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@georgetakei "Space adventure and exploration should be for the benefit of all humankind"

Nope. Not at all. What is about the environmental topic? How many resources do we need to send a rocket into the sky? This explorations should be reserved for people who are knowing what they are doing. Researchers etc. Not everyone and especially not that kind of ugly and stupid humans like Bezos and his friends. Let us try to make a nice impression on aliens by sending smart people into space.

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@georgetakei Do you know how expensive and exclusive first cars or planes, or even toilet at home were? That technology you question barely started.
And also some of those early rockets gonna blow up, and early adopters take the biggest risk.
So maybe if you hate them so much, be happy that some whimsy few gonna die soon.

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@georgetakei What is that woman holding? It looks like a blue alien toy. Are they given toys for riding in the fancy-rich-space-rockets?

Ugh. I'll go on wishing those capsules will explode with all the billionaires inside. It'd save us and the planet.

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The Guardian's Marina Hyde does a fine job of skewering the event: "Lauren showed off the hot space suits she’d personally commissioned, inquiring rhetorically: β€œWho would not get glam before the flight?” β€œSpace is going to finally be glam,” agreed Perry. β€œLet me tell you something. If I could take glam up with me, I would do that. We are going to put the β€˜ass’ in astronaut.”

My take: "I hope all their plastic body pieces engage in a delayed spontaneous combustion event"

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@georgetakei Wow, how many homeless could you have housed? How many starving families could have had food? Oh, wait, what about the environment? Funny do as I say, not as I do. We're the left and we know what is good for the little people. You should be ashamed.

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@georgetakei not a popular opinion among the humans-in-space fans, but until we sort out a sustainable relationship with Earth we should have a moratorium in such frivolous pursuits that among others gives the subliminal signal that some sort of alternative destination is imminent.

To really become a spacefaring species we first need to be a species that can survive on a planet for which we evolved to live.

Not at all a given, especially if these techbros keep at it.

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@georgetakei Wait until they get their space hotels up and running. The obscenely wealthy will, once again, have a place where they can vacation far away from the proles. This year's hot couple can honeymoon in space and wax rhapsodically about the pleasures of weightless sex.

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@georgetakei Instead of selflessly funding probe expeditions to explore and understand our solar system better, expeditions on Moon again, we have the rich flexing about going to space and us plebs can't. I'd actually respect Bezos or Musk if they did that, but they are just rich assholes.

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Oh no, no no no they didn’t avoid paying taxes. We subsidize them.

Get it through your heads Amazon is a giant vacuum, sucking our dollars our pennies out of not only our pockets in our wages, but they also suck the money and lives away of local business of Mom and pop shops of small and medium companies, and then on top of it, they get our taxes to subsidize the process and then we are stuck with their credit card bill doing so.

Wealth drives poverty