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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by javajosh on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:53PM (#28856794)
I agree one shouldn't be too hard on Bezos in contrast to Shatner. Shatner is an actor, an artist, clearly in touch with his emotions and open to the experience in ways that an engineer/industrialist is not. If anything, I think Bezos should get extra credit for having the good sense to invite Shatner up there.

It's like what Jodie Foster said in Contact - "they should have sent a poet." And now, they did.

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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by eurasiantiger on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @04:07PM (#28856997)
It’s like watching a developer party with the managers.
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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by snowwindwaves on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @09:33PM (#28859581)
You'll be a manager one day
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Re:The Overview Effect – William Shatner's Words After Retur... by Willish42 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:05AM (#28860404)
While Bezos certainly has a different mindset as an engineer/industrialist, space is obviously a pretty big deal to him.

Reading more about his background (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/what-je... is a really great read IMO) and contrasting that with how he acts around Shatner in the video really shows how uninspired his portrayal today seems by comparison.

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