On July 20, Jeff Bezos, richest man in the world and founder of Amazon, went into space with a New Shepard rocket from his Blue Origin: “It was the best day of my life,” he said as soon as he returned to Earth.
It was also an event followed live by millions of people thanks to Internet and also an inexhaustible source of memes and jokes. Especially on the shape of the rocket, which indisputably looks like a penis.
The appearance of the missile, which like all other missiles it is very long, but unlike the others it has a very large tip (detail that favors the comparison with the male genital organ), it generated a lot of irony: there are those who wrote that “my father saw the first man arrive on the moon, I I saw the man who destroyed the bookshelves go into space aboard a gigantic c …”And who spoke of bored middle-aged billionaires trying to make up for who knows what shortcomings.
twitter: one of the many ironic tweets about the Bezos rocket
A shape that has a reason
And yet, the New Shepard rocket is shaped like it does for a reason. Indeed two: first of all, it is very large at the top because the main purpose of Blue Origin is to start space tourism, to bring people into Space. And make them pay for it. IS the larger the cabin, the more people can find a place inside at the same time and the more money Bezos will earn with each launch
Then there is a technical reason: as explained to Tech Insider by engineer Pedro Llanos, a lecturer at Embry Riddle University in Daytona, Florida, who in the past has organized flights with Blue Origin, that form there would be useful for “maximize the stability of the rocket upon its reentry on earth”.
Blue Origin’s “no comment”
Beyond everything, among the many things written on the subject, among many meme, gif e tweet, perhaps the piece that makes the most laugh is just that of Tech Insider, which ends with “we asked Blue Origin for a comment on the story, but they didn’t answer us”. Why do you imagine the conversation a little:
“Soon? Hi, I’m from Tech Insider, we wanted to ask Jeff because his rocket looks like a c … “
“Sorry?”
“We wanted to ask Jeff why …”
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