Disney has increased their prices so much, that only rich people can afford it anymore. The really rich pay for private tours and special access. So what do they have to do to show that they are even better than the "average" rich person?

Go to space.

I hope this becomes the new staus symbol of the wealthy, and they start shooting up larger and larger tourist rockets, until one explodes and wipes out 100 Sociopathic Oligarchs at once.

🎵 now I ain’t sayin she’s a gold digger

They haven't contributed to spaceflight advancement in truly innovative ways. At least SpaceX manages to catch some of their rockets when falling back to Earth. Blue Origin's only claim to fame is that it's a slightly more advanced vomit comet, which we've had for decades at this point.

Their first orbital rocket, New Glenn, had its inaugural flight earlier this year. IIRC, it performed rather well in the "launch to orbit" aspect, but they lost the booster as it was coming back to land on a drone ship. It'll take them time to iron out the kinks, but as long as they don't scrap the project, I don't see why it couldn't become a contender in heavy lift.

I've looked back at the Earth, it's quite a view.
A new height for me to look down on you,
I'm the Queen of space and you are a peasant.
Stuck to the ground, it's so unpleasant.

I've been to space and I'm better than you,
I've been to space and I'm better than you,
I've been to space and I'm better than you,
I've been to space and I'm better than you.

written by 50 producers, focus tested over 100 iterations, lip synced to when "performed" live, and scores a bajillion dollars.

And people hate AI for some reason. Obviously this shit will be overflowing with "Soul^TM^ "

“Look girls, IM REALLY RICH! Bezos might have destroyed thousands of women’s lives, but he sent ME to space! Idolize me for being so rich I get everything for free! Bow down peasants!”

I wish it would have exploded and so people could dance in the rain of her blood.

It wasn't even a trip into orbit. Their rather short voyage was a sub-orbital hop. A low orbit of Earth requires a speed on the order of 8 km per second - Blue Origin can make about Mach 3, from what I read, which is circa 1 km per second. You go up, you go down. That's it. They don't even go particularly high (~100 km), and the apogee doesn't keep you "above the atmosphere" (LOL) for long. Given the risks, I'm not sure it's worth it, personally.

If we really want to inspire people by pointing out women's accomplishments in spaceflight and space exploration, maybe we should be talking about people like Eileen Collins (astronaut on key shuttle/station missions), Lindy Elkin-Stanton (science lead for Psyche, the first to a metallic asteroid), Maria Zuber (lead the GRAIL mission to the Moon, co-discovered the rifts in the Ocean of Storms), or Mimi Aung (lead engineer for the Ingenuity 'copter on Mars 2020). And I've only mentioned a few Americans with recent work here; the rest of the world has plenty of enterprising female space scientists and aerospace engineers.

I share the general distaste in this thread and on Lemmy generally for this sort of celebrity stunt, and I'm glad to see the criticism. I do sometimes think, however, that for a certain kind of person, Bezos and Musk are becoming associated or even synonymous with spaceflight/exploration generally, which is a dangerous association to make. People have many, diverse and very legitimate reasons for going to space - there's a lot more going on than joyrides and ego trips.

What does bios firmware have to do with this?