![]() ![]() Plain old rockets, lacking any glans-like tip. Then I’ll engage in some personal recollections of the visceral pleasure of rockets and rocket launches (and that will take me to the Flash Gordon movie serials, with this visceral pleasure plus another: the physical presence of Buster Crabbe). I will now go on to note that it could easily be still more phallic than it is already. The point is that all rockets are phallic what’s notable about New Shephard is that visually it’s even more phallic than the rest. ![]() Or reformulate the whole business so that you can talk about the head of a penis, metaphorically present in New Shepard but not in other rockets.] So instead of tumescent shape: glans-like tip. But glans-like would do, and then Woodward wouldn’t have had to get to the relevant feature of the rocket indirectly, by dragging in tumescent. glandis) ‘acorn’ was also borrowed as the originally anatomical term gland, which then became part of ordinary English and so pretty much swamps any adjective you’d want to create for penis-head glans). What Woodward wants to pick out as the notable feature of New Shepard is its bulbous tip, analogous to the glans, or head, of a penis.Īnd that turns out to be hard to do, since the English anatomical term glans seems to have no adjectival form (no doubt a consequence of the fact that Latin glans (gen.sg. So journalist Woodward’s tumescent shape is technically correct for his purposes - New Shepard’s long stiff shaft does indeed resemble the shaft of a specifically erect penis, so its head would be visible - but other rockets (almost all of them, to my knowledge), also with long stiff shafts, lack a visible head-like element. If the penis is uncircumcised, the head is hidden when the penis is flaccid (that is, soft), visible when it’s tumescent (that is, erect, or hard). If the penis is circumcised, the head is visible all the time. [* Every penis, whether flaccid or tumescent, has a glans (or head). New Shepard’s characteristic shape was designed to optimize cabin space for up to six passengers and maximize the rocket’s stability when coming back to Earth, according to Pedro Llanos, an engineer and professor of spaceflight operations at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. ![]() The New Shepard rocket’s tumescent shape was low-hanging fruit to social-media users who were quick to point out the craft’s phallic design and wonder whether that design meant its billionaire passenger was compensating for something.īut experts say this suborbital sausage fest was anything but accidental. ![]() (#1) body of rocket : cabin :: shaft of penis : glans (entertainingly, glans (of the penis) < Latin glans ‘acorn’) you can watch the CNBC coverage of the launch on YouTube hereįrom Business Insider, “There are very solid engineering reasons why Jeff Bezos’ rocket looks exactly like, you know, that”, by Aylin Woodward on 7/22:īlue Origin founder Jeff Bezos flew to the edge of space Tuesday in a company rocket that had a bulbous passenger capsule sitting atop a tall, narrow booster shaft. The symbolic resonance, of a rocket launch to active phallicity, to a penis rapidly tumescing and ejaculating, has been around ever since there have been rockets, but New Shepard makes a significant advance towards realism in this symbolic domain: the rocket looks a lot more like a penis than the rockets that have launched before it.Ī still shot, “A view of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket” (photo from Blue Origin): And the imagery of this particular rocket, Jeff Bezos’s New Shepard, was fresh and noteworthy. The story is a month old, but interest in its central element, a rocket to space, is evergreen. It was also the first crewed launch for Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.Īboard the ship with Bezos were his brother, Mark, along with an 82-year-old former test pilot and an 18-year-old student.(Well, the topic is phallicity, and there will be anatomical details - discussed with anatomical terminology rather than street language, but some might still find the posting edgy.) I can't wait to see what it's going to do to me," Bezos said.īezos' launch, while unbelievably memeworthy, made history Tuesday as the first unpiloted suborbital flight with an all-civilian crew. Related: "People who go into space say that they come back changed. Other memes of the day included comparing Bezos' appearance to fictional characters who explored space, including Jean-Luc Picard from "Star Trek: The Next Generation," as well as Dr. User wrote, "Is it just me or is Jeff Bezos' #BlueOrigin rocket look like a weiner? Someone's compensating." Another user, posted, "The biggest compensating for something in the history of compensating for somethings." ![]()
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