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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Sp you fell for it then? Capitalists doing capitalist things (marketing) and just because they all identified as women you can’t be critical of the obvious nonsense at play here? Grow up.

They did not reach space.

They did not pilot.

They went on a rollercoaster ride.

Remember how there have been actual all women-identifying NASA crews? That’s REAL progress in equality. Or were you not born yet?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They did reach space, as defined by a relatively arbitrary international agreement.

But yeah, passengers are not astronauts any more than I'm a pilot for buying a ticket on Air Asia to KLIA2.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

arbitrary

Fair point! :)

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

The truth is, the definition has to be arbitrary. There's no distinct point at which there suddenly goes from being atmosphere and therefore Earth to being no atmosphere and therefore space. The Kármán line is chosen because it is a nice round number roughly where aerodynamics stop being useful in planning spaceflight missions.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To play some devil's avocado here, not every astronaut is a pilot. Some are just like, geologists.

The simplest difference I can think of is that astronauts go to space on a mission and actually work and do a job.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah. That’s the whole point. Fair enough. The people on this commercial flight were there as a marketing tool not as a science tool.

At some point “astronaut” has to mean “did science in space” and not “bought a sightseeing ticket so a corporation could profit.”

I’m not a carnie because I spent 5 ride tickets on the coaster. Even if I buckled my own seatbelt.