F-bombs and Space Travel: Let’s get our priorities straight, people
Virgin Galactic announced the completion of the first “captive carry” of their future commercial spaceship, the VSS Enterprise. Hello, Star Trek, with bonus keywords like “mothership” and “spaceship.” They even posted a nice under-3 minute video of the event:
However. Today’s “NewsPulse” on CNN.com showed that the story of Joe Biden’s smooth “This is a big fucking deal” on-mic remark to our president was waaaaay more popular than the little news blip about, oh, I don’t know, THE FIRST TEST FLIGHT OF THE FIRST COMMERCIAL SPACECRAFT, which was a story on the Tech section if you were paying attention.
Biden’s F-bomb was apparently such a big fucking deal that it was even listed twice in the Top 5 most popular stories. WTF. Why don’t people understand that commercial space travel has the potential to change our lives so much more than a VP who accidentally* swears on-mic?
*Conspiracy theorists may feel free to say that Biden intentionally swore to draw attention away from something else. Whatever. SPACE TRAVEL FOR ME SOMEDAY.
Saying that it was a “big fucking deal” ironically made it seem unimportant. Good job Joe and AP.