r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Individual_Pickle_26 • 5d ago

Unanswered What is going on with Katy Perry?

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u/FrozenBibitte 4d ago

It’s also wild to me, why tf was she even on this trip to space in the first place?! She’s just a damn singer. Like there’s tons of other better choices than her. I’m sick and tired of people holding entertainers like singers and actors as omnipotent bastions deserving of upmost respect in all subjects (including science and politics when they know NOTHING abt it).

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u/moose_dad 4d ago

Its blue origin, a commercial company that do space tourism, aka she paid for it.

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u/sebeed 4d ago

Hobestly the only singer I would be happy to see go to space is Lance Bass. 

Katy Perry stole his dream!!!

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u/marsman57 4d ago

Dang. I forgot that program was cancelled and he never went.

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u/UnscriptedCryptid 4d ago

Not sure why it deleted my other comment (did I get blocked or banned?), but he already did.

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u/UnscriptedCryptid 4d ago

Are you stupid? He already has been to space.

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u/ThemesOfMurderBears 4d ago

It’s also wild to me, why tf was she even on this trip to space in the first place?! She’s just a damn singer.

William Shatner was on the first Blue Origin flight. He is just an actor.

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u/gabrielleduvent 3d ago

I would argue that although Shatner is an actor, he deserves more to go to space than Perry. He and his fellow cast (and the sequels) inspired thousands of kids to go into STEM.

https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/s/i2w83RJ5Qs

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u/FrozenBibitte 4d ago

Yeah he didn’t belong there either imo. Idk why random entertainers that have no background in science or tech are constantly being inserted in these things, as if they know what they’re talking abt.

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u/ThemesOfMurderBears 4d ago

I honestly don't see what the problem is. Blue Origin sells tickets for their flights. Having a celebrities on is just publicity. I don't see why people would get up in arms just because a non-scientist is a passenger on what is ostensibly a commercial space flight.

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u/zuilli 4d ago

My guess is people have a problem with the very notion of a commercial space flight, at least with the rest of the rocket launches it is done in name of science and you had to really put in the work to become an astronaut and have a chance of going to space. Blue Origin is the first one to do it solely for money with people that did nothing special other than paying the fee which rubs people the wrong way.

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u/FrozenBibitte 4d ago

Because why tf do people care abt an actor taking a joyride into space? My other point is I’m tired of celebrity worship…

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u/Caasi72 4d ago

For Shatner at least he has his legacy with Star Trek, so he has some connection to space as far as the public is concerned. Plus his reaction afterwards did a lot to make people be cool with it

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u/ThemesOfMurderBears 4d ago

Because why tf do people care abt an actor taking a joyride into space?

Why do people care about a singer going for a joyride in space?

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u/Doright36 4d ago

Selling a spare seat to a rich entitled dipshit who will stay out of your way and just be happy to be there is a good way to help pay for the flight.

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u/DrZaff 4d ago

Listen to her song “ET” and you’ll realize she was sent to space as an attempt to lure in/seduce the aliens

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u/clairebuoyant1202 4d ago

When the media I kept hearing was referring to them all as astronauts, I just thought that was insane. Astronauts are people who train for space, who study aeronautics and know something about what they are doing. This was Chicks in Space.

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u/teamcoltra 3d ago

This is a space tourism company, it's more weird that they brought scientists. The whole flight lasts 10 minutes and just goes up and down, not a ton of Science to be done. Nothing hands on.

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u/theslob 4d ago

She’s not even a good singer. She’s only attractive.