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She Kissed The Sky And She Liked It

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Pop princess Katy Perry has just returned from a quick trip to space*, one of an all-female crew, as part of (eww!) Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin programme.
I mean, you would if you could. Wouldn’t you?

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  2. Going to space with Jeff Bezos (or in one of his spaceships that doesn’t quite go into space) has all of the appeal of going for a drink with Brewdog’s resident knobhead James Watt. No thanks.

  3. Maybe the rockets could be put to good use.

    The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B was a way of removing the basically useless citizens from the planet Golgafrincham. A variety of stories were formed about the doom of the planet, such as blowing up, crashing into the sun or being eaten by a mutant star goat. The ship was filled with all the middlemen of Golgafrincham, such as the telephone sanitisers, account executives, hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, and management consultants.

    Ark Fleet ships A and C were supposed to carry the people who ruled, thought, or actually did useful work.

    The ship was programmed to crash onto its designated planet, Earth. The captain remembers that he was told a good reason for this, but had forgotten it, although the reason was later revealed to be because the Ark Ship B Golgafrinchans were a ‘bunch of useless idiots’.

    Flight to Earth
    After the ship took off, no word was heard from either Golgafrincham or the other A and C ships.

    From Hitchhikers ……

    Obviously not crashing on Earth this time.

  5. Very witty headline, Sewer.

    There is not much that would tempt me to venture into space.

    Of course if I could have blasted into space 40 years ago with the Bangles, I’d have been ready to tread boldly.

    But let’s not forget all the pitfalls of inter-galactic dating….

  8. For clarity Bezos was not on board himself yesterday.

    I watched the whole thing live. It was impressive, especially the booster landing upright in its target circle.

    Katy Perry had promised to sing in space, it seems, but luckily we lost comms while they were up there.

  12. Yet another example of people channelling the language of identity politics to lend credence to their own vacuous narcissism. The 2020 Imagine video on literal rocket fuel 🚮

    • Bezos hadn’t yet gone fully MAGA, back in ’21.

      Both of these were stunts and ego-trips for young Jeffy, but they were also proofs of the Blue Origin technology, which Bezos hopes will get him lucrative satellite-launching contracts.

  15. Shatner quietly accepted the trip to space and came back stuttering to express the feeling of dread it instilled in him while his idiot benefactor popped champagne corks beside him.

    He didn’t design his own jumpsuit, proclaim his trip a victory for the species, express his intention to bring glamour to space and “put the ass in astronaut”, or come back wanking on about the divine feminine. His trip was also gross, but he was nowhere near as obnoxious about going on it. He didn’t seek as much attention, so he received less.

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