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

In article <vtrn2s$1asvn$3@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

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

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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 think it was fake, but in the sense that professional wrassling is fake.
This was just a publicity stunt. Those women were glorified passengers, nothing more.

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.
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I'm like, huh? What?
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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.

I think they used to only be openable from the outside, using wrenches and
screwdrivers, before the Apollo 13 accident and the crew were trapped inside.