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I have one question. If it was your money, would you choose to shoot William Shatner into space? Or would you put it towards something else? Like helping those in a. A crisis, feeding the hungry, solving other problems. What would you do
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 1:01
I think that I would focus on climate change if I had all this extra money. I think that shooting him into space, though, is that the price for going on these is about $200,000. So I don't think it's that much in terms of helping anybody in anything but in terms of the whole program itself. I think that I would be spending these billions of dollars on climate change
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:16
Based on your tone, Bowie, I felt like you were leading the question just a little bit with the examples you gave, which I like, because now I know your perspective. And Lisa, definitely 200K is not going to change the world. But the space program in general, a lot of money, different times in our history. Balance was always the conversation. Well, let's have the balance between shooting for the stars literally and taking care of what's going on right now on the planet
Clay Lowe
@soulcruzer · 0:56
I don't know, Bowie. I think you gotta send Captain Kirk up into space. You know, he's probably responsible for inspiring a generation of people to dream about space travel. And many of whom worked on the project to get people into space, were probably inspired by Star Trek and Rodberg's creation there. But I get your point when you look at the economics of it seems like an awful lot of money for ten minutes in space
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:54
I totally agree with you. As far as climate change, it is the most pressing issue for me and has been for the past 20 years, especially. So I think it's partially why I can't but laugh a little bit at news items like this and just it's going to be more and more common. I think that we continue to see celebrities, famous people going to space for large sums of money. And obviously the program itself is quite large
Bowie Rowan
@bowie · 0:58
It made me smile and also just made me happy thinking about the complexity of not only just human beings continuing to travel in space, but also the way in which the imagination of creators and actors and writers, how they've dreamed of it, how many of these things are starting to come to life, and how beautiful and amazing and also complicated and scary and frustrating that all can be at the same time
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 1:42
But now it seems that the idea of publicity is more important than William Shatner is being shot into space because of his connection to Star Trek, and because it's kind of a novel idea and it's turning into its own television program in itself. Which person are we going to send off into space today? It could become a game show. I guess so. Anyway, I probably have seen it unless you had mentioned it. But I went and saw it, and I wasn't impressed
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