Gayle King and other rich women going to space

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I'm all for women's empowerment but I turned on CBS news this morning and the entire segment was about Gayle King, Katie Perry and other wealthy women going into space. I just felt this was tone deaf considering the suffering many are going through in this country. What say you?
 

Gayle King, Lester Holt and Savanah Guthrie get from 10-18 million, Sean Hannity 45 million, etc.
To me none of them are remotely worth it. Wouldn't we all like to see some new faces?

But, what difference does it make whether they spend it on space travel or red-soled shoes?

The one that makes my stomach turn is Savanah Guthrie who saved all her hard-ball interviewing skills to use against a 15 year-old kid and pilloried him so badly that she lost her network millions when his father sued them. Couldn't we send her into space?
 
If we remain here for centuries, I think space ( the air ) too, will be loaded with stuff. More like the Jetson's than we would like to think. :) IDK what it will be like. :) I do think as long as someone/s can get into space, they will.
 
seadoug said:
I just felt this was tone deaf considering the suffering many are going through in this country. What say you?
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My thought is that for the $55M + it costs for a seat on that thing for ten minutes in space, I could have fed a LOT of hungry people and/or built some homeless shelters. Nothing but very expensive publicity that accomplished absolutely nothing as far as I can tell.
 
CallMeKate said:
My thought is that for the $55M + it costs for a seat on that thing for ten minutes in space, I could have fed a LOT of hungry people and/or built some homeless shelters. Nothing but very expensive publicity that accomplished absolutely nothing as far as I can tell.
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And aren't these folks, the very folks that have constant public service announcements, and holiday specials promoting feed the hungry , and housing for humanity, etc.etc. ?

Just imagine what $55M p/seat times however many seats filled there were, would do for the fire ravaged in California or the flood ravaged in the Carolinas .

IMO typical for the media, after the headline it's ........ who? what happened ?
 
I remember back in the late 60s/early 70s when NASA sold tickets for this type of thing... even though there was no way of actually taking "civilians" along with them. It was all about the hope of the technology being just around the corner, lol.

I remember the other kids, whose parents were in the Gov. or ambassadors and whatever... wealthy folks... bragging that their parents had bought tickets for around $1000 or more and thinking how silly and foolish it all was. IDK.

I guess the money can help in some small way to bigger and better things... I ain't going, and don't really care on way or the other... let them have their fun.
 
hawkdon said:
Well it does seem like "space" travel is turning in to a playground enterprise, I mean he sent a new car up there
for x sakes...I honestly don't think we will ever get past'
the "space exploration" phase i.e. no homes, plants etc....imo
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The cars was used as payload on the first test flight. nobody would send an actual multi million dollar payload on the first flight Of a rocket that had never flown before. and it was great publicity. 😄

its their money they can spend it as they wish.
 
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seadoug said:
I'm all for women's empowerment but I turned on CBS news this morning and the entire segment was about Gayle King, Katie Perry and other wealthy women going into space. I just felt this was tone deaf considering the suffering many are going through in this country. What say you?
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I say it is no different to wealthy men doing the same thing. Fundraising and publicity?
 
I wonder if the memory of the awesomeness of having taken an amazing flight into outer space will dull in time and thoughts of the expense of it was foolish, even perhaps embarrassing will come to mind, since the financial cost could have been used to heighten the lives of so many people bound in poverty here on Earth.
 
I remember the reaction of William Shatner when he had a sub orbital flight. He was overwhelmed to see our planet from above, and forever changed by the experience.

On Oct. 13, actor William Shatner, 90, best known for his role as Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk, went to space for real aboard a Blue Origin New Shepard rocket. He was aloft for only 10 minutes—but they were 10 minutes that forever transformed him.
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In his own words -
"I was crying," Shatner told NPR. "I didn't know what I was crying about. I had to go off some place and sit down and think, what's the matter with me? And I realized I was in grief."
"It was the death that I saw in space and the lifeforce that I saw coming from the planet — the blue, the beige and the white," he said. "And I realized one was death and the other was life."
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It is called the overview effect, the realisation that the earth is precious but fragile.
 
It's news.
Gayle King, Katie Perry and other wealthy women going into space.

Like much of the news it makes zero difference in my life. I'm pretty sure 2 days from now people will forget which rich women flew in space for a few minutes.
 

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