Katy Perry going into orbit

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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.

Sunita Williams needs to bag herself a billionaire sugar daddy and go for a head to toe plastic makeover to make herself relevant. I think we can count down the days to an Onlyfans space gang bang, hurray.

One giant stride for womankind, the new improved (sometimes with penis) kind.

Come on, bitchy is what women do best, together with sparkles, glam and giggles.

Yes, Disney princess scientists for the win! Pink space suits for all!

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

All this teaches young girls is that in order to succeed you need tits, ass and a fucking rich boyfriend.

This is a tad more explosive power than that.

I suppose it's no worse than rich blokes getting hauled up Everest on the back of a sherpa traipsing past dead bodies and heaps of discarded crap, or flying F1 cars all over the world to razz around burning up fuel.

Actually a lot of girls will never be interested in STEM careers no matter what anyone does. Given the choice in the most free societies, say Scandinavia, females gravitate towards people-centred jobs. Ironically it is only in repressive societies like Iran etc that more women choose STEM to make their way ahead.

He is surely as stupid as her. Come on now.

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…

I find it really annoying. It’s not inspiring for little girls who want to grow up and do STEM jobs, as it just shows that those women who work hard for it don’t get to go in these trips. Just be a pretty pop star or make sure your boyfriend is a billionaire- that’s how you get into space. I also found it offensive that even Kate Garroway was saying “will they be able to do their hair and make up in space?” - what, in the ten mins they’ll be up there they’ll need a touch up? It feels like when the billionaires went down to the titanic, yet for some reason it’s being celebrated as a feminist breakthrough.

Disgusting waste of jet fuel. Katy Perry went down in my estimation.

'young girls, who DO like to look glam at all times'

This is not a natural phenomenon. Did you feel upset typing that? I did, reading it.

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.

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

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.

Just spat my morning coffee out 😂😂

It's the Golgafrincham B Ark.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

@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.