Coolest thing this year is watching Captain Kirk get shot into space on board the Giant White Amazon Phallus.
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Captain James Tiberius Kirk FTW
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That dick went into space (and took Shatner with it)
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Amal Shuq-Up said:
Coolest thing this year is watching Captain Kirk get shot into space on board the Giant White Amazon Phallus.
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It's only logicalAmal Shuq-Up said:
Coolest thing this year is watching Captain Kirk get shot into space on board the Giant White Amazon Phallus.
tommie said:
That dick went into space (and took Shatner with it)
Most accurate description of the year
Blue Origin's New Shepard capsule carried the 90-year-old former Star Trek actor and three crewmembers 66 miles above the Earth's surface.https://t.co/lHCXhM486D
— reason (@reason) October 14, 2021
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Those latter flights attracted heated criticism from progressives who bemoaned the sad reality where billionaires spent their money pushing the envelope of space technology instead of improving the lives of ordinary people here on Earth. Better those funds be confiscated via a wealth tax and funneled into terrestrial government bureaucracies dedicated to real-world problems of health and education, they said.
It's true that space travel has yet to become a reality for the common man. At the moment, it's an option only for the ultra-wealthy, the mildly famous, and a few lucky lottery winners. The same can be said for the early iterations of many inventions that are now boringly commonplace, from automobiles to smartphones.
Innovations born from a capitalist process of innovation and competition have made all those things ubiquitous features of modern life, for both rich and poor. With enough time and low enough taxes, space flight will hopefully be an equally accessible activity.
Critics still might scoff that all that time and investment will only transform billionaires' vanity projects into glorified amusement rides for the less wealthy. But Shatner's own post-launch comments suggest that even his brief trip to space was far more than just a fun adventure.
"Everybody in the world needs to do this," he said, telling Bezos, "what you have given me is the most profound experience I can imagine. I am so filled with emotion about what just happened. I hope I never recover from this. I hope I can maintain what I feel now."