obscenely rich wanker off on a jolly.

[Inkubus]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57849364

[c172]

And it's over. Press conference in West Texas forthcoming. Everybody hootin' and hollerin' like hillbillies.

[Alan V]

The most expensive amusement park ride ever.

[c172]

One Less Black Kid on the street ready to shoot someone.

[Inkubus]

Eh?

[c172]

Dunno. Wasn't fully paying attention until a CBS anchorwoman, I think, tried to correct the guy being interviewed that that was kind of a nono to day. Now Twitter is talking about the comment. I'm sure YouTube will have it soon.

So, Jeff beat out Branson heightwise.

[Inkubus]

Massive cock goes into space.



In a rocket.

[c172]

Wally Funk was 82. Wow.

[c172]

$28m ticket to ride, apparently.

[Peebothuhlu]

Well... from here it's just a matter of a few more boosters. Glue a heat shield to the capsule and they're possibly into orbit proper.

Which puts them ahead of Branson but behind Musk.

Sir Richard's got a whole lot of design work ahead if he wants to get to orbit and back. Still, the ground work's been done back in the 50's and 60's for 'Space plane' type vehicles. Maybe he'll dust off those ideas?

Congrats and big cheers to Wally Funk.

Not at work.

[Minimalist]

He avoided taxes on his income....he had plenty of money to finance his joyride.

[c172]

Guy from New Mexico in a cowboy hat and a fake surfer accent.

[GenesisNemesis]

Bezos Landed, Thanked Amazon Workers And Shoppers For Paying, Gave Away $200 Million

[Thumpalumpacus]

The dick-waving competition between Branson, Bezos, and Musk would be funny if it weren't pouring so much carbon into the atmosphere.

[jerry mcmasters]

I suppose if Marie Antoinette could have eaten cake from outer space, she would have.

[Minimalist]

[SYZ]

The whole thing disgusts me... when the rest of the planet's plebeians are
struggling to even stay alive for another day.

"But as the Earth's wealthiest person—a centibillionaire of extreme proportions,
worth more than $200 billion—the man has been under an intense microscope
for his attitudes toward America's gaping wealth divide."

If I had a head like a robber's dog, I'd be hiding it in space too LOL.



“I want to thank every Amazon employee and customer because you guys paid for this,” he said after the flight.

—Pardon me while I vomit.      

[trdsf]

The dick-waving competition between Branson, Bezos, and Musk would be funny if it weren't pouring so much carbon into the atmosphere.

Bezos' rocket runs on liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen.  No carbon there.  Now, as for the Amazon delivery fleet, that's another animal entirely.

[trdsf]

I will say that taking Wally Funk into space (sixty years overdue) is probably the best thing Jeff Bezos has ever done. Other than that, fuck him.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Wally Funk was 82. Wow.

And an 18 yo to provide a nice spread of ages.

Must re-read "The Man Who Sold The Moon."

[trdsf]

[trdsf]

Elon Musk is at least delivering cargo and crews to the ISS. Bezos and Branson are just dicking around with Roman candles and paper planes.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Elon Musk is at least delivering cargo and crews to the ISS.  Bezos and Branson are just dicking around with Roman candles and paper planes.

And Musk had a head start.

Some people would throw away babies who don't help support the family.

[Alan V]

Some people would throw away babies who don't help support the family.

So you want a full-blown space-tourism industry?  I don't.  I think it's an embarrassment, especially considering how it's being hyped.  It's just rich people lying to themselves again.  They don't need a space trip to feel sometime or other.  They need to think about what they're doing.

[jerry mcmasters]

“I want to thank every Amazon employee and customer because you guys paid for this"

This quote is going to be iconic.  Widening wealth gap has been creeping and accelerating for some time now, but I wonder if looking back on this 100 years from now these rich guy space trips will be seen as landmark kind of "aha" moments, real zeitgeist-shifters.  Nah, probably not.