Anyone watching Shatner's space launch?

[Farscape One]

For hijacking the thread? Yes. But I don't have to read anything from you two anymore which is a blessing.

I wasn't highjacking the thread. I derailed it at first, but the last half of my post directly related to the topic.

 

[wayoung]

It's the hope that kills you

 

[Oddish]

I watched Mr. Shatner go into space. Thought it was pretty cool, actually. Captain Kirk gets to go up for real and all that.

 

[publiusr]

I didn’t like the kids showing out and Bezos walking away when Mr. Shatner was trying to have a moment…or the response of a “Royal” whose privileged life is hardly Green.

I can forgive the kids for whooping it up I guess…but Bill looked to be the only person there that had a soul.

Now, if the experience hadn’t have struck him so deeply, I would have risked a rib by having him—in microgravity—do a drop kick into my gut for old times sake.

 

[wayoung]

I didn’t like the kids showing out and Bezos walking away when Mr. Shatner was trying to have a moment…or the response of a “Royal” whose privileged life is hardly Green.

I can forgive the kids for whooping it up I guess…but Bill looked to be the only person there that had a soul.

Now, if the experience hadn’t have struck him so deeply, I would have risked a rib by having him—in microgravity—do a drop kick into my gut for old times sake.

Bad PR. Shatner was a publicity stunt for Bezos,. And it looked like Shatner was so moved by the experience he went off script. Bezos didn't want the PR to come from this to be an icon associating Blue Origin with death.

"Blue Origin: 'Was that death?'"

Not exactly the slogan marketing department dreams of, especially for a business with a lot of inherent risk to the customers.

 

[publiusr]

It is impossible to perceive death. People envision a silent future self in darkness…but there is no “you” to perceive it. Not light and dark…just blank.

The closest I came is when I was put under…I just… “stopped”

No dreams. I “became” as I woke up on a couch having been walked to it with no memory. So even there…there was perception. He got the overview effect…but tainted with terror. I wish we had anti-gravity. Idle to orbit.
Rockets can be dreadful things…

MSNBC had the best coverage with Mae saying that…in her prolonged shuttle mission, that she felt at peace…connected.

 

[Oddish]

How depressingly nihilistic.

Maybe sending Captain Kirk "up" was a publicity stunt... but I still thought it was kind of awesome.

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

while the others were playing around in zero gravity,
Shatner was just staring out of the window.... i loved that.

 

[Farscape One]

I wonder if he was thinking, at least at first, "Space. The final frontier..."

 

[JesterFace]

Who do you think is going to send Patrick Stewart into space?

 

[publiusr]

I don’t think he cares to.

 

[Finn]

I think Patrick Stewart made some comments about such things, in a similar way as Prince William regarding Shatner's going up and space tourism....IIRC.