'The most profound experience I can imagine': Emotional William Shatner recounts space trip

CNN · 302K views · 2021 · 10:34

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Why Hacker News recommends it

HN mentions it mostly critically, calling the clip clickbait, or to point out how early the Bezos moment occurs.

What it is

A CNN segment showing William Shatner emotionally describing his Blue Origin suborbital flight to Jeff Bezos right after landing.

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What Hacker News said

Cites rhtgrg · 2023-05 · on “A good day with Jeff Bezos”

> there was more that happened before that bit It was after this bit. Probably when Bezos realized the optics. > or which was edited cynically, got an inaccurate impression Ironic to be posting an inaccurate comment, while lamenting inaccuracy... Here, you can see just how early this happens: [this video]

Critical ryandrake · 2021-10 · on “The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Returning from Space”

The clip [1] was kind of gross. Shatner is standing there, trying to make a thoughtful, serious, genuine statement about his feelings, and Bezos is repeatedly turning his head away, looking at everything else, like a kid distracted by an iPad. The champaign popping and the women in the big sunglasses yelling "wooooooo" like they're at a dance club was just icing on the cake. Finally, after all the horseplay was done, he turned back and gave the guy a chance to articulate. 1: [this video]

Critical vjerancrnjak · 2022-10 · on “William Shatner experienced profound grief in space. It was the overview effect”

There's a longer video that shows he listened to him until the end. I think the one you linked is just clickbait. [this video]