Captain Kirk launching into space

[FelixDeCat]

Beam me up Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here.

Congrats Capt. Kirk!

 

[FelixDeCat]

Time for Picard and Janeway to go into space.

 

[Kaido]

1 - awesome that people can just go to space now

2 - awesome that Kirk went to space

3 - awesome that a 90-year-old went to space

 

[Kaido]

Post-landing response:

William Shatner on space flight: Most profound experience I can imagine | CNN Business

Actor William Shatner speaks with Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos after landing from a sub-orbital space flight aboard the New Shepard.

www.cnn.com

"I hope that I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now." Dang. Imagine flying up there & seeing the vastness of space out the window.

 

[Scarpozzi]

He,he. Just saw CNN playing a video of Shatner reciting Rocket Man, wearing a tux, and about 45 pounds lighter.

Sheeat, everything's on the internet.

William Shatner "Sings" 'Rocket Man' (1978) - BEST QUALITY! (msn.com)

^^^^^^ I see someone already spotted the gem.

I want to hear him do Bob Dylan and Shat the Bed.

"Lay.........Lady..........Lay.......... Lay..........Across........My........Big.........Brass..........Bed......."

 

[ch33zw1z]

at 90, yolo'ing? good on ya kirk.

 

[nOOky]

Surprisingly the majority of people I know don't have any desire to go into space. Good for Bill, I'd do in a heart beat if I could.

 

[hal2kilo]

I want to hear him do Bob Dylan and Shat the Bed.

"Lay.........Lady..........Lay.......... Lay..........Across........My........Big.........Brass..........Bed......."

Hey now, that used to be one of my big Karaoke numbers.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Hey now, that used to be one of my big Karaoke numbers.

My kids got a Karaoke machine for Christmas last year that has Bluetooth built-in. I've got a Youtube playlist of songs that I've been practicing for lake parties when the pandemic is over with.

It's funny cause Rocketman happens to be in my range and I can even hit the high notes pretty good.

I may have to check on that one for the heck of it. (though I don't normally mumble when I sing like Dylan and the slide guitar music or whatever that is always depresses me)

 

[cytg111]

So with regular folks going to space now……. Mile high club? Bitch please.
Suck cock in spaaaaaaaaaaaaace….

 

[woolfe9998]

So with regular folks going to space now……. Mile high club? Bitch please.
Suck cock in spaaaaaaaaaaaaace….

Dunno about this. What would sex in a weightless environment be like?

You: thrust in.
Her: floats away.

 

[cytg111]

Dunno about this. What would sex in a weightless environment be like?

You: thrust in.
Her: floats away.

Something straps and rubber bands… Ill make it work or die trying

 

[tweaker2]

Something straps and rubber bands… Ill make it work or die trying

And by all means go for the tap out, it's the only way of thoroughly completing the task at hand.

 

[pmv]

Dunno about this. What would sex in a weightless environment be like?

You: thrust in.
Her: floats away.

[Stolen Moonraker joke about 'attempting re-entry' goes here]

 

[sportage]

Shatner was very emotional. Good thing he never cried as captain of the USS Enterprise. And $250,000 sounds fair for a short trip into space. Being way up there is kinda like a cat caught in a tree hoping it can get back down. Not a good place to have a panic attack, for sure.

 

[Scarpozzi]

So with regular folks going to space now……. Mile high club? Bitch please.
Suck cock in spaaaaaaaaaaaaace….

I would hope a second party would be involved to play catcher. In a zero gravity environment and one of you guys going solo as per usual, everything would turn South upon reentry when your Skittles don't float anymore. That module would light up like a Christmas tree if you hit it with a black light.

 

[MichaelMay]

Dunno about this. What would sex in a weightless environment be like?

You: thrust in.
Her: floats away.

'tis like Welshman fucking a sheep and it just walks away. The life of the Welsh is not easy that way.

 

[Scarpozzi]

'tis like Welshman fucking a sheep and it just walks away. The life of the Welsh is not easy that way.

That's shear loneliness.

 

[nOOky]

This thread took a turn for the worse fast. Everyone knows sheep herders wear tall boots so they can wedge the sheep's hind legs in them so they stay put. I would imagine something similar could be worked out in zero G.

 

[ralfy]

An interesting excerpt from his book; his view reminds me of Lovecraft's cosmic nihilism.

William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With ‘Overwhelming Sadness’ (EXCLUSIVE)

In an excerpt from William Shatner's new book, 'Boldly Go,' the 'Star Trek' actor reflects on his voyage into space on Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space shuttle on Oct. 13, 2021.

variety.com

I continued my self-guided tour and turned my head to face the other direction, to stare into space. I love the mystery of the universe. I love all the questions that have come to us over thousands of years of exploration and hypotheses. Stars exploding years ago, their light traveling to us years later; black holes absorbing energy; satellites showing us entire galaxies in areas thought to be devoid of matter entirely… all of that has thrilled me for years… but when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death.

...

It was among the strongest feelings of grief I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness. Every day, we are confronted with the knowledge of further destruction of Earth at our hands: the extinction of animal species, of flora and fauna . . . things that took five billion years to evolve, and suddenly we will never see them again because of the interference of mankind. It filled me with dread. My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

 

[BoomerD]

'tis like Welshman fucking a sheep and it just walks away. The life of the Welsh is not easy that way.

That's why they always fuck them at the edge of a cliff...so the sheep will push back.

 

[hal2kilo]

My kids got a Karaoke machine for Christmas last year that has Bluetooth built-in. I've got a Youtube playlist of songs that I've been practicing for lake parties when the pandemic is over with.

It's funny cause Rocketman happens to be in my range and I can even hit the high notes pretty good.

I may have to check on that one for the heck of it. (though I don't normally mumble when I sing like Dylan and the slide guitar music or whatever that is always depresses me)

Dylan's great, you need no range.

 

[fskimospy]

Dylan's great, you need no range.

Bob Dylan would be my karaoke avatar as my vocal rage is basically equivalent to a text message.

 

[tweaker2]

Hope rocket has enough thrust to get William Fatner into orbit

I think his inflated ego is heavier still........much heavier.

 

[tweaker2]

Surprisingly the majority of people I know don't have any desire to go into space. Good for Bill, I'd do in a heart beat if I could.

I'd do it too because having a bunch of astrophotogs as friends whose passion is taking pictures of those awesome things spinning and exploding out there in the cosmos, I like taking pictures of planets and deep space like they do, only I'd prefer to take pics of mother earth first and foremost the same way they do with the other planets in our solar system from terra firma. Yes, eventually got'ta go to the moon to do that, and yes, I'd love go there instead of zipping around the world in low orbit.

Maybe someday.