Space Breasts

[WilliamPitt]

Someone had the bright idea to take no-bullshit gorgeous model Kate Upton, stuff her into a tiny bikini, and take her onto G-Force One, also known as the "Vomit Comet" - one of those planes they use to simulate zero-gravity for movies like "Apollo 13" - so they could photograph her tits in zero gravity.

Now, I like boobs as much as the next heterosexual male, but 1. This looked like no fun for anyone, 2. It astonishes me to what lengths the skin industry will go to show boobs in a new and different way...ermahgerd, zero gravity berbs, they bounce weird, ermahgerd...and finally, 3. How much did this mess cost? Know anyone who is hungry or short on heating fuel this winter?

I offer this as further proof: the fucking country is NOT BROKE. If we can take tits into space to take pictures of them, we are NOT BROKE. Our priorities, however, are so far up our asses they are coming out of our ears. Covered in shit. And stupid hyperexpensive tits pictures.

[pinboy3niner]

1. Skinner locked it!

[WilliamPitt]

3. Good.

The phenomenon behind it - taking pleasure from a woman getting bounced around a fuselage in her underwear - deserves further discussion. That video looked like a strip club getting into a car accident. Who thinks that's sexy, like, at all?

[MannyGoldstein]

2. Well, it wasn't space

Only a parabolic (IIRC) path in the atmosphere. A lot cheaper than putting any portion of Ms. Upton into space.

But point taken.

[WilliamPitt]

4. It was a representation of space.

It cost money to simulate space.

Because boobs.

Bends the mind, Manny. Bends the mind.

[Fumesucker]

5. Much better the money is spent on bombing wedding parties on the other side of the planet

Fuck, we spent more money to air condition tents in Afghanistan and Iraq than we did on NASA's entire budget for a long time.

[TheMathieu]

6. It wasn't funded by the government.

While I am of the attitude that the wealthy are not taxed enough... it's none of our business what people, that pale in comparison to the top 1%, pay to take pictures of boobs in zero gravity.

"But what else would that money have bought" is a total buzzkill.

[WilliamPitt]

7. "is a total buzzkill"

[awoke_in_2003]

71. That is hypnotic. nt

[quinnox]

8. I think it may be a sign of the coming apocalypse

LOL. I can't believe this stuff they come up with. It is beyond stupid, who comes up with this stuff? Some idiot executive at Sports Illustrated no doubt thought this was a brilliant idea.

[Warpy]

9. Thank you, Will

One of the benefits of being a late riser is missing much of the juvenile bullshit on DU and it sounds like that thread was a shining example of it.

The US is not broke, it's swimming in money. The US just refuses to distribute the money fairly among the people who generate it: the workers.

So there is plenty of money for some overgrown adolescent to send a woman whose only discernible talent is on her chest into zero gravity to see what that chest does.

There's just not enough for working people to feed themselves and their kids.

[Bok_Tukalo]

10. I've read quite a bit of science fiction

After watching that, I realize they lied. The mechanics look almost impossible to overcome.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Trash thread is your friend

I no longer bother with those posts. Just trash them.

It shows where we are as a country though, not a happy place.

[WilliamPitt]

13. I watched it

because, to be totally honest, Kate Upton blows my mind. Ten seconds into it, I wanted to hijack the plane and take her off it. It was eerily reminiscent of the one time I got talked into going to a strip club years ago. "Yay, boobies!...Wait, this is awful...oh, God, get me out of here." Just yuck. All yuck. Comprehensive yuck. And, by the way, we are NOT BROKE if shit like this is happening.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. It was poorly made soft porn

agreed

[wocaonimabi]

12. Link with pics or video would be helpful, taxpayers need to see how our taxes are being spent

[pinboy3niner]

14. Oy!

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. The vomit comet is a private company

[wocaonimabi]

19. Mr Pitt implied that tax dollars were used for this activity

When he stated “I offer this as further proof: the fucking country is NOT BROKE. If we can take tits into space to take pictures of them, we are NOT BROKE.”

Implies public dollars were used, not private.

Private money, who really cares what they do with it?

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Because we spend money in useless crap

instead of things we should. If you missed that, well let me join Mister Pinboyner with this

[wocaonimabi]

25. Yes We, as in the Gov, spend money on useless crap

and yes individuals spend money on useless crap but who gets to determine what is or is not useless crap?

Nobody asked me.

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. I am sorry if you still miss it

perhaps we should dissolve all government, after all the private sector is the only one to decide.

The irony is that the hand of the marketplace (mentioned ONCE in the Wealth of Nations) does not mean what fans of objectivism think it does.

At times what I read in this place makes the mind reel, and bogle at the same time.

Thanks for one of those pure moments of irony.

[wocaonimabi]

34. Do not individuals have the right to spend the money they earned as they see fit?

Sure the government should fully fund all of the commons and I support it.

What the discussion is about is how a private person spends their money, do you want someone telling you how to spend your money?

I know I do not want to live that way.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. If I use public facilites, (like an airport)

and what about objectification of women, in the sexual type?

We have REGULATIONS. As I said, let's completely dissolve government. I mean completely, not just no more public infrastructure, no more Congress, or City Councils. All the way baby.

[wocaonimabi]

38. Works for me This nations needs a do over anyway

or total anarchy I can roll either way, can you?

[nadinbrzezinski]

52. You are the one advocating total anarchy

me, it is more the be careful what you wish for.

[wocaonimabi]

59. Nope not me anarchy is messy and hard on the furniture

me I am just prepared for just about anything so I will do what is necessary. Bad habit from the being in a paramilitary organization as a kid, be prepared and all that, I was just not very reverent or respectful or thrifty and a whole bunch of things scouts should be but I was more of the anti scout in the application of my knowledge. That and a fair amount of time in the US Armed Services well it gives me a very different outlook on things and what could happen in life.

[nadinbrzezinski]

60. Interesting revealing comment

Hmmm....

[WilliamPitt]

21. "Private money, who really cares what they do with it?"

Um...I do.

So should you.

[wocaonimabi]

22. Nope, their money it is none of yours or mine f-ing business what a private person does

with their money in a perfectly legal transaction.

Zero G Mammalian Protuberances is currently a legal activity and as far as I can tell everyone involved was a consenting adult. Sure the money would have been better spent at a Food Bank but it was not our money now was it?

If you care to expose how private money is spent beyond political donations go for it you are a journalist, you even have access to platforms us mere mortals do not have access too so many will read your writings on how private money is spent on private activities enabling you to earn money that I am sure you will also publically disclose how it was all spent seeing that we, the people, have a right to know.

[WilliamPitt]

30. Hm.

We care about where the Koch Brothers spend their private money. We care about where Big Tobacco, Big Oil, Big Agriculture spend their private money. Pardon me if I'm a little peeved about how Big Fashion/Sports chooses to spend their money. People are hungry and cold and in the dark. Tits In Space frankly grosses me out, for more reasons than how much money got piss-holed to get it done.

"Private money," I would argue, is one of the great evils we are dealing with today. YES,I question where and how it gets spent. So should you.

Priorities matter.

[wocaonimabi]

37. Okey-dokey

Please set the example for the rest of us and detail were you spent money your money for all of 2013.

[arcane1]

32. It's a silly thing to spend money on, and the OP reflected that opinion.

That's all there is to it.

[wocaonimabi]

51. As I expressed my opinion on his opinion, we all got em that is why we are here is it

not?

[Skittles]

54. "we"

[JVS]

27. Didn't you get flamed once here for going out for a very expensive dinner?

Should those people have been all up in your face about it because they should care how private money is spent? I thought they were wrong to give you shit about that, but you seem to be indicating otherwise. If you dislike something have the courage to say it outright rather than hide behind a facade of frugality.

[WilliamPitt]

33. Strawman, ho!

The money I spent on a friend's birthday dinner is left in the deep shade by the money spent to bring fifteen photographers and a pair of scantily-clad breasts into zero-g for a photo shoot.

Big "Private money," I would argue, is one of the great evils we are dealing with today. YES, I question where and how it gets spent. So should you.

[JVS]

41. So your private spending is off limits for criticism, but the spending of a Sports Illustrated...

photo shoot team that already has to answer to some bean counter at the office and is providing the magazine content from which they'll make a return on the investment is available for imagining how much heat for poor people it could buy? Did the heating oil company write some kind of note that says Will Pitt's money doesn't spend there?

[LanternWaste]

61. Until now, I believed even the most brain-dead..

Until fifty seconds ago, I believed even the most brain-dead, sub-literate, half-educated individual would be able to differentiate scale, agenda and means.

I was wrong.

[JVS]

62. Yeah, your sense of proportion for what a photo shoot costs is really out of whack, so you're right.

Neither Will Pitt going to a fancy night on the town nor a SI photo shoot are really that much in comparison to the kind of big money that PACs or the military toss around. That photoshoot probably cost less to create than a small cocktail party at the national convention of a major political party. This "If we can afford to put a bikini model in a plane, we can afford to heat the homes of the poor" gambit is bullshit.

The danger posed to the public by private money is not the creation of a swimsuit magazine, it's the fact that they buy our government completely.

[Warren DeMontague]

65. Hey, sorry to bother you, but I think your echo... ah, thingy is broken.

now ≠ fifty seconds ago.

Might want to check the settings.

[Feral Child]

49. Exactly n/t.

[titaniumsalute]

50. I must disagree with you

Here's an anecdote. I had a very good friend of my family who was extremely wealthy. His family built a huge alcohol distributorship over 50 years that profited huge. I have no idea what he was worth but it was multiple millions. I used to help run some of their charitable organizations. This couple spent hundreds of thousands in various charities. They were really good, humble people. I used to see him occasionally just tip a waiter or waitress $100 for a $100 meal. Very generous.

But he also liked his finer things in life as well. One thing he loved was the Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon...supposedly one of the best bourbons in the world. He'd spend as much as $2,000 a bottle sometimes. OK, he donates more money a year to charity than I'd ever make in a year but yet he also spends serious money on some finer things in his life. Should I be upset that he did this with his private money? No.

[theboss]

17. "What would this have bought" is an argument that leads to madness

All we would be buying is soylent green, blankets, and textbooks at some point, I fear.

[truebrit71]

18. Shit. I thought there would be actual space breasts in this thread...

..I feel so cheated now....



I too like boobs as well, but I've never understood the fascination with making them bounce...seems slightly daft to me...

[JVS]

23. "This looked like no fun for anyone" I disagree.

People spend over $5,000 bucks to ride on that plane. So I don't think it's reasonable to say that nobody had fun. It was most likely an interesting experience for all involved (and I'm talking about the weightlessness experience, not the nudity) https://www.gozerog.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Reservations.welcome&CFID=51514&CFTOKEN=ad15e5aca7157c2c-C7AC6832-FA37-8B34-04AE3E60BDE5C10E

And as far as price paid, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that operators of the plane let them do the shoot for free as a way to attract publicity. So most likely we're talking pilot time and jet fuel, which is something pissed away freely by millions of people doing all kinds of recreational travel.

[wocaonimabi]

29. I know if I had the cash to blow for a ride I would do it

but I don't have that sort of dough, well I could but I will need a new car soon and a few other things I really need first but if the money was burning a hole in my pocket I would do it in a heartbeat.

[Common Sense Party]

24. We're apes and we like breasts.

Even floating ones. Or something.

[Bucky]

40. I'd tap it

[Common Sense Party]

45. And then it might tap you back.

"Right turn, Clyde."

[Pretzel_Warrior]

26. smarter people would have had blue or green screen behind her

so they could incorporate awesome video footage behind the floating and spinning Kate Upton.

Missed opportunity, and we'll now probably lose out to the Russians in the boobies space race.

[Feral Child]

44. "Actress"

I've known full-breasted, athletic women and they all say that kind of activity (bouncing boobs, not specifically zero-G bounce) hurts.

A full crew for a model shoot, especially at that level, is extensive and the fares for camera operators, make-up artists, director, et al would probably purchase several herds of goats in Ethi. Our unrestricted capitalistic consumerism is a bit shameful.


I'm not picking a fight with you but c'mon, you were providing negative stimulus for a specific group, not providing "titillation".

[Feral Child]

72. Gravity

causes the bounce for earth-bound runners, but the issue is movement of the supporting tissues. That would be caused by inertia on the V/C. (A boobie at rest tends to remain at rest, etc...)

Personally, I'm not outraged. No stake in this game; I'm a small-boob kinda guy. Also, I figure depravity is an essential part of human make-up and care little for the excesses of Big Money, I just want the fuckers to quit welching on their taxes so that life isn't so difficult for the peasants.

[JVS]

46. Penn Gillete puked his damned guts out and still had a good time.

This is one of those things where you take the fact that you'll likely get ill as part of the deal.

[Feral Child]

35. Didn't enter that thread.

At the very least that exercise would seem really painful for Ms. Upton.

I'm pretty sure from what I've read it was flame-bait aimed at the HoF group; hence, my trepidation.

I'm fed up with both sides in these ridiculous gender wars and I'm forming an ignore list of the constant offenders on both sides.

Hopefully soon I won't see any of those threads.


I really hate having to apply personal censorship but in this case I consider it self defense. I've already had one "hide", another post was alerted on today but remains unhidden.

There are some very interesting folk with remarkable knowledge here and I don't want to be "collateral-ed".

You've made a very good point about the wastage of run-away consumerism.

[Whisp]

39. do you really have to say 'tits' that often?

does it make you feel brave, 13 again or gonzoish?

sorry, I'm not in a buying mood.

[wandy]

43. I agree. If nothing else this was a waist of resource, still and all............

What DO "boobs" look like in zero G? For that matter what does ones "dinges" look like in 0 G?
Ah heck, fugget about it, I'd probably be too busy messing with those 0 G droplets of Tang to notice.

You know, sometimes you really are better off not knowing.

[JVS]

47. They could have simulated this much more cheaply in a swimming pool.

[RiffRandell]

48. She seems pretty happy and can pay her rent. nt

[central scrutinizer]

53. Been done before -

Barbarella opening scene

[CFLDem]

56. Thank you sir

Your public self-flagellation has been duly noted.

Unfortunately it will never quell their empty stomachs. For the HoF are demanding and just goddesses!

[Botany]

63. Why do you hate science?

[flvegan]

66. Was it...um, cold there in "space" per chance?

Heh heh, tits. In space.

[Shankapotomus]

67. So you're against space exploration?

Why do you hate Science?

[jpak]

69. At least we're beatin' Rooshuns

USA

USA

USA

[awoke_in_2003]

70. Next up- the Clenis in space...

talk about "ermahgerd". I can envision republican heads everywhere exploding.