William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With Sadness - Variety
In this exclusive excerpt from William Shatner’s new book, “Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder,” the “Star Trek” actor reflects on his voyage into space on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space shuttle on Oct. 13, 2021. Then 90 years old, Shatner became the oldest living person to travel into space, but as the actor and author details below, he was surprised by his own reaction to the experience.
no wonder bezos quickly shut him up and popped a bottle of champagne
The real sign that these space capitalists don't actually care or have any true ambitions about space is their complete disinterest in orbital habitats, even as a grift if living in space was really something that wanted they would at least be bloviating about building O'Neil cylinders and shit, instead they wax poetic about livin on a dead rock with a third of earth gravity, they might as well be talking about building ancapstan on the bottom of the ocean considering how much seriousness they give the subject
Also I think the left should steal the idea of orbitals from them before their marketing advisors clock into it, having a vision of the future even if it's unattainable is a powerful tool of agitation
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I mean unless you're a primitivist industrialzing space is a good idea in abstract
But Bezos is neoliberal capitalist, so god knows what his nonsensical definition of industrialized earth orbit is, probably mass surveillance and tourism
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First private space station will be an ore processing facility with slave labor, just like Terok Nor.
It's 100% about imagining removing themselves from any semblance of accountability or vulnerability to the rest of humanity. Before anti-satellite missiles were a thing the same brainworms were imagining orbitals being their escape, but now they have to imagine setting up hardened bunkers on another planet entirely. You can look to what they're doing on Earth already: setting up personal bunkers in places they imagine they could set themselves up as post-apocalyptic warlords if their space-escape plans fall through. They literally believe that they'll have a better chance of survival as a feudal warlord ruling over a mars bunker than they will on Earth where seeing consequences for their actions is at least hypothetically possible.
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Paging the late Iain M. Banks...