• Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.netEnglish
    381·
    4 months ago

    This, but the starting frame is a heat trap parking lot with nothing but death and concrete around.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    4 months ago

    I would also say “oh no” when I get to the moon and only then realize it’s not a planet.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    15·
    4 months ago

    So, back in 2021, William Shatner accepted an offer from Bezos to be flown into space for a few minutes. He played Captain Kirk in Star Trek for a gazillion years, so actually going to space was a life-long dream for him.
    Despite that, his experience was very much like the comic, just more …profound:

    […] when I looked in the opposite direction, into space, there was no mystery, no majestic awe to behold . . . all I saw was death.

    I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you can see or feel on Earth. It was deep, enveloping, all-encompassing. I turned back toward the light of home. I could see the curvature of Earth, the beige of the desert, the white of the clouds and the blue of the sky. It was life. Nurturing, sustaining, life. Mother Earth. Gaia. And I was leaving her. […]

    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. […] My trip to space was supposed to be a celebration; instead, it felt like a funeral.

    Source: https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/william-shatner-space-boldly-go-excerpt-1235395113/

    Also, if you want to see some real cringe, there’s videos of Shatner talking to Bezos after the landing, where he’s articulating these same deep thoughts. And when Bezos realizes that Shatner didn’t like space very much, he has to shut him up, of course, so he calls for his emotional support sluts to pass a champagne bottle for him to ejaculate over them.

    It’s such a bizarre disconnect from this 90-year-old man completely shook to his core, where you really want to listen to what he has to say, to Bezos interrupting him mid-sentence to just go do something else.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          Dunno. But it sounds awesome. Peaceful. Absent all the people I don’t like.

          Plenty of time to build out the infrastructure there. Especially the laser defense system to keep others away.

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      4·
      4 months ago

      It’s not that people didn’t want the first perfect Matrix, it’s that their disbelief that it could be true made it unstable.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 months ago

    Don’t worry. Soon the Earth will look like Mars, so we don’t have to bother going there to experience it.