Others have remarked on Bezos’ cowboy hat and noticeably taut facial features. But no, really, it was all the internet could talk about: space dick thrusting vigorously toward the dark unknown. Specifically, the shape was compared to images of Dr Evil’s rocket from The Spy Who Shagged Me, the 1999 Austin Powers film that features the villain blasting off in a penis-shaped spaceship. New Shepard, the reusable suborbital rocket system, looks like a dick. Thankfully this is my job, so I’m covered. It has inspired a lot of jokes and drawn comparisons to the 1999 Austin Powers movie, The Spy Who Shagged Me and all the jokes are pretty NSFW.
Not to mention the time he used police violence to harass Black workers in Alabama and concocted fake Twitter profiles of Amazon workers in a hilariously bad attempt to defend the company.Įnvironmental disaster and gross displays of wealth aside, many people have pointed out the similarities between Bezos’ rocket and a phallus. But what really captured everyone’s attention was the interesting shape of the rocket. Of course, he failed to mention the company’s dire working conditions, which include employees reportedly having to pee in bottles because the bathroom breaks they are granted don’t allow them enough time to travel there and back, and heat map surveillance to detect if too many employees are gathering in the same place at the same time. Accompanied by fellow billionaire and brother Mark Bezos, astronautical pioneer Wally Funk, and a Dutch physics student, the crew flew just outside the Earth’s atmosphere for a grand total of 11 minutes, emitting more carbon monoxide than a car would in centuries of driving.īezos thanked Amazon employees and customers after landing, saying, “You guys paid for all of this”. Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest person and the founder of Amazon, blazed to space aboard a 60-foot tall penis rocket yesterday (July 20).