just such a :chefs-kiss: moment
:yes-honey-left: I'm pouring my heart out to you here man...
:lord-bezos-amused: Shut da fuck up, champagne time!
Oh yeah I saw this a few days ago (on r/space I think) and it made me infuriated. Like Shatner obviously had the Overview Effect while no else seemingly had it.
As the video of inside the capsule showed Shatner was the only one glued to the window while everyone else (like on the first launch months ago) was doing flips, flinging food and rough housing (although some did enjoy the view nome had not having an epiphany like Shatner).
Like i never expected Bezos to be humbled when he first flew up obviously he's a ghoul. But none of the other passengers? Just doesn't give me hope for humanity to finally see that we're a blue dot.
To be fair, Shatner seems to have an epiphany during every interview in the last few years, I think he's struggling to come to terms with how old he is. Bezos is still an ass though
Like Shatner obviously had the Overview Effect while no else seemingly had it.
Broke: getting the overview effect through a multimillion-dollar spaceship
Woke: getting the overview effect through psychedelics
Bespoke; getting the overview effect when you launch a satellite in Civ 6 and you can see the whole map
Lmao the wikipedia article already has shatner listed as someone who has experienced the Overview Effect. It has him listed as a "space tourist" lol
Honestly, if you don't get that feeling just flying on a jet plane and looking out the window, you don't deserve to go to space.
None of these people have gone to space, they were on a suborbital flight which is hardly better than going on a big trampoline.
Laika acutally went into space, in 1957. These people are all literally lower than a dog.
if the sky is black during the daytime, that means your in space.
Didn't some bootlicker write an article about bezos having emotional intelligence? Lmao
Edit - there are several articles like that.
Just World Fallacy is a hell of a drug. When you believe that capitalism rewards merit, you'll grasp at any straw for why the ghouls at the top deserve more wealth than half the world.
Spraying champagne is such a douchy activity. Someone went through a lot of effort to plant and care for the vines, pick the grapes, press them, ferment them into wine, aging the wine, blending it to have just the right taste, painstakingly turning the bottles a little each day over months to remove sediment — just so some rich asshole can spray it on the ground like a spoilt child would do. Give those man children a box of water balloons each and give the champagne to someone who is actually going to drink it and enjoy it.
I'll agree, but him and Nichelle Nichols did go out of their way to have the first interracial kiss on US television, so I try to spare him a little grace.
One one hand, it's difficult to feel bad for any of the people in this shot no matter what happens to them. On the other hand, if any experience can change a person, truly witnessing and internalizing our position in the universe seems as likely as any other. Back to the first hand, Shatner should have, in this revelation, recognized Bezos for the inhuman lizard-beast that it is and realized that he would find no empathy within its cold, lifeless disguise. To grow a third hand, Bezos is way worse than Shatner so fuck 'em I guess I'm on Shatner's side here.
It's funny that Shatner is trying to do a faux-philosopher thing and can't carry it off, and it's also funny that Bezos is so lacking in empathy that he won't even pretend to listen to it for five seconds.
