Friday, 22 October 2021

Out Of This Earth?

I suppose we must make exceptions for the fact that William Shatner is a 90 year old Canadian actor. Logic, however, doesn't seem to be his thing. When Shatner returned from his trip on the Blue Horizon rocket, he gushed that 'Everybody in the world needs to do this'. Providing trips for a tiny proportion of people on the planet, would ensure the extinction of all complex life on the planet (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/22/fool-fellow-actors-criticise-william-shatner-space-flight-joan-collins-brian-cox). When critised about the carbon emissions generated by his jolly, Shatner grandly announced that it was a 'baby step of getting industry, all those polluting industries off Earth'. Just how, does firing a 90-year old briefly into space, do any such thing? Running Amazon from the moon? Some of Shatner's actor colleagues have described his actions as being those of a fool. I suspect, however, that other VIPs will be tempted by the publicity generated by Shatner's trip.

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