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Katy Perry going into orbit

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ssd · 14/04/2025 22:04

Money talks eh. What a load of bollocks. Bunch of millionaires in tight suits going on a ten minute mission with rhe girlfriend of a dodgy billionaire. Girl power my arse.

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CraneBeak · 15/04/2025 08:15

Its embarrassing. As if women can't have real jobs, and can at most play and pretend, as if they were children going on a "space experience" or some shit. Enraging. Fine if they want to spend their money on this little trip, but to market it as if being able to pay to go in a rocket is inspiring or that they're doing something socially important is insane.

Perhaps the newspapers want to come and film me going on a Brave Inspiriting Journey today (I'm going to Tesco's with the kids).

MonaLisaDoesntSmile · 15/04/2025 08:15

SALaw · 15/04/2025 07:18

She came across terribly when speaking before and after. As a Brit, Orlando Bloom would surely have been cringing…

You mean Orlando "Padding Naked" Bloom? I think he knows a thing or two about cringe. I recommend his most recent reality show haha.

Katy Perry going into orbit
EnviroBadger · 15/04/2025 08:12

EasternStandard · 15/04/2025 08:03

How much is this stuff going to impact the environment, so depressing.

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It would be interesting to see published the emissions per passenger for this tourist high flight.

MonaLisaDoesntSmile · 15/04/2025 08:12

Couleur · 15/04/2025 02:25

I’m not sure I agree with the sarcasm here. I think the point is that they aren’t astronauts by any means, but still had enough bravery to strap themselves onto a massive exploding rocket that absolutely has the capacity to go wrong at any moment. Yes, they are wealthy, and I’ll never have the chance to do the same, but I can admire that bravery - as I do with every astronaut.

When hat submarine that imploded near Titanic accident happen, did we say that the people in it were 'brave' and 'inspirational'?
When I first heard about amn all female flight into space (as it was reported as such) I imagined this slightly differently. This was just a bunch of tourists shot up in the air and they didnt have to do anything but sit down.
Im sure it was a cool thing to do for them. But I would not call what they did brave.

LemonLeaves · 15/04/2025 08:12

SALaw · 15/04/2025 07:18

She came across terribly when speaking before and after. As a Brit, Orlando Bloom would surely have been cringing…

Doubt it - this is the man who told the Sunday Times that he liked to spend time dreaming about roles not just for himself but also for women and minorities, so that he could be a voice for everybody. The whole interview read like Private Eye's Pseud's Corner on steroids.

Motherknowsrest · 15/04/2025 08:09

Guineapiglet2 · 15/04/2025 07:13

Bitchy

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But true.

Matronic6 · 15/04/2025 08:04

The fact that is being billed as an all female 'space crew' is insulting to female astronauts. They basically went on a very brief very high plane ride. I cringed when Katy Perry got out and kissed the ground.

WaffleParty · 15/04/2025 08:03

Couleur · 15/04/2025 02:25

I’m not sure I agree with the sarcasm here. I think the point is that they aren’t astronauts by any means, but still had enough bravery to strap themselves onto a massive exploding rocket that absolutely has the capacity to go wrong at any moment. Yes, they are wealthy, and I’ll never have the chance to do the same, but I can admire that bravery - as I do with every astronaut.

A. Is is brave or stupid if you put yourself at risk for something completely pointless?
B. They’re NOT astronauts!! What an absolute insult to anyone who actually is

EasternStandard · 15/04/2025 08:03

EdithBond · 15/04/2025 07:25

Surprised the penis wasn’t pink. Like Harriet Harman’s election fem bus.

That’s it now. The floodgates have opened. More and more entitled people will be burning up the atmos, so they can come back and tell us what we already know: how peaceful, precious and fragile the earth looks.

If only we weren’t destroying the ozone with all that burning rocket fuel…

How much is this stuff going to impact the environment, so depressing.

TheObligingSwan · 15/04/2025 07:57

One giant step backwards for womankind. Benny Hill in space!

Blinkingbother · 15/04/2025 07:50

Oh my lord - the utter drivel that Katy Perry came out with on her return🙈. I am really concerned how this is being portrayed as ‘aspirational’ to young girls…. My teen ds explained to his younger sister how degrading it was to real female astronauts like Sunita Williams to be equated with the super wealthy plastic space tourists - if he can see it so clearly why can’t she😭!

Neemie · 15/04/2025 07:50

justlonelystars · 15/04/2025 06:35

I think everyone’s missing the point a bit. Yes, to us mature adults, skin tight space suits and lip gloss seem a bit silly. But for young girls, who DO like to look glam at all times, it shows them that they can do science and still be cool. If they all went up looking frumpy and frazzled, most teen girls wouldn’t engage or be interested, they wouldn’t even glance at the news story. This is a way to get them interested in STEM.

Most of the teenage girls that I know who are doing STEM A levels (and I know a lot of them) are doing these subjects because they are good at maths and science and they think it will help them get a well paid job when they are older. I’m pretty sure they realise that it is nothing to do with being a space tourist in a tight space suit.

After all, it is Jeff Bezos who studied STEM subjects at an Ivy league, not his girlfriend.

MrsIcandothis · 15/04/2025 07:49

TheAutumnCrow · 14/04/2025 22:26

They thought they saw the curvature of the earth very briefly, but it was Lauren's lips in silhouette against one of the viewing windows.

Good God! Wit!!!!! 👏👏

justlonelystars · 15/04/2025 07:49

@LobeliaBaggins I would not consider women with their hair done and a full body covering (albeit somewhat close fitting but hardly a catsuit) was sexual. Not like they went up in space bikinis. Women can look nice and not be completely invalid in what they’re doing. Previously a woman had to give up her space on a space flight because the suits fit too poorly as they were designed for men.
@Fizbosshoes she wasn’t, but she was the face to engage the general public as most wouldn’t have heard of the actual scientists/astronauts. It worked - we’re certainly all talking about her here.

Now I’m far from a fan of celebrity culture, I can’t understand why people
hero worship these people, to be honest I don’t even know if Katy Perry is still cool, but I’m not the target audience here. I was a woman in STEM myself before I started a career in finance, it would have been nice to see it more championed in the media by women back when I was young.

CelestialGazer · 15/04/2025 07:48

I immediately thought of the B Ark in Hitchhiker (IYKYK) when I heard about the flight (edit| and just seen I’m not the first one to do so).

NotTerfNorCis · 15/04/2025 07:48

Hm. Noticed misogynists on Twitter sneering about how this was hardly a victory for feminism. So a little jolly for a band of rich women, which the right-wing should support - squander money on the rich rather than use taxes to uplift the poor - is being used by the right-wing as another attack on women.

EnviroBadger · 15/04/2025 07:47

Arlanymor · 14/04/2025 22:34

Space tourism for rich people. Nothing to get excited about really is it? The tone is all so self-aggrandrising and self-indulgent. I hope that all of their mascara was 'space proof'...

Yes ….space tourism = I don’t give a fuck about the environment and I have money so can do what I want

The ground kissing was excruciating, especially when it was bound to have been scripted. As for the bollocks about so much love, what did that even mean. Embarrassing.

Oldmothershrubboard · 15/04/2025 07:47

They reminded me of the suits from Fallout. Imagine opening up a bunker 30 years after a nuclear holocaust to find Katy Perry was the only person who could save the world.

MyWiseGoose · 15/04/2025 07:45

I wish they had taken meghan markle and Dr shola and blast to pluto and never come back.

Horses7 · 15/04/2025 07:43

I’m pleased to see others thought it looked like a penis - I wonder why Jeff?

Compash · 15/04/2025 07:42

It's the Golgafrincham B Ark.

EdithBond · 15/04/2025 07:40

BlueEyedBogWitch · 15/04/2025 02:24

Apparently, while they were up there, Katy Perry sang ‘What a Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong .

That’s some cruel and unusual punishment right there, isn’t it? Being strapped into a rocket and fired into space, then forced to listen to Katy Perry murdering a jazz classic, all the while surrounded by gargoyles held together by narcissism and fillers.

I’d be sitting there wondering if I’d been Hitler in a former life.

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Just spat my morning coffee out 😂😂

MananaPenelope · 15/04/2025 07:39

LobeliaBaggins · 14/04/2025 22:24

Meanwhile Sunita Williams just spent 9 months in space and surprisingly didnt look hot and sexy when she returned. Must not be the right kind of astronaut.

Exactly this.

I purposely haven’t read any of the news on this, as a woman with a STEM degree/PhD I have absolutely no words for this ridiculous tourist jaunt for the very rich labelled as something else.

theressomanytinafeysicouldbe · 15/04/2025 07:38

Seen it on GMTV this morning, they were completely glammed up, high heels on? It was more like a promo for the next Charlies Angels movie, it was embarrassing for women - and when she kissed the ground? WTF

miraxxx · 15/04/2025 07:36

HappiestSleeping · 14/04/2025 22:22

They didn't go into orbit. Or space even. Not really. They weren't high enough. It's a bit of an extreme plane ride really. It was the same when Bezos went up.

They go up to just beyond the Karman Line, 100km up.This limit signifies the end of our atmosphere as the air is too thin to support normal flight and the start of 'space'. Most spaceships and rockets reach the KL in a few minutes. Orbit is a couple of minutes more. This is space tourism pure and simple, not groundbreaking science and available to anyone over 18 for 200-300k usd.