Ridicule Is The Final Frontier For The Ladies Of Blue Origin
Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King, pretended to be astronauts and corporate media pretended their brief trek was news.Katy Perry, Lauren Sanchez and Gayle King, pretended to be astronauts and corporate media pretended their brief trek was news.Actresses Olivia Munn and Olivia Wilde mock all-female trip to space: 'Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride?'
Actress Olivia Munn called out the recent all-female space crew for "gluttonous" spending after the celebrity-laden event was glorified as a landmark achievement for women.
An all-female celebrity crew went into what is technically considered space this week and was publicized as a benefit for "humankind."
The New Shepard program, launched by Blue Origin under Jeff Bezos, sent an all-women flight (NS-31) into what is generally considered the boundary between Earth and outer space. Crew members included singer Katy Perry, CBS host Gayle King, activist Amanda Nguyen, scientist Aisha Bowe, filmmaker Kerianne Flynn, and Bezos' fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, who was responsible for the crew's selection.
The publicity stunt was even heralded by former astronaut Mae Jemison, who claimed the mission was about expanding the perspective of who is involved in space travel. The 68-year-old also made sure to correct a CBS host's usage of the term "mankind" and reinforced the use of "humankind," further bringing a feminist angle to the trip.
'What are they gonna do up there that has made it better for us down here?'
The alleged feat did not impress everyone, though. Actress Olivia Munn went off on the participants for rubbing such an expensive trip in the face of average Americans.
"What are they doing?" Munn asked while co-hosting "Today With Jenna & Friends."
She continued: “I know this probably isn't the cool thing to say, but there are so many other things that are so important in the world right now."
"I know this is probably obnoxious, but like, it's so much money to go to space, and there's a lot of people who can't even afford eggs," Munn went on, again asking, "What's the point?"
"Is it historic that you guys are going on a ride? I think it’s a bit gluttonous," she added. "What are they gonna do up there that has made it better for us down here?"
While Blue Origin once auctioned off a seat for $28 million, current estimates have such flights ranging between $150,000 and $450,000 per seat, according to People.
To make matters worse, there are currently a number of female astronauts — even some from Blue Origin trips — who are in space or have recently returned from a mission.
At the same time, actress Olivia Wilde took to her Instagram page to mock the trip with a picture of singer Perry kissing the ground upon her return, despite the flight taking only 11 minutes.
"Billion dollars bought some good memes I guess," Wilde wrote.
The self-driving rocket took the celebrities 62 miles above Earth to what is called the Karman line, known internationally as the official boundary of space. The crew experienced approximately four minutes of weightlessness.
Sanchez said that the crew members were going to go up to space to "spread what they felt in different ways."
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Why The Girlboss Space Launch Was A Giant Step Back For Womankind
This supposed great boon for feminism was actually a bust.Trump tasks Musk with rescue mission to return American astronauts stranded at space station
President Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk to head a rescue mission to return American astronauts from the International Space Station.
In June, NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams became the first people to launch to orbit inside a Boeing Starliner from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The pair of astronauts embarked on a 25-hour flight to the International Space Station.
'Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long.'
Wilmore and Williams were supposed to be at the ISS for only eight days. However, Boeing's Starliner capsule had issues with the craft's propulsion system. Officials deemed it too dangerous for the astronauts to travel in the Starliner.
Williams and Wilmore are still abandoned at the space station, but Trump and Musk have said the astronauts will be saved.
Trump wrote on the Truth Social app, "I have just asked Elon Musk and SpaceX to 'go get' the 2 brave astronauts who have been virtually abandoned in space by the Biden Administration. They have been waiting for many months on the Space Station. Elon will soon be on his way. Hopefully, all will be safe. Good luck Elon!!!"
“The POTUS has asked SpaceX to bring home the 2 astronauts stranded on the Space Station as soon as possible. We will do so. Terrible that the Biden administration left them there so long,” Musk wrote on the X social media platform on Tuesday.
Wilmore and Williams could return to Earth on SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule, according to CNBC. The pair would return to Earth with fellow astronauts American Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov.
The departure from the International Space Station was scheduled for February, but it has been delayed.
In December, NASA said the SpaceX Crew-10 is targeting a launch from the ISS with the four astronauts "no earlier than late March 2025." The space agency said the delayed launch would give SpaceX more time to “complete processing” of the new passengers.
A spokesperson with NASA stated, "NASA and SpaceX are expeditiously working to safely return the agency’s SpaceX Crew-9 astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore as soon as practical, while also preparing for the launch of Crew-10 to complete a handover between expeditions."
NASA reportedly did not provide any new updates on the return of the astronauts and did not reveal if the comments made by Trump and Musk would accelerate the rescue mission timeline.
There are currently seven astronauts from around the world on the space station.
Earlier this month, NASA posted a YouTube video of the stranded astronauts at the International Space Station.
Then-NASA deputy chief Pam Melroy jokingly asked the crew, "So what you’re telling us is you’re not channeling ‘Cast Away’ and you don’t have a volleyball with a handprint on it that you call Wilson?”
Wilmore replied, “No, we’ve got a whole team up here so we’re not worried about that, and there’s a lot to do as well. ... We have tons of science experiments. ... We’ve got spacewalks coming up. It’s just been a joy to be working up here."
Williams and Wilmore are part of Expedition 72 — which began in September 2024 and ends in spring 2025 — to have astronauts "explore a variety of space phenomena to benefit humans on and off the Earth including pharmaceutical manufacturing, advanced life support systems, genetic sequencing in microgravity, and more."
The Boeing Starliner was developed under a more than $3 billion NASA contract under the space agency's Commercial Crew Program, according to Reuters.
The Starliner has allegedly had a history of uncrewed testing mishaps, several engineering challenges, and launch delays.
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A signal from outer space has finally been decoded. What does it mean?
A signal picked up by three observatories in 2023 has finally been decoded. The message left scientific teams with more questions than answers.
In May 2023, observatories captured a signal containing an alien-like message, and the raw data was uploaded to the internet for all to comb through.
Ken Chaffin and his daughter Keli obtained the data and worked on decoding the message. While Keli said she initially had no plans to join the effort, she quickly became mesmerized once she realized its scope.
The duo then worked for nearly a year, reportedly spending thousands of hours experimenting with various ideas and math simulations to figure it out. They uncovered a visualization of what appears to be five amino acids, but it is unclear what they represent. The visual is only displayed for about one-tenth of a second, but outlets have presented it as a video on loop, which may have caused some confusion.
"The original image that looks like a star map has always given me the appearance of biological life-forms," Keli Chaffin said in an email to CNN. "[A] lot of members have seen a mouse, a starfish, or an elephant."
Despite the message coming from outer space and being described by outlets as alien-like, it certainly originated from mankind.
The signal came from the SETI Institute in California, which, in 2023, decided to simulate the scenario of receiving a coded message from aliens or an unknown source in space. The signal was realistically sent from Mars to Earth by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, a satellite that measures methane and atmospheric gases around Mars.
The message traveled through space for a reported 16 minutes before being captured by the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, and the Medicina Radio Astronomical Station near Bologna, Italy.
The raw data had to be extracted from a purposeful entanglement of other data from the Mars spacecraft, and it took about 10 days to download and convert it into a visual format.
'I had no idea what the message would show or say.'
"I knew I had the skills to decode the message," Ken Chaffin said, stating that he has decades of work with the cellular automata computation model.
Cellular automata is a grid of cells in a checkerboard pattern that can show any number of patterns depending on which cells are "on" or "off." Depending on the grid's rules, it can depict static patterns, repeating patterns, or patterns that appear to be moving across the grid.
The Chaffins ran what they saw on the "star map" as cellular automata simulations and eventually generated the image of the amino acids.
"I had no idea what the message would show or say," Ken Chaffin added. "I suspected that it might have something to do with life."
He said it became clear once he saw the image that it was amino acids, recognizing them from chemistry class.
Chaffin has theorized that the message could represent hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen being transported through space to later be assembled into a life; a very interesting message were it actually from nonhumans.
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American hero Buzz Aldrin makes stunning endorsement
Legendary American astronaut Buzz Aldrin announced his endorsement in the 2024 presidential election — and leftists on social media are not taking it well.
"I believe we are best served by voting for @realDonaldTrump," Aldrin wrote in a lengthy statement on X on Wednesday morning. "I wholeheartedly endorse him for President of the United States."
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became a household name in July 1969 when he and fellow Apollo 11 crew member Neil Armstrong became the first men to walk on the moon. So it comes as no surprise that Aldrin endorsed Trump mainly because of the former president's interest in space defense and exploration.
"Over time, I have seen our government’s approach to space wax and wane. But under the first Trump Administration, I was impressed to see how human space exploration was elevated as a policy of high importance again," Aldrin said in his statement.
To support his claim, Aldrin noted that Trump founded Space Force and reinstituted the National Space Council. Key Trump allies in the private sector such as Elon Musk have likewise made "advancements" in space exploration technology, Aldrin added.
Aldrin met Trump in the Oval Office in 2019 to mark the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. While there, he lamented the recent reduction in funding for space programs.
'I did respect you, but you don’t respect any of the women in your life.'
In addition to discussing his concerns about space, Aldrin, 94, expressed concerns about the direction America is currently heading. He then indicated that Trump has the temperament and the "sober analysis" needed to withstand the "pressure" of the job "with firmness and follow-through."
"In times of uncertainty real leaders are most needed – to guide and inspire a people, to push through the noise, recognize what really matters, and accomplish missions critical to all citizens."
Aldrin did not make any reference to a political party or to Trump's opponent, Kamala Harris. Nevertheless, leftists on X railed against the beloved nonagenarian, claiming to have lost respect for him and his judgment.
"You just lost a fan. Donald Trump is a convicted felon traitor you back [sic]," wrote one disgruntled user who lists his manifold academic bona fides in his X bio.
"Such an unforced error. You know what it means to see the bigger picture, shame," another added.
Others claimed Aldrin was doing a disservice to women by voting for Trump.
""I have lost all respect I had for you. You should talk to the women in your life more," said one.
"Wow. I did respect you, but you don’t respect any of the women in your life. And with your own words, you state that the space program is more important to you than any women, their rights, their autonomy, or their ability to make decisions about their own body. Shameful," wrote another.
Some of those comments have dozens or even hundreds of likes.
With less than a week before Election Day, Trump currently holds a narrow national lead of just .4 and a lead in six of the seven battleground states, according to the RealClearPolling average.
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