Rockets are explosive and inherently dangerous. So is falling to earth from a great height. I would like Jeff Bezos to experience this situation as often as possible. Once a day would be excellent.
― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:39 (three years ago) link
idk they scare me about equally and in space there are no fish to laugh at me as I die
― intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Monday, June 7, 2021 12:03 PM (one hour ago)
a good one for the 100 drawings thread
― rob, Monday, 7 June 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
I'd like to go into space if the spacecrafts weren't blowing up all the time
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Monday, 7 June 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
https://t.co/cN3nzyBCwr pic.twitter.com/uytubJ02ho— hollywood brett thousand (@BrettThousand) June 7, 2021
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 7 June 2021 20:50 (three years ago) link
This could be excellent fodder for the Punky Brewster reboot.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Monday, 7 June 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
men will literally go to the edge of space with their brother instead of going to therapy— blaire erskine (@blaireerskine) June 7, 2021
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 7 June 2021 21:15 (three years ago) link
This could be excellent fodder for the Punky Brewster Fantastic Four reboot.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 7 June 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
"There's nothing.""I know. Have a good journey, Mr. Bezos."
― butyrate humbucker bobbins (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:04 (three years ago) link
the superrich probably have less access to the sublime than the average person, ordinarily. the world feels malleable to them, small. this probably produces a severe sense of despair, you know, the unfathomable loneliness of god and all that, so they are trying to heal themselves by going into space and experiencing a reality that makes them feel small again.
I hear making minimum wage and shopping at the dollar store gives you direct access to the sublime. Like literally downloading Barnett Newman into your optic nerve. You should try it some time.
― Vin Jawn (PBKR), Monday, 7 June 2021 22:23 (three years ago) link
thoreau thought that poverty helped make one more receptive to aesthetic experience. it's not an insane idea. but i was sort of being semi-ironic. like, i do think it is true that the space thing has to do with bezos feeling dead inside, but also whatever.
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 00:55 (three years ago) link
or *could* help rather. and maybe not poverty, really -- the brutality of lived poverty -- but simplicity, which is different. either way, i feel like it probably is a little disorienting to wield the kind of economic power bezos does.
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 00:56 (three years ago) link
Fuck amazon
― calstars, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link
thoreau thought that poverty helped make one more receptive to aesthetic experience.
― calstars, Tuesday, 8 June 2021 01:28 (three years ago) link
treeship badly paraphrasing thoreau isn't the same as what thoreau thought or wrote -- and treesh amplified and corrected his bad paraphrase,
― What's It All About, Althea? (Aimless), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 02:59 (three years ago) link
yeah, poverty means living in a state of constant stress and uncertainty. often you have little control over your own life. i wasn't trying to romanticize that sort of condition. but i also think vast wealth, on the order of what bezos has, is corrupting in a different way.
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 13:14 (three years ago) link
The poor get their rewards in heaven iirc
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:18 (three years ago) link
While for Bezos, heaven is a place on earth.
(By "on," I mean slightly above, looking down with contempt.)
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:20 (three years ago) link
treeship is otm about extremely rich people having no access to spirituality and otm about why bezos is doing this imo. it's also extremely pathetic and funny.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:25 (three years ago) link
it's not necessarily that the wealthy can't access spirit but that obsession with money/capital/exploitation is incompatible with it.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:26 (three years ago) link
exactly. thanks map.
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
I remember an interview with some Japanese shipping magnate who had spent years in a Zen monastery before coming back to run the family business. The interviewer asked him how his spiritual training informed his shipping magnate-ism. The guy said, "Zen is good for many things. But not so much for business."
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:28 (three years ago) link
odd then that spiritual people tend to gravitate toward money/capital/exploitation
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:29 (three years ago) link
o rly
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
If by "spiritual people" you mean "religious institutions," sure. But that's probably not the best way to define that.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:31 (three years ago) link
society is sick in a lot of ways, fabrication of spiritual well-being for capital is one of them
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
prosperity gospel, sea org, sexual exploitation of followers, etc. etc. etc.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
i don't think cult leaders who sexually exploit their followers are necessarily spiritually enlightened either.
i was talking about the sublime specifically, or an aesthetic/spiritual intuition of infinity. it requires a kind of humility and an ability to step beyond your immediate attachments and strivings.
― treeship., Tuesday, 8 June 2021 14:46 (three years ago) link
anyway, I told my 6 yo that Bezos was going into space and he said, "I guess the people on earth will be free for a few days then."
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 15:19 (three years ago) link
lol for real?
― im dum (rob), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
I guess when your dad's the president you get political at an early age
― im dum (rob), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
yes, he hates Jeff Bezos. Not sure where he picked that up.
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
it's only human to hate these motherfuckers
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 8 June 2021 17:20 (three years ago) link
Please god https://t.co/wPcLbKtS4W pic.twitter.com/zT74NrKEcR— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) July 20, 2021
― MoMsnet (calzino), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 09:07 (two years ago) link
Bezos announces in post-launch presser that he’s starting a new initiative called the “courage and civility award,” a $100 million award so the recipient can give that money to a charity of their choice. Van Jones is the first recipient. pic.twitter.com/ZboaXTNYuX— Joey Roulette (@joroulette) July 20, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
Bezos really needs to be chucked out of a helicopter
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
i just learned that his little "space" flight this morning lasted 11 minutes
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:52 (two years ago) link
I know rockets are phallic by design but come on
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iDedHLpCQNbdQmJdXWN63P.jpeg
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link
I figured there was already a thread for this which is why I didn't create a "Jeff Bezos launched himself into space on a dick" thread
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link
the billionare version of a jacked up gmc sierra
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
elsewhere it says the recipient can give to charity or keep it. so he just gave a rich person money that they could just keep. what a guy.
― criminally negligible (harbl), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:56 (two years ago) link
if you told me at 18 i would live to see a second space race, except infinitely stupider than the first, i would have turned 40 in a day.
this is so silly it's honestly difficult for me to believe.
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
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― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link
Presumably Bezo's rocket was designed with that particular shape so that it could neatly dock in the center of the ship from Battle Beyond the Stars.
https://www.monstersinmotion.com/cart/images/18SFP25_Nellship_02.jpg
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
oh my god! WHAT?
― Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
ilx posts with striking imagery
gotta love a man with a singular vision:
Jeff Bezos, hours after flying to space: "We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is." https://t.co/MibdgfkTFd— Axios (@axios) July 20, 2021
― rob, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 18:53 (two years ago) link
Is there a way to make all toilets flush directly into the troposphere
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
what an unbelievable asshole
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:00 (two years ago) link
“Oh my god, I’m in space! We should put all of our trash here!”
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
Good of Jeff to reinforce that he is That Neighbor
― Karl Havoc (DJP), Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
lol
I know "Bezos is a supervillain" jokes have been around a while, but like: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/20/jeff-bezos-space-travel-philosophy-500300
But Bezos, a billionaire who made his fortune building Amazon into a global online marketplace but has dreamed of space travel since he was a child, has said that he believes almost religiously that sustaining the human race will require building space colonies — beginning on the moon — where millions can live and work and develop new resources to meet growing demands on Earth.He has described these as “very large structures, miles on end, and they hold a million people or more each.”
He has described these as “very large structures, miles on end, and they hold a million people or more each.”
this reminds me of something but I can't quite put my finger on it...
― rob, Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link