Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos, Billionaire Space Race Criticism
Richard Branson completed a suborbital flight aboard Virgin Galactic's space plane, sparking a public rivalry with Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin over the definition of the edge of space. Critics argue the billionaire space race is a poor use of capital given the rising homelessness and infrastructure issues in cities like San Francisco. The technical differences between the Karman line at 62 miles and the NASA-recognized 50-mile boundary serve as a point of contention between the two aerospace companies.
richard branson· jeff bezos· virgin galactic· blue origin· karman line· space tourism
00:00 I'm a podcaster, damn it! Not a TikToker. Adam Curry John C. Dvorak And Sunday July 11th 2021 this is your award-winning Gimbal Nation Media assassination episode 1363 This is no agenda Hi my Legos and broadcasting live from the heart of Texas Hill Country FEMA region number 6 in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley Hey we're fogged in again how about that? I'm John C. Dvorak Oh man, show day. Exciting day! So much going on we're all watching Richard Branson... oh he didn't die damn it Richard Branson just got back from space yeah he was doing like a FaceTime from the plane yeah it looked very much like a really dumb Disney ride
00:57 What did you accomplish Richard? Billionaires wasted a lot of money that could have gone to feeding the poor. Actually, I have a happen to have two clips about this today. Check this out Down to the wire as Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic showcases the final preps for its spaceship on Sunday flying 25000 feet before release Then rocketing to the Kármán line that marks the edge of space. NASA and the Air Force say that line is 50 miles high Virgin test pilots have already climbed 256 miles But now, the Bezos team is tweeting That only their rocket will climb 62 miles high The internationally recognized Kármán Line And their passenger astronauts won't have an asterisk by their names By the way they have bigger windows to gaze at the Earth
01:56 Blue Origin uses a rocket, Virgin Galactic uses a space plane with 17 windows. They are literally complaining about or comparing the features of this ride Oh he got more windows on this one! Oh you only get an asterisk if you fly with Branson means that you're not a real astronaut You're a plane-tronaut Or something like that You know, the rich have...the super-rich. We're talking about people that can just throw away a quarter of a million dollars on the joyride. They've got enough trouble with Warren going after them for billionaire's tax and all the rest. They're gonna end up with their heads on a stick if they keep this crap up
02:42 There's homeless in San Francisco that are just crawling all over the place and pooping in the streets. These are the same a-holes they're gonna go up on these rockets I'm telling you this is this is bad publicity for anyone who takes one of these rides This is stupid Do you think there's any climate change issue with these rockets do they? Consider it just thinking about it for a moment It has to personally that I'd like all billionaires to go in space and stay there. Yes! This was a funny report though, this is short one from CNBC and it...and I didn't at first I was like whoa then it took me just a really bad prompt to read but see if you can catch what I caught
03:21 Blue Origin uses a rocket, Virgin Galactic uses a space plane with 17 windows. If he was here he would argue that his experience is better than ours and I can give you lots of reasons why we think our experiences are better than his but they're both valid Bezos launches on the 20th bringing along one-time female NASA astronaut candidate Wally Funk. I want to say honey that was the best thing ever happened to me! Did you hear that? The one-time female? Yeah, that's what I heard. What was it a transtronaut? No she is only one time female. She is the female one time. Listen again... That was the time you well you know what happened It was Mexico! It was The Donkey Show! What can I say? Bringing along one-time female NASA astronaut candidate Wally Funk. See its one-time female NASA candidate astronaut but he said the MV punched female like what?!
04:16 Bringing along one-time female... Female?! Anyway, but it's yeah I think your thesis is right. They're idiots this is not a good look No, not with homeless in the streets. They got a situation this is just let me just take a quarter of a million of my dollars that I could just give to a food bank and I'm going to go up in space for five minutes and come back down and check off something off my box or I'm gonna brag about it at the country club This is not gonna work out for these guys It's just not going to work out. It has nothing but bad news written all over it and the idea that this is gonna become an industry which both Branson and Bezos seem to think, it's nuts! There's got to be a lot of cash in the system people just don't know what to do with their money anymore do they? Well there is a lot of cash in the system yeah and then the government's not helping by pumping in an extra trillion or two
05:18 Yeah, well... Doesn't seem to be doing any good. Still potholes in 80s! I hit one the other day and almost broke the car. Meanwhile they're pooping in the streets of San Francisco where's all this money going? Shoot man do we have the pooping in the streets didn't we have a poopin' in the street jingle or something? Poopin' in the streets, poopin' in the streets Everybody is poopin', they are poopin' in the streets And then there's nothing better when you're pooping on the streets in San Francisco Okay, that's going in the end of show bin I think we have to add that to today's mix don't you okay?
