Jeff Bezos Picks 18-Year-Old Dutch Student for Blue Origin Rocket Launch

[basquebromance]

the government has dropped the ball on space exploration. i'm glad someone has picked it up

Blue Origin: Teenager to fly into space with Jeff Bezos

Oliver Daemen, 18, will become the youngest person to fly to space with the Blue Origin venture.

www.bbc.com

 

[miketx]

I hope it goes well.

 

[August West]

the government has dropped the ball on space exploration. i'm glad someone has picked it up

Blue Origin: Teenager to fly into space with Jeff Bezos

Oliver Daemen, 18, will become the youngest person to fly to space with the Blue Origin venture.

www.bbc.com

Unlike science, the budget for new weapons has no limits.

 

[Confederate Soldier]

"Good luck and Godspeed".

 

[Synthaholic]

Matt Gaetz would have picked a 15 year old.

 

[gipper]

Fuck Bezos. The man is a psychopath.

 

[marvin martian]

Matt Gaetz would have picked a 15 year old.

Joe Biden would have picked an 8 year old (with long hair).

 

[basquebromance]

Cornel West says he's against this because they could have used the money "to feed poor black folk in Harlem"

 

[basquebromance]

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

the government has dropped the ball on space exploration. i'm glad someone has picked it up

Blue Origin: Teenager to fly into space with Jeff Bezos

Oliver Daemen, 18, will become the youngest person to fly to space with the Blue Origin venture.

www.bbc.com

That boy looks like a nazi brown shirt!!!
So when do the riots start?

 

[basquebromance]

watch live here! launches in 10 minutes!

 

[basquebromance]

not to be a dick, but we are on earth, earth is in space...so we are all in space!

 

[candycorn]

Contemplate for a moment how many lives this pinhead could have changed with this money...how many single parents he could have set up for life (not to mention their kids).... how many endangered species he could have helped save...how many of the homeless he could have sheltered.

I just got two blasts on my phone celebrating this vanity stunt that will deliver nothing to mankind. It's not his responsibility, I know... It just sucks that we as a people place spend so much time celebrating celebrity instead of real contribution that gimmicks like this are on the radar of someone with too much money to spend and no idea how to spend it.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Touchdown!
And now they've achieved what we already did on May 5th 1961.

 

[basquebromance]

"this is the best day ever", Bezos said after a successful landing

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Contemplate for a moment how many lives this pinhead could have changed with this money...how many single parents he could have set up for life (not to mention their kids).... how many endangered species he could have helped save...how many of the homeless he could have sheltered.

I just got two blasts on my phone celebrating this vanity stunt that will deliver nothing to mankind. It's not his responsibility, I know... It just sucks that we as a people place spend so much time celebrating celebrity instead of real contribution that gimmicks like this are on the radar of someone with too much money to spend and no idea how to spend it.

I'm quite certain Bezos already gives more to charity than you and your family will ever give in a thousand lifetimes.

 

[basquebromance]

"it's dark up here,", the 18 year old bellowed

 

[candycorn]

I'm quite certain Bezos already gives more to charity than you and your family will ever give in a thousand lifetimes.

True....

All of the money wasted on this gimmick would have helped.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Fuck Bezos. The man is a psychopath.

Apparently, so are you.

 

[percysunshine]

10 minute ride with 4 minutes of weightlessness.

Selling tickets for $500,000;

Six Flags over Bezos amusement park to open soon in west Texas.

On his ‘Best day ever!’ Jeff Bezos traveled to space — and spurred a backlash

Jeff Bezos, creator of Amazon and the richest man in the world, blasted off Tuesday morning atop a New Shepard rocket built by his space company, Blue Origin. He and three others were on the successful 10-minute, 10-second flight.

www.seattletimes.com