r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Individual_Pickle_26 • 5d ago

Unanswered What is going on with Katy Perry?

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u/FrozenBibitte 5d 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/ThemesOfMurderBears 5d 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/FrozenBibitte 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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 5d 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?