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Comment by lukewrites | Hacker News Reader

Honest question that I'm sure sounds snarky: Why was Bezos in a flight suit if he wasn't flying?

Theater and/or ego. Same reason for the President to fly out to an aircraft carrier just off the US coast and pose for a bunch of photos while wearing a flight suit, before giving the infamous MISSION ACCOMPLISHED speech. Or for a different world leader to ensure that photos of him shirtless on horseback make it to the media from time to time.

Or you know, it could be that he has invested $10 billion into building Blue Origin over 21 years and likes his company and wants to wear the uniform because he's proud of it (even if you think lowly of it). Bezos is very well known to be a space nerd.

So what.

> Or you know, it could be that he has invested $10 billion into building Blue Origin over 21 years and likes his company and wants to wear the uniform because he's proud of it (even if you think lowly of it).

That makes as much sense as a NFL team owner suiting up with helmet and shoulder pads just because his team is playing.

I guess Bezos is free to dress up as an astronaut whenever he feels like it and gets out of bed, but is that something that happens whenever Blue Origin doesn't summon the media to do a press release?

Or another one taking a doomy photo with a bible in a church in the middle of a protest.

Because landed space capsules can be kinda hazardous?

Is this sentence asking a question?

Is a rhetoric question asking a question? Although, I suppose the choice of punctuation was more akin to tonal inflection than rhetoric.

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