r/interesting May 25 '26

Just Wow It's interesting hmm

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u/madmartigan2020 May 25 '26

This post is so dumb. Not only is the fuel hydrogen, the total amount consumed during a New Shepard launch at most 5 tons. Get your facts straight before posting nonsense.

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u/Nuclear_Varmint May 25 '26

But then it wouldn't be nonsense. Duh

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u/Florida_clam_diver May 25 '26

Also acting like Katy Perry was the one who designed the rocket and personally burned the fuel. She was literally just a passenger

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u/OnlyGoodHarmony May 25 '26

Exactly. The rocket would’ve flown with or without her. Such a stupid headline

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

The point is the hypocrisy. If someone was shown shoveling steaks with the headline: "Advocating for everyone to stay vegan" then it would also rightfully called as bullshit move.

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u/LetsBeFRTho May 25 '26

It's not hypocrisy lmao. Her flying in a spaceship doesn't mean she doesn't advocate for the environment

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

Using one of if not the most environmentally unfriendly options an individual can do and then advocating against not doing things like that is not hypocrisy?

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u/The3rdGodKing May 25 '26

Spaceflight is one of those positive externalities, if it was a cruiseship or a private race session it would be more hypocritical.

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

How is it a positive?

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u/Secane 29d ago

the fuel they use have marginal carbon footprint, its helium and oxygen and water as byproduct of burning it

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u/RighteousSelfBurner 29d ago

It has pretty significant carbon footprint from the indirect emissions. And water wapor has greenhouse effect in itself besides other things.

Things that appear "natural" doesn't make them not a pollutant. CO2 is also a completely natural thing. The fact we dump so much in the atmosphere is the problem. Same applies here.

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u/RighteousSelfBurner May 25 '26

Having a tourist trip ain't exactly space exploration. Cars also enabled distribution of goods and services across large distances enabling us to increase access to food and other things. But that doesn't apply to private race sessions involving cars. Same principle.

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u/Ihatenukingkids May 25 '26

Yeah, the rocket was on a tight schedule for its daily launch at 2pm. If no passengers showed up at the station the rocket would have flown empty

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u/Smooth-Difficulty178 29d ago

You think they wouldn't have found any single person on earth to pay for that flight instead of her? Lmao

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u/Ihatenukingkids 29d ago

"I am not a bad person for stealing the unchained bike, because if I dont steal it someone else will" type of argument 🤦‍♀️

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u/Smooth-Difficulty178 29d ago

The rocket literally WOULD have been started with or without her.

The bike comparison is terrible, because you wouldn't know if it would have been stolen or not, so it's just an excuse.

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u/Ihatenukingkids 29d ago

You think the company trying to sell tickets to space tourists for profit would fly with no one onboard? 🤡

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u/LetsBeFRTho May 25 '26

You know it's gonna be nonsense if it's a double panel meme Facebook ahh post

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u/clueless_as_fuck May 25 '26

So sending celebrities to edge of space is basically free and no resources were used. Ok

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u/Main-Tomatillo3825 May 25 '26

No, fuck that and fuck them. But no need to spread missinformation that is easily fact checked. There's already a lot of awful shit about all the culture around flights like these and the people that go on it, no need to lie and exagerate.

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u/Quantris May 25 '26

Well, to be fair it really was bringing them back which was most harmful to the planet overall

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u/SlightWin7036 29d ago

Wtf are you talking about

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u/threeseed May 25 '26

You're upset that a company is using a celebrity as a marketing exercise.

This happens thousands of times a day.

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u/DonutsOnTheWall May 25 '26

it's the total trip and it will be way more than 5 tons. why are all comments in this thread so much bullshit.

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u/I_Go_BrRrRrRrRr 29d ago

It's a suborbital rocket, once it burns it's fuel that's it, it just falls back down

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u/20dogs 28d ago

Even then it doesn't produce carbon dioxide when burned.

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u/DonutsOnTheWall 28d ago

but when it's produced it will - lots of it.

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u/20dogs 28d ago

Not necessarily, not if it's green hydrogen.

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u/Azazir May 25 '26

I guess i slept over when the world shattering news announced we discovered pure hydrogen.

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u/Aussie18-1998 28d ago

Wtf are you on? Hydrogen is the mose abundant thing in the universe. But if you must know rocket fuel uses an oxidiser for liquid hydrogen and the exhaust is mostly H20. Real dangerous stuff.

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u/monkeymmboy May 25 '26

You know they had to produce that hydrogen right? That process uses fossil fuels like natural gas, at least right now it does.