Richard Branson's Space Trip

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Jesse Singal is the author of "The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can't Cure Our Social Ills" and the cohost of the podcast "Blocked and Reported." Check out more of his stuff at jessesingal.substack.com/about.

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How about that Richard Branson guy just fucking shoot himself off into space and people are so mad at him? I said on Twitter, I feel like my invite got lost in the mail. I should have been on that shit. Would you have gone? No, I'm too good. I'm too anxious. Also, when you- Imagine he died. You'll go? Jamie doesn't give a fuck. Richard Branson, if you're listening, Jamie will join you on your next voyage. Jamie's the least part alien. Jamie's immune to edibles. He and Eddie gotta go. Yeah, Eddie should go. I gotta go with him. Yeah. Eddie would think it's a hologram. It's a hologram. That's why I'm here. Imagine if you took Eddie up into space and he still didn't believe that the Earth was round. We're both gonna have a camera and a non-edited fund. Bro, they tricked you with a hologram. You don't even understand. Imagine if he's right. That'd be so funny. You get up there and it's just- That would be fucking crazy if that's why there's no good video from the fucking thing. Imagine if we get up there and Eddie's right all along and I gotta eat crow. We gotta go higher. Sorry, Eddie. The Earth's flat. Yeah, I mean imagine if you died right next to Richard Branson. You dumb motherfucker. Make me go up in your stupid rocket ship and blow up. That's how I wanna go. I don't fucking rocket ship. Elon Musk has a ticket to ride on Richard Branson's space plane. Um, do you trust it? I don't know if I trust it. Like those things- They blow up a lot. They blow up his- 1% is too big for that. Elon's blow up. They've blown up a few times, right? On the launch pad and trying to land. I still don't understand how airplanes work. Like how they're safe so I'm not fucking getting off the station. Yeah. Well, Elon was explaining to me that the blow ups and the failure was actually built in into the equation of, you know, like the way they're designing these things was going to be failure because they're trying to test the tolerances to figure things out. That's the whole idea of tests. Because some of them are gonna fail. So it wasn't disturbing to him at all when these rockets were blowing up. He's like, now we know why it blew up and we'll fix that and now this one won't blow up and then we'll fix that. I know, but he's not gonna come on and be like, wow, yeah, we're fucked. Well, he wouldn't- no, no, no, no, no. He would. He would. 100%. He's guileless. That guy does not lie. He is not interested in lying. You can say whatever you want about Elon Musk. He might be wildly eccentric and maybe even stretch too thin because he has so many different projects he works on constantly. That guy is not a liar by any stretch of the imagination. He's discussing the way they've designed this protocol for engineering these rockets that they knew that they were gonna have failures. It's part of the process, I guess. I mean, it made sense, right? Like, how the fuck else are you gonna build a rocket? You gotta test it. You gotta test them. They're gonna blow up. And when they blow up, it's spectacular. It's beautiful. Filled with rocket juice, you know? I'm not interested though, man. I mean, not until they got that shit down, you know, down to a science. You can do it if it was like airline level safety. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that. Yeah. But until then, fuck off. No, I'll let other people do it. What am I gonna do? I'm gonna get up and then go down? Yeah, it is round. It's just like the video. Fuck you. I'm saying it right here. And then the other thing that freaks me out if you get into real space, like orbit, is space junk. You know, that's just fucking taking you out. Some Russian satellite from 1965. Some random Chinese bolt hits you in the forehead going 500,000 miles an hour or whatever the fuck it's going. I think there's not, but is there a chance they accidentally go too far? I'm like, oh, we gotta go around twice before we can come back. Yeah, no food for a couple of weeks. Yeah, we're gonna have to eat each other. Eat each other, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Who the fuck knows? I just, I would hate to see Richard Branson blow up in space because that would set back space travel. It's kind of crazy that, I mean, I don't know how long they planned it in advance, but he only went like 50 miles, right? Is that the idea? The edge of space. So it's very disputed, like what it is. Like, was it even dark where he was at? I saw a picture, it looked like half, half dark, half, half earth. I bet you gotta go dark. And then it turns upside down so they can see whatever. I mean, you know what I'm saying? Like, you can't go camping during the day. But they did. Oh, they slept during the day. That's not camping. They did race. They were in the woods at night. Tore up and beat Jeff Bezos who's going next week. He's supposed to go next Tuesday or Wednesday or something. He must be so mad. Imagine if he dies. Because he just handed over the CEO of his company. He's not the CEO anymore, right? His wife married a science teacher. He's probably like, ahh. And then he gets in that rocket and fucking blows up. Is he going to deep space? Is he going out, out? I kind of think it's the same thing, but instead of going like a rollercoaster on a plane, they're going up in a balloon and then come back down. In a balloon? Yeah. Jeff Bezos is going to a balloon? I take that back, but they come down in a parachute. A parachute? Yeah, I was picturing something like that. C.E.U.Lon's got a way better system. His rocket is actually going to land. He's got it down. That's better. Yeah.