Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-04-16 (Wednesday)

On Apr 17, 2025 at 1:30:41 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

BLUE ORIGIN FAKED SPACEFLIGHT??! KATY PERRY TRIP ACCUSED OF BEING STUNT AFTER
GAFFE ON VIDEO
 
Blue Origin FAKED Spaceflight??! Katy Perry Trip Accused of Being STUNT after
Gaffe On Video

I've been seeing a lot of this on the Twitters with everyone claiming that the
fact that the door was accidentally opened from inside, then hastily closed
again, proves the whole thing was fake.

I get that someone inside opening the door early nearly ruined the whole
choreographed production they were doing for the cameras at the landing site
and how stupid that was. But most of the "this proves it was fake" people are
claiming that the very fact that the capsule was able to be opened from inside
rather than outside is what proves the whole thing is a fake.

I'm like, huh? What?

Of course *any* space capsule will be designed so the occupants can open it
from inside. That's basic safety. The people need to be able to get out in an
emergency, or if they land somewhere unexpected where there's no one outside
to rescue them.

It'd be like a commercial airliner with doors that could only be opened from
outside in an emergency. Fat lot of good that would do you if you crash landed
in the wilderness somewhere, or in the ocean, and you had to get out before
the plane caught fire or sunk.