News · moment 4 of 19
Suborbital Tourism and Wishing for a Rocket Disaster
from #250 - The New Shepard | The Tim Dillon Show · #250
5 min
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Continuing with the Bezos/Branson space race story, Tim discusses ticket pricing for suborbital flights and jokes about wanting a Challenger-style explosion to take out rich space tourists.
- Blue Origin announcing ticket sales for New Shepard suborbital tourism rides.
- Tim acknowledges space exploration is worthwhile but finds the commercialization funny.
- Tim jokes that woke corporate culture will force Blue Origin to send a randomly selected poor woman to space alongside rich passengers for optics.
- White people are sick of the planet they've destroyed and want to escape it.
- Tim wonders if there'd be anything wrong with a Challenger-like explosion killing the wealthy space tourists but sparing the one working-class person among them.
- Calling suborbital tourism Tim's favorite phrase now.
- Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic pricing suborbital tourism at $200,000 to $250,000 per ticket.
- Tim on billionaires: being rich now means watching the world burn beneath you during a space joyride.
Jeff BezosBlue Originspace tourismRichard BransonVirgin Galactic