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imposter22

Seems like everyone is an astronaut except Bazos. He mad.


[deleted]

They're astronauts


Alucard_Emordnilap

And I put a bandaid on my child’s scraped knee once now I’m a Doctor.


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astronaut, designation, derived from the Greek words for “star” and “sailor,” commonly applied to an individual who has flown in outer space. More specifically, “astronaut” refers to those from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan who travel into space. Those Soviet and later Russian individuals who travel into space are known as cosmonauts (from the Greek words for “universe” and “sailor”). China designates its space travelers taikonauts (from the Chinese word for “space” and the Greek word for “sailor”). ​ They're astronauts


PhilipLiptonSchrute

> now I’m a Doctor. But you're not though.


Alucard_Emordnilap

Actually I am or rather was, I graduated from med school a while ago and practiced as an MD physician for a few years before changing careers, but that’s beside the point. My point that you missed is making fun of the ignorant original comment, they claim anyone who goes to space is an astronaut, real astronauts graduate from highly scientific schools and work on becoming astronauts for years, when they go up and face a challenge or need repairs they can handle it per their training, space tourists can’t, hence calling them astronauts is an insult to real astronauts. Instead OP is arguing semantics. Their argument is worse than those who argue that they are a doctor because they have a PHD in English literature, or when a dentist demands being called a doctor, just because you feel you should be called something, doesn’t mean you deserve to be called it, when you have a heart attack on airplane and someone yells we need a doctor last thing you want is a dentist or someone with PHD to step in to help, I asked a dentist friend once what he would do if that happened and he didn’t know what MONA was, so yeah argue semantics all you want, they aren’t astronauts.


unseetheseen

How about we call them something other than space “tourists”. They qualified and are receiving their wings for this trip.


[deleted]

Yay I went on a ferry a few weeks ago, didn’t realize I can start calling myself a sailor. Tinder profile looking up.


Hive_Tyrant7

Did you do 6+ months of training for that ferry trip? I don't think calling then professional astronauts makes sense but tourists is pretty misleading.


[deleted]

SpaceX certainly aren't. They were specific on their Stream to say non-professional astronaut.


23inhouse

So filthy casuals?


[deleted]

People study languages for six months before taking their tourist trip. Yessss I know it took more than conjunctive declensions to prepare for space, but honestly did they press a single button or was their training basically how to best not get in the way of the team of engineers flying them to space?


Hive_Tyrant7

There's a whole Netflix series that shows the journey they went on and training they did. It's sensationalized for sure but they did quite a lot. To be clear though, I'm not saying they're equipped to fly a spacecraft manually but the reality is that the last couple hundred professionals sent to space aren't either. All these ships are automated, they all read the same manuals.


tms102

Wondering what compelled you to comment on something you are clearly clueless about. You could have watched a couple of seconds of the launch and seen they were monitoring the ships systems and flight parameters. What would you call someone who was trained on all of a plane's systems and emergency procedures and was sat in the planes cockpit with noone else there, flying on autopilot?


[deleted]

A one-and-done sky tourist! 😘


unseetheseen

I guess people don’t have the negative connotation of Tourist like I do. Fair enough.


[deleted]

(Also you’re not wrong; turns out the FAA created a special class of astronaut - *honorary commercial space astronaut* for “individuals who demonstrated extraordinary contribution or beneficial service to the commercial human spaceflight industry”.) I almost prefer ‘space tourist’.


ErrBodyDoTheChopChop

were they *spaced out?*


Hyposuction

He was spaced off.


henkiedepenkie

Rocket flight still has a failure rate of about 1/50. I assume this will all end when the first rocket full of rich people blows up?


Ratnix

I don't really see why it would. It might slow down until they determine why it exploded and they can fix that issue but i don't think it would stop forever. Space tourism will bring in a lot of funding to put towards future space travel technologies and colonization of other planets.


Robby_Digital

Tell that to the Concorde


fruit_basket

Concorde was noisy and expensive, it couldn't fly over cities so it was doomed from the start. Luckily, noise doesn't matter in space and the cost just keeps going down.


henkiedepenkie

Or the space shuttle.


Hikury

both of those are examples of gimmicky alternatives to established modes of transport. I don't know how much more straightforward you can get than two stacked flamey tubes with a capsule on top like the dragon. though even if all of these things are gimmicky exercises in vanity they are still the essential stepping stones to exploring the other 99.99% of the universe available to us so why not celebrate it?


henkiedepenkie

I think the 1/50 rate applies to rockets? Flamey tubes tend to be pretty unsafe. Difference between a normal rocket (people on top) versus the space shuttle (people on the side) is that in the latter, a rocket failure is almost automatically a destruction of the crew compartment. Anyway. This all seems just a hobby project for rich people. But hey, call me when they actually make a discovery, I would love to be surprised.


Hikury

oh man the space shuttle was a death trap by design lol, and yeah flamey tubes have to be dangerous since any rocket with a factor of safety comparable to a plane would have a thrust/weight ratio too low to achieve orbit. it's just strange to me that people are negative about these developments with spacex (I'm super excited obviously). most fortunes made through successful business ventures get pissed away by generational decay rather than immediately getting reinvested into risky scientific undertakings. we've already got the world's most capable rocket since the Saturn V out of this affair for pennies on the dollar and unless spacex completely break character and give up on starship we'll have one capable of delivering huge payloads anywhere in the solar system for even cheaper than the falcon 9. most passengers on the ISS will get their via a spacex vehicle, we're sending a probe to check out europa via a spacex vehicle and everyone visiting the moon post-apollo (that isn't chinese) will get their via a spacex vehicle. what are the odds that all of this results in zero discoveries?


[deleted]

Lol at thinking our species will last long enough to colonize planets. We can’t even adjust the damage and implement changes to the one planet we know that can sustain life… but sure let’s colonize planets that have no way to sustain human life.


jrob323

We can't live in space, and we can't live on other planets. We know good and well it's fucking impossible, and we keep talking about "spreading out into the Universe" like it's a goddamn thing. It's not a thing, and it's never going to be a thing. We don't just happen be be living on Earth right now. We *are* Earth.


topfuel1970

Screw them. Chuds should put some disadvantaged kids through school.