call him a cab.
“Okay you’re a cab.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.
- Kevin Alfred Strom
Thanks for the entertaining OT, e1 and all n/t