Shatner marvels at Blue Origin flight frenzy, 'finite' Earth

It's one thing to portray somebody who goes to outer space, it's another thing to actually do it. And seeing the Big Blue Ball reveals continents, oceans, mountains, etc. and no national boundaries. it's just one planet populated by 8 billion people of great diversity but one sentinent species.

starpunkToday  08:16 am JST

it's just one planet populated by 8 billion people of great diversity but one sentinent species.

Are you trying to say that allegedly having a longer intestine doesn't make you a unique species all of your own?

Good on Shatner, he never really takes things too seriously and has always had an almost childlike ability to connect with people.

He only went to 'Near space' or the lower mesosphere, more than likely. Going into space is still, indubitably, a death sentence due to the intense levels of unfiltered radiation present.

I'd like to see his programme, though.

it's just one planet populated by 8 billion people of great diversity but one sentinent species.

And yet, we are all so divided.

Good on Shatner, he never really takes things too seriously and has always had an almost childlike ability to connect with people.

WTH is wrong with curiosuty, imagination and 'childlike wonder'? It's what drives minds to invent, create, express and improve. It's what has stoked the engines of the progress of humanity since our neanderthal ancestors hunted the mastrodons.

Besides, what's wrong with chasing your dreams? What's wrong with 'holding on tight' to them as ELO told guys my age when I was 15?

bass4funkDec. 15  11:47 pm JST

it's just one planet populated by 8 billion people of great diversity but one sentinent species.

And yet, we are all so divided.

John Glenn, being the third man to go to space said the same thing. He saw the planet Earth while he orbited it. No USA, no USSR, just one topaz planet that is home for us all. People didn't build it, God did.

And it gives a whole new perspective on things. Other astronauts have probably felt the same. Apparently Shatner realized that. If I were to go to space I probably would too.